"Here's something unusual. Just recently I unearthed a "concertina"
the likes of which I've never seen. I'll describe it ...
Made by Lachenal, serial # 70000-odd, rosewood end (not ends), 7 3/4"
across the flats. 12-fold bellows, green leather, usual white-with-gold-dots-and-crosses
papers. One end is just a flat piece of wood, which looks like it would
sit on a table or something.
The other end has three rows of buttons. The inner row of ten buttons
in in the key of G, just like the inner row of an anglo with both hands'
buttons all in the one row. The second row is in the key of C, ten buttons,
just like both hands of an anglo put together. The third row, eight
buttons, has the usual Lachenal sharps and flats, just as if they were
on a 28-key anglo.
The end with the buttons has the normal Lachenal handstrap and air
button. The air button is not the usual lever arrangement, but terminates
in a rod running parallel to the long axis of the instrument, which
presses directly onto a spring-loaded trapdoor.
The reed pan is radially arranged, similar to a 30-key anglo, but considerably
bigger, since it has to hold 56 reeds.
It's a bit like a giant anglo-chromatic designed for an amputee!
Have you ever heard of the likes???"
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