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Wolverton Concertinas: Full Review


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Hi all.

 

As promised, you will find my full review of Jake Middleton-Metcalfe's new concertinas here. As you will see I like them a lot and consider them to be excellent value for money, Have a listen to the recordings; the sound comes through well. These instruments deserve to do well.

 

Chris

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Thanks for this. As an EC player I'd certainly love to see what he might do with that layout. The reeds seem much less accordion like than other instruments I have heard, but that impression is based on long term memories which are notoriously inaccurate.

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...full review of Jake Middleton-Metcalfe's new concertinas here..

 

Interesting review, thank you. The recordings sound very nice indeed.

 

...the Wolverton G/D 1368 grm...

 

As a comparator, my Marcus De-Luxe 30-button G/D kicks in at 1.4Kg.

 

Roger

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Nice job, Chris. But is the picture of the reed pan edge-on deliberately upside-down?

 

Null concept. A reed pan detached from its instrument is unplayable and hence right side / wrong side up are irrelevant. I chose the side which seemed to me gave a good clear idea of what is going on. That's my story and I'm sticking to it ...

 

Chris

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I for one love it when reviewers offer a perspective I might not have otherwise considered :) Thank you, Chris, for a solid review! And it's great to see that this concertina looks good no matter which way you look at it.

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David's right on that. Also, if you look inside the big MacCanns and other instruments with lots of reeds you'll find reeds all over the place. And for my pièce de résistance may I refer you to the Lachenal Accordiaphone:-

 

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Jeffries 38-button anglos have one reed in the center of the reedpan on each side, and Jeffries 40+-button anglos have several. I suspect this was commonplace on 36-button and larger Wheatstone anglos as well.

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A nice looking and sounding instrument, I am jealous of the superb fret design. I also enjoyed the playing of the sample tunes. Re reeds in the centre of the reed pan, I have a 40 button Jeffries and a 35 button Lachenal both of which have internal reeds. My 32 button concertinas have one internal reed and the 35 button two. All instruments have their internal reeds in the bass. However on all instruments the internal reeds sound slightly 'different' compared to the external reeds. I don't know why, maybe because they are more directly under the cupped hand?

 

David

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Chris your Accordiaphone is very fun to play

 

On the subject of weight, this is a small and almost pedantic side note but: the instruments I sell are A WHOLE 40 GRAMS LIGHTER! Than the instruments in this review.

 

This is due to a tapped brass bar behind the fretwork which allows the hand rests to be removed without removing the whole end (each hand rest is held on with two bolts) so I can put different sized/shaped hand rests onto the instrument for people to try out. These instruments are the only ones to have this feature as they are the display models.

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