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SteveS

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  • Birthday February 7

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    Nordic and English traditional music and song.
    I undertake concertina restorations.
    I play EC: Tenor-Treble Aeola, Baritone-Treble Aeola, Baritone Aeola, Bass, Miniature EC.
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    Asti, Piemonte, Northern Italy

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  1. Thanks Stephen, for your reply. This BT I have is super instrument and a great player, but has some terrible wear/cosmetic imperfections - I am considering repairing those. The instrument is obviously well played - and being in what looks like A=435Hz pitch, I wonder if it has spent some of its life playing 'on the Continent'. Is it possibly a Grock concertina? We'll probably never know - it would certainly fit with Grock's era - although from the films I've seen Grock played Lachenals. I'm considering full restoration, but given that it seems to be in A=435 and looks like it may have been fully retuned before, I'm considering leaving it in that pitch - I'm not sure whether the reeds would take a retune to A=440.
  2. Price reduced to €3400 This is a lovely instrument and plays well. You won't be disappointed. An instrument like this will cost well over €4000 from a well-known UK dealer (and you'll have additional VAT and import duties to pay into the EU - at least another €1000). This instrument is in Italy, so no VAT and duties to pay within EU. PM me for more pics and info.
  3. I received notification from eBay a few days ago that I'd sold a concertina I'd advertised there. The concertina is in Italy with me, and the buyer's shipping address is in UK. The buyer has apparently paid in full but the funds are being held by eBay in what looks like an escrow function. I wrote to the buyer pointing out that to receive the concertina in UK he will be liable to a considerable amount of VAT and import duties (thanks to Brexit). IMO, although I priced the concertina fairly, the additional VAT and import duties will result in it costing more than it's worth. I wrote to the buyer asking him how he wished to proceed, and offering him the option to cancel the purchase if he wished. He didn't reply to that message. A day later I sent him another similar message, to which he replied about 8 hours later. And here is the curious part - he replied in Spanish. Not being a Spanish speaker, I ran the message through Google translate, and the content of the message made no sense in the context of the messages I'd sent him about proceeding or cancelling the purchase. I asked a Spanish speaker I know and they couldn't understand the message either. This has me wondering: - why pay in full for the concertina and not at least follow up on my messages with a relevant response? - is this some variation on the empty box scam? - is the eBay escrow function some kind of scam? I've written to him again asking for clarification - in English or Spanish - and have so far not received a response. Generally I'm feeling uneasy now about sending the concertina - I'll give him one more day then I'll cancel the order.
  4. I have a flutina and the one thing that really got me stuck was the fact that the instrument plays in the opposite sense to the one-row melodeon - that is a push note on the one-row is pull note on the flutina. A project I have in mind is to make new reed pans and arrange the reeds so that it plays as a one-row melodeon.
  5. Having made both flat and raised ends, raised ends are harder to make and much more labour intensive.
  6. I am selling another instrument from my collection. This one is metal ended 56 key Tenor-Treble Aeola - s/n 26236 Newly serviced and tuned to A=440Hz. One thing that's unusual about this concertina is the low D#3 on the left-hand side is tuned to a Bb2. Showing the signs of a life well-lived, the instrument plays well - as expected from an Aeola. The price reflects the cosmetic imperfections. Located in Italy. Price €3750 €3400
  7. Bump I have the brass receiver plates. What I'm after now are 2x vintage (patina is a bonus) thumb strap screws for an Aeola.
  8. Hello everyone I am now offering concertina repair and restoration services to the EU. All types of work undertaken. Since I'm based in Italy, EU players can avoid the crazy import situation to/from UK as a result of Brexit. Please PM with your details of your repair requirements. Steve
  9. Hello everyone I am now offering concertina repair and restoration services to the EU. All types of work undertaken. Since I'm based in Italy, EU players can avoid the crazy import situation to/from UK as a result of Brexit. Please PM with your details of your repair requirements. Steve
  10. Sorry to hear this. I met Ian in the early 1990s when I lived in Edinburgh - I went to visit him several times in Kilmarnock to play and chat concertina. I recall Ian excelled at playing the Anglo. A sad loss to the concertina world.
  11. The Brothers Webb used ECs with a similar range as the one exhibited here. Maybe Stephen Chambers can offer an insight into why they played instruments with a guitar range, but one octave higher. Are there any other Jones ECs out there with this range I wonder. I wish I knew more about my instrument - I can only speculate. Somehow I also need to get the reed pans out - first I need to determine which glue has been used to glue them in.
  12. Good point - I recall that Jones marketed 'broad reeds' and not long scale (I blame the Christmas sherry having addled my brain). I should measure the reeds against an Aeola and/or New Model/Edeophone. What's interesting about this 'tina is that the note range I believe is exactly the same as a guitar, but 1 octave higher - I need to verify this too at some point.
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