Cassotto

A cassotto is a 'sound chamber' within some more expensive accordions that contains one or more reed blocks of the treble side of the instrument.

The firm Öllerer built a diatonic instrument with cassotto without register switches and two 8' (M) reed sets.

Making a cassotto for diatonic instruments is quite more difficult due to the different reed plate arrangement.

In traditional German accordion making, the cassotto barely plays a role.

In those models the reed blocks are arranged in one plane like with ordinary accordions.