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Above:
K1, K2 and K3 at the Press Conference and Presentation
Ceremony
30 January 2013 - Ikaalinen, Finland
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K1
- 'Birth' with customed designed grill by Henriikka and
hand carved by Aaro Luukinen
K1, the world's first Kauri accordion will be housed at
the Dargaville Museum (New Zealand)
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K2
- 'Departure' with
customed designed grill by Henriikka and hand carved by
Aaro Luukinen
K2 will be housed in Ikaalinen (Finland)
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K3
- 'Growth' with
customed designed grill by Henriikka and hand carved by
Aaro Luukinen
K3 will be housed in New York, NY (USA)
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Aaro
Luukinen presenting the world's first Kauri Accordion
- K1 to Kevin Friedrich,
with Kimmo Mattila at the International Press Conference,
30 January 2013
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Above
left: Kevin Friedrich with K2, in a picture the Press
named 'Two Dargaville Kiwis'
Above right: Aaro Luukinen with his creation K2
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Kevin
Friedrich, Kimmo Mattila and Aaro Luukinen perform a traditional
Finnish Waltz for the Press Conference
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Kauri
Accordion Team: Kimmo Mattila (Project Manager in Finland),
Kevin Friedrich,
Aaro Luukinen (Artisian and teacher at IKATA), the late
Jarmo Salin (Teacher of the IKATA Department of Design),
Joni Liukkonen (Director of Ikaalinen College of Crafts
and Design - IKATA) and
Tapio Nysten (Head teacher of the IKATA accordion department)
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Above
and below: Some examples of the many Press articles in
New Zealand and Finland
following the journey of the Kauri Accordion Project
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Above
and below: Some examples of the many Press articles in
New Zealand and Finland
following the journey of the Kauri Accordion Project
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Above:
Some examples of the many Press articles following the
release of the Kauri accordions including
the Cover feature of the Hanuri magazine, the national publication of the Finnish Accordion Association
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Kevin
and Aaro with K1 and K3 at the Accordion House in Ikaalinen,
Finland
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Arriving
some years earlier in the snow as sections of raw Kauri
wood, now crafted into three beautiful instruments K3,
K1 and K2 are pictured in the snow once again, as they
prepare to make the journey to their new homes.
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Contact
for the Accordion Gems Exhibition: Kevin Friedrich
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