Pavane: Pickups can be added to many (most) instruments (including accordion, melodeon, fiddle etc)

That's interesting. The melodeon I use in the band is a lovely 3-row Castagnari. If I had a pickup fitted do you think it would lower the re-sale value of the instrument? I have a Saltarelle Irish Bouebe too but that isn't so useful for 'banding' so there wouldn't be much point in having that one modified unless I started using it in the band more.

It sounds a little bit like vandalism to me and I would be awfully reluctant to butcher my Castagnari without very good cause, but if it didn't (a) damage the melodeon in any way and (b) affect the re-sale value then it would be worth considering.

The next question, of course, is where or by whom would I get this done?