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BUY & SELL
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• Buy
& Sell home page
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TUNE-O-TRON
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• The
Tune-O-Tron home page
• Search
• Tunes Message Board
• Add a tune to the database
• Your personal tunebook
• Register to create your own tunebook or add tunes to the database
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DISCUSSION FORUMS
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• General
Discussion Forum: anything not related to Buy & Sell or Tunes
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BUYER'S GUIDE
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• Concertina
Buyer's Guide: reviews, links, comments, photos, and more
• Buyer's Guide section on English Concertinas
• Concertina Weights
• Concertina Cases: New is Often Better, by Randy
Merris
• Time for an English?, by Roger Digby
• Choosing a Chromatic Row Layout On Anglo,
by Ken Coles
• If It's Not A C/G, What Is It? [Keys],
by Ken Coles
• Wheatstone Anglos, numbers 50,000+, by Bob Gaskins
• Dating Your Concertina - A Summary Guide, by Wes Williams
• Dating Lachenal Anglo Concertinas: A
More Accurate Method, by William Meredith
• A Thumbnail Classification of Concertinas, by
Dan Richardson
• Another Opinion On Accordion-Reeded
Concertinas, by Ken Coles
• Of Reeds, Shoes, and Acoustics,
by Dana Johnson
• Concertina vs. Accordion Reeds, by
Dana Johnson
• A "German Standard Concertina",
by John Dallas
• Inside a Crabb, by Mark Stayton
• Concertina Guild, by Frank Edgley
• Some Commentary by Wes Williams
• Hayden Duet Resource List, by Ken Coles
• Psst, buddy -- wanna buy a concertina? Concertinas
and internet auctions and sales.
• A Photo Gallery
• Mr. Coles goes to The Button Box: A shocking
pictorial
• A Tale of Two Jeffries: How Paul went
from one Lachenal to two Jeffries in under a month
• C&R Dipper "Cotswold" anglo concertina
review
• Anatomy of an anglo concertina
• Info and photos of a 49-key Jeffries
• Mystery Lachenal
• Mystery Wheatstone
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MUSIC
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• Music
Home Page: reviews, links, sound clips, and more
• "The Incredible Concertina" concert photos and report
• Scan Tester's "I never played to many posh dances"; review by Roger Digby
• Gearóid O hAllmhuráin Concert (1996): the page that launched this site
• Gift Shop: a portion of every sale goes to help support this web site -- thanks for your support!
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LEARNING TO PLAY
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• Learning to Play Home Page
• Advice for Newcomers to Intensive Music School, by Ken Coles
• Chord Relationships of the English Concertina,
by William Meredith
• Color-Coded Button Layouts for C/G and G/D 30-Button Anglo Concertinas using the Wheatstone / Lachenal System, by Mark Stayton
• The Anglo Concertina: A Handbook of Tunes and Methods for Irish Traditional Music
• "The Concertina And How To Play
It", book review by David Wallace
• Portsmouth, N.H. Maritime Festival report from 2003 by Ken Coles
• Scandinavian Squeeze-in 2000 report,
by Samantha Boorer
• A report on the "Annual Gathering of the
West Country Concertina Players" (Kilve Court, Somerset UK), by Alan Corkett
• Some Observations on Witney, by Jon
McNamara
• Noel Hill Irish Concertina School 1998 Report
• Workshop by Bob Tedrow at Chicago, June 2000,
by Ken Coles
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AROUND THE WORLD
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• Links
• Sponsors
• Pirates and Concertinas by Rhomylly B. Forbes
• Concertina Bands
• Concertina Museum
• Concertina with PA layout by Jeannie Grassi
• The Concertina in Children's Literature by Pam Berardino
• English Country Music, by Roger
Digby
• H. Crabb and Son, concertina makers, by Roger
Digby
• How I Acquired my Crabb, by Roger
Digby
• Anglo Concertinas in South Africa
• A New Duet System from Jim Lucas
• A concertina story by Lloyd McDaniel.
• Photos by Peter Laban.
• More photos by Peter Laban.
• Death of the busker: saddest song in town by Raymond Travers.
• Confessions of a concertina player in Baghdad by Len Rheaume.
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REPAIR & MAINTENANCE
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• Repair Home Page
• Bellows Patching, by Bob DeVellis
• Correction of wrist position on Anglo concertina using foam pads, by Ken Coles
• Repairing wood handles whose holes are too worn to hold a wood screw., by Ken Coles
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LAST, BUT NOT LEAST
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• The Official CONCERTINA.net Newsletter
• Contribute Content to CONCERTINA.net (please!)
• About Your Host
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