Hello! The accordion you see above is one of the instruments I make. My name is Bernard Loffet, and I am an instrument maker in Caudan, near Lorient, in Brittany, France. In my workshop we make DBA (Diatonic Button Accordions) and also repair, rent or sell musical instruments, mainly wind instruments such as clarinets, oboes, saxophones, flutes, bassoons...

This kind of accordion is called "Melodion" or diatonic accordion, and it's mainly used in folk music. It's an easy to handle, easy to play diatonic instrument, that works like the harmonica : when you push a button when pushing the bellows, you get a note, but when you push the same button when pulling the bellows, you get a different one.


In my workshop, Gautier, Michel and I make 13 melodion models : Student, Graet e Breizh and Pro range. You can listen to the sound of my accordions by downloading sound files on the MP3 page




I am a musician, and I play French & Breton music, mainly for "fest-noz" : traditional dance evenings.


Here are my CD's "Moteur !" and "Action !", traditional dance music and songs from Brittany !


With Pascal Cranga, a friend of mine, also an instrument maker, we created a line of cases and bags for musical instruments, classical and traditional :

I also make a professional PA system for accordion (stage microphones).