Hello ! Well, my work is quite unusual, and is difficult to describe. My name is Bernard Loffet, and I live in Caudan, near Lorient, in Brittany, France. I make and repair musical instruments in my workshop, mainly wind instruments like clarinet, oboe, saxophone, flute, bassoon... and I make and repair accordions.

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 bellow, you get a note, but when you push the same button when pulling the bellow, you get a different one.


I make 8 melodion models, from study to "professional". You can now listen to the sound of my accordions by downloading sound files on the MP3/RealAudio page



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


Here is my CD "Moteur !", traditional dance music and songs from Brittany !


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

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