Brand New Bayan Tula 210 Converter Free Bass Stradella Russian Chromatic Button Accordion, High Class Musical Instrument, 120 Bass, BN-53 Very Beautiful and Powerful sound!

First I would like to appreciate the honestly and generosity of the dealer. It seemed that the last three-row bayan was damaged before shipping so they just upgraded it to a five-row one (with the same note range) without additional charges. For the actual instrument, I would say it might be the best for this price range, in the sense that the focus of the crafting is mostly on sound production and mechanics, as discussed below: 1. The tremble part has very clear yet rich sound. i.e. richer and softer than a typical three-row bayan you would find, but still very clear, unlike the metallic richness of the sound of a french-style musette accordion. 2. The bass is Russian-style heavy (which is a my personal favorite) yet is very sensitive to the bellow movement. It is amazing how easily you can control the volume/expression of both free bass notes and stradella bass notes. 3. The bellow and valves are well sealed. And internal mechanisms work really smoothly. 4. It is surprisingly light. Despite having the free bass system on the left hand, you can still effortlessly play while standing. Meanwhile, the caveat is that there are typically flaws for a more economical instrument (in its own species that is. Accordions are expensive blin). In the case of this bayan, there are two most noticeable issues I found: 1. buttons don't line up on the same level. It is not noticeable when looking from the front but very noticeable when look down on the button panel when wearing the instrument. This does not effect the mechanism however, and seems to be a common thing for button accordions made in Russia for some reason. 2. unlike these very sensitive bass notes, tremble notes have variations in sensitivity. i.e. the threshold air pressure for producing sound from each note somewhat varies (which is not correlative to the pitch). The problem of those notes that have high threshold is that, when you are also playing melody lines on bass notes, which consumes a lot of air, those tremble notes become very faint (and only these few notes), creating subtle yet noticeable unwanted changes in dynamic. In general, I would recommend this bayan if you are playing accordion for fun and are also interested in practicing with a converter system (or you plan to get a full-sized profession 106/120/13/7 accordion and need something to practice before saving up enough money).