Bonjour ! I'm Bernard Loffet, diatonic accordion maker and tuner and also woodwind instruments repairman (My company is : Atelier de Réparation des Instruments à Vent : ARIV).
I mainly play diatonic "button" accordion (sometimes called squeeze box, DBA or melodion), solo for dance music at fest-noz (the folk dance evenings in Brittany, where 100 to 2000 people dance together...). . My first CD solo, "Moteur !" issued in July 2005...
I also play "piston" (oboe) and biniou kozh (breton traditionnal bagpipe) with Diroll (fest-noz).
I played within several sailors song, french chanson and fest-noz groups : Nordet, Capstern and "Long John Silver", chants de marins, with Gaëlle Fourcade in "Anches Hantées", a duo "Loffet-Runigo", also as accompanier in chanson française for "les Rives", Marie Bontemps, Patrice Edmont...
I work as sound ingeneer, mainly for Fest-Noz here in Bretagne, also at the "Grand Bal de l'Europe" and "Musicalies en Sologne". I've been for several years the soundman of the group Tan ba'n Ti.
I've been accordion teacher, at the music schools of Caudan, Rostrenen and Rédéné, with more than 60 students the last years. I've stop teaching (not enough time), I only teach for workshops (accordion repairs). I have written two books, collections of partitions and tablatures for dances from Brittany and sea shanties
 My two daughters, Maïwenn & Enora, in concert at Anost (Fête de la Vielle, center of France). Their duo is called "Gwenili" |
4, rue commandant Cousteau, F - 56850 Caudan, Bretagne - France Tél : +33 297.05.68.92 Fax : pas de fax Leave me a message... |  My mother, Josette, is céramist. Visit her pages ! |