About Rossetti Accordions
Our Story
In 1995, a father-son team walked away from the aerospace industry and opened an accordion workshop. The father had spent decades as a quality control engineer with an MIT mechanical engineering degree. The son had managed production schedules for aerospace contractors. Both played accordion.
They founded Rossetti with a specific frustration in mind: students and weekend musicians could choose between $150 toys that broke within months or $2,000 professional instruments that sat in closets when the motivation faded. Rossetti aimed at the middle — instruments built with real materials (basswood bodies, sheepskin bellows, leather straps) at prices a high school student's family could afford.
Three decades later, Rossetti offers 12 models across diatonic button and piano accordion formats. The line covers FBE, GCF, and FBbEb tunings for conjunto, norteno, and regional folk traditions. The Constantine series, featuring German-made reeds, represents the top of the range for players who started on a Rossetti and stayed with the brand.
Our Mission & Values
Engineering Precision
Rossetti's founders brought aerospace quality control discipline to instrument building. Each accordion undergoes the same inspection rigor that the team applied to aircraft components — bellows compression testing, button actuation consistency, and reed voicing checks before the case closes.
Accessible Music
A $2,000 price tag keeps accordion out of reach for most families. Rossetti holds the line between material quality and student budgets — basswood bodies, sheepskin bellows, and leather straps at prices that let a parent say yes to a teenager's first instrument.
Cultural Heritage
Conjunto, norteno, zydeco, and folk music traditions survive when young players pick up the accordion. Rossetti builds instruments in the tunings those traditions demand — FBE, GCF, FBbEb — so the next generation has an affordable path into their family's music.
Complete Experience
An accordion without a case gets dented. An accordion without straps sits on a shelf. Rossetti ships every model with a locking hard case and padded shoulder straps because an instrument that never leaves the house never gets played.