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Good Wheatstone Anglo on Ebay

#1 User is offline   dave shapiro 

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Posted 17 June 2009 - 07:21 PM

I've just listed this pre-war Wheatstone anglo on ebay. Item number: 190315378936

Metal ends, steel reeds in dovetailed frames - one of the better ones.

http://cgi.ebay.com/...alenotsupported

I've just added 2 recordings of this concertina to the ebay listing. Recorded today in my kitchen; the player is a friend, who wants to remain anonymous.

All the best,
Dave

This post has been edited by dave shapiro: 22 June 2009 - 12:02 PM


#2 User is offline   Warcorrespondent 

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Posted 18 June 2009 - 07:17 AM

View Postdave shapiro, on Jun 17 2009, 08:21 PM, said:

I've just listed this Wheatstone anglo on ebay. Item number: 190315378936

Metal ends, steel reeds in dovetailed frames - one of the better ones.

http://cgi.ebay.com/...alenotsupported

All the best,
Dave


Dave are you in Ireland?

#3 User is offline   Azalin 

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Posted 18 June 2009 - 07:21 AM

You can simply look at his eBay entry... he's in County Clare!

#4 User is offline   dave shapiro 

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Posted 18 June 2009 - 09:06 AM

i am indeed in co. clare, and it's currently lashing it down!

warcorrespondent, please p.m. me.

#5 User is offline   dave shapiro 

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Posted 22 June 2009 - 12:08 PM

I've just added 2 recordings of this concertina to the ebay listing. Recorded today in my kitchen; the player is a friend, who wants to remain anonymous. No e.q. or f.x., only natural kitchen reverb!

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Posted 22 June 2009 - 04:01 PM

View Postdave shapiro, on Jun 22 2009, 01:08 PM, said:

I've just added 2 recordings of this concertina to the ebay listing. Recorded today in my kitchen; the player is a friend, who wants to remain anonymous. No e.q. or f.x., only natural kitchen reverb!


Tell your friend he/she's got very nice phrasing! First tune is The Skylark, second is Leitrim's Fancy (I think), the jig version of Sword in Hand?

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Posted 22 June 2009 - 06:39 PM

View Postdave shapiro, on Jun 18 2009, 10:06 AM, said:

i am indeed in co. clare, and it's currently lashing it down!

warcorrespondent, please p.m. me.


Dave I have no idea what p.m. is! However, I am interested.

#8 User is offline   dave shapiro 

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Posted 22 June 2009 - 08:53 PM

warcorresponent - oh, sorry - p.m. = personal message. to do that, you click on my user name on this forum, scroll to the bottom of my profile page, and click "send message".
alternatively, you could send me a message on ebay. also click on my user name there.


azalin - i'll pass on the compliment. thanks for the names too. i knew that was the skylark - i play that tune! - just didn't occur to me at the time. i wasn't intending using those as file names, just forgot they would appear like that on box.net.

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Posted 29 June 2009 - 01:28 AM

Sold for $3050 US, which seems rather low for a pre-WW2 Wheatstone Anglo. Any idea why? Is it because the serial numbers for the ends and reed pans don't match? Or is there something that I'm missing here?

Daniel

View Postdave shapiro, on Jun 17 2009, 05:21 PM, said:

I've just listed this pre-war Wheatstone anglo on ebay. Item number: 190315378936

Metal ends, steel reeds in dovetailed frames - one of the better ones.

http://cgi.ebay.com/...alenotsupported

I've just added 2 recordings of this concertina to the ebay listing. Recorded today in my kitchen; the player is a friend, who wants to remain anonymous.

All the best,
Dave

Daniel Hersh
near Oakland, California

#10 User is offline   Chris Timson 

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Posted 29 June 2009 - 02:48 AM

Could the recession finally be catching up with conertinas? In another thread I found myself wondering at what seems to me to be a low price for a Jones G/D.

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Posted 29 June 2009 - 06:32 AM

View PostChris Timson, on Jun 29 2009, 03:48 AM, said:

Could the recession finally be catching up with conertinas? In another thread I found myself wondering at what seems to me to be a low price for a Jones G/D.

Chris

These instruments with suspected mixed heritage or even suspect heritage do tend to attract fewer people and hence lower prices. The perspex buttons and 8-fold bellows would suggest a South African history. The only Wheatstone instrument I've had from this era was a lovely instrument (and sold for a lot more) so I suspect someone may have got a deal - but not a sleeping Linota!

This post has been edited by Paul Read: 29 June 2009 - 11:16 AM


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Posted 29 June 2009 - 07:46 AM

Hmmmmmm... 80 - fold bellows eh? Well, there was a circus performer once who commissioned a concertina from Crabbs with bellows he could skip over. I think he tripped on the first outing, fell on the instrument and broke it! good for very long chords though...

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Posted 29 June 2009 - 10:12 AM

The recordings have been removed from the e-bay site. Any chance of having a listen to what we missed?
Chas

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#14 User is offline   dave shapiro 

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Posted 29 June 2009 - 10:18 AM

i'll put them back up for a while, sure. here are the links:

http://www.box.net/shared/1f01bh64x4

http://www.box.net/shared/gztoll52rv

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Posted 29 June 2009 - 11:16 AM

View PostDevon Hare, on Jun 29 2009, 08:46 AM, said:

Hmmmmmm... 8 - fold bellows eh? Well, there was a circus performer once who commissioned a concertina from Crabbs with bellows he could skip over. I think he tripped on the first outing, fell on the instrument and broke it! good for very long chords though...

Oops! I did see a photo once of a performer who did just that. My mistake this time though...

This post has been edited by Paul Read: 29 June 2009 - 03:08 PM


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Posted 29 June 2009 - 02:59 PM

View PostDevon Hare, on Jun 29 2009, 02:46 PM, said:

... 80 - fold bellows eh? ... good for very long chords though...
Only if you have long arms to match, I would say.
Would have been the perfect instrument for the old comic book hero Plastic Man, though.

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