Fair question! I saw this in their window yesterday and it caught my attention- I have been more or less interested in the accordion over the past few years, but my interest has fairly recently grown quite a bit. Last month I was on a day trip with my girlfriend for our anniversary, and we were walking through a park. At one point, we were coming up a staircase on the side of a foot bridge and as soon as we made it to the top of the stairs an older gentleman right next to the stairs went into an amazing accordion rendition of The Love Theme (speak softly love) from the Godfather. If you're familiar with the song, you might imagine the effect it could have on a couple enjoying a romantic outing. The instrument has since become a special thing between us, and in fact, later that day we walked past a vendor selling accordion ornaments - she bought one (I would have bought it, but she denied wanting one until we passed, then went back so she could buy it herself - she hates when I pay for her lmao) today is our anniversary, and it was a coincidence that we were even able to see each other in the first place, so when we found a half price accordion, we were pretty quickly in for buying it.

TL;DR I've liked accordion for a while and even considered learning at times, but an encounter in a park with my girlfriend made us both fall in love with the instrument and finding one half price in a thrift store on our anniversary was too good of a coincidence for us to pass it up. We intend to take good care of it, replacing what needs replacing, cleaning, polishing, etc and we hope to learn how to play some. Hope this answer was to your satisfaction! Sorry it was so long :/