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fiskardo

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  1. Having looked in the ledgers, and discarded the aeolas, 56 keyed instruments and obvious "custom" models, I'm still left with about ten possibilities so I've given up! With reference to what Geoff said re baffles, I did not know that the instrument had ever had any but having looked closely, there are patches of glue with bits of light coloured ?pine on the underside of the external, fretted, ends. There are many references in the ledgers to "No 2, No 4, No 5" etc. What do these annotations mean?
  2. Thank you very much. I do not have the serial number, only the last two digits (according to Stephen Chambers) so I guess I'll have to settle for the date bracket which you have kindly indicated.
  3. Thanks very much for this. I will now be wondering, whenI look up all the ser no's ending in 64 in the Ledgers. I always thought that it played very well and was plenty loud enough to compete with the racket in a crowded pub. In terms of quality, where would it sit in the general canon of concertinas?
  4. Hi Geoff, Many thanks for your very helpful reply. I will investigate further.
  5. Further to my last post- some photo's
  6. Good afternoon forum, I am new to the forum and would like to consult the experts about my Wheatstone 48 key treble. I have owned this instrument for 30 years but, having moved back to Ireland a few years ago, it is no longer being played as I am now (perhaps ironically) in the land of the Anglo! I would therefore like to sell it and, with this in mind I got it out and decided to take a really close look at it. One of the puzzling things about this instrument is that I have never been able to find a serial number on it. However, having spent last evening investigating further I think I have found one- the reason I dismissed this number before is that I was expecting at least four or five digits . This has two! The serial number is 64. This number does not appear in the Wheatstone Ledgers (nearest is 62). Is this likely? I have just noticed the tiny file size permitted for attachments, having taken some trouble to photograph the instrument with a decent camera. I'll now have to somehow reduce the file sizes of the images before posting. For now: Wheatstone, Conduit street address, 48 metal buttons, ?rosewood ends, 5 fold bellows in very good condition, It appears to have steel reeds mounted on brass. A couple of sticking buttons and one muffled reed. Loud, bright tone. Probably original hexagonal case with keys. Any thoughts?
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