Hi there,
I just bought a new 30-key English concertina on Ebay. It was a cheap one, but I'm so far happy with it. I am really surprised that, even after only a few weeks of practice, I can control it already quite good.
But I found out there is a difference in the layout this instrument has, compared to the layouts in my instruction books and on the websites cited in the previous thread. These sources state that the two middle rows contain the notes of C major, no flats or sharps, and that the sharps and flats are located each of the outer rows. Seems logic.
But, if I play tunes going higher or lower than the central ocatve, they start sounding funny. After some looking I found out that for my instrument outside the central octave some of the accidentals, like high fis and low bes, are on the middle rows, while the natural high f and low b are in the outer rows!
Has anyone seen this before / is it dangerous?
Toon