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Here in the UK there is A.P.James He advertises a 10 button anglo in G. Jake

I was looking at Boermusiek Vir Afrika and saw a video of Kallie Bodenstein displaying his latest creations. Both anglos with probably 40/42 buttons one of which is made of perspex to show what goes on inside! Perspex concertina regards Jake

I am looking for sheet music for UNCLE GEORGE'S WALTZ/UNCLE JIM'S played by Bob Cann. Hear him playing here : Uncle George's Waltz Any help is appreciated. Jake

A Wheatstone 46 button duet (No 27243) is up for auction on the 20th November 2023 at :- Gorringes 15 North Street Lewes East Sussex BN7 2PE see here :- https://auction.gorringes.co.uk/auction-lot-detail/A-Wheatstone-concertina-numbered-27243&salelot=201123+++500+&refno=90106386 the ledgers say 48 buttons but I count only 46 + air Auctioneers estimate is £70 – £100 Jake

This sold for £320 Jake

At auction on 24/25 October at BLOOMFIELDS AUCTIONS, BELFAST. Described as an ANGELO CONCERTINA with no other details. The pictures show a 35 button (19 right & 16 left) 6 fold bellows concertina labelled "G. Jones. Patent Concertina. Manufacturer, 350 Com....." The buttons are laid out like a piano keyboard with one button under the thumb of each hand. see here :- Jedcertina Jake

It’s probably how street view works - two picture tiles joined together, but not quite joining properly. Jake

At auction at Lockdales Auctioneers, Ipswich, Suffolk, U.K. ... on 31st August 2023 Described as ... Lachenal & Co. fifty-six button concertina with pierced metal ends (no. 1892), contained in original box (working at time of cataloguing) here :- Lot 999 estimate £250/350 the photo doesn't show much but it seems to be a duet Jake

The hammer price on this was £780 Jake

At auction with Sutton Farm Country Auctions, UK on 30th June 2023. Lot No. 447 "Rare 48 button Early Lachenal & Co Crane & Sons patent 21730 duet concertina, rosewood end plates & metal buttons serial No 470" see here :- https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/suttonhillfarmcountryauctions/catalogue-id-sutton10163/lot-657aa180-8cf8-4e24-9d62-b029010746c2?utm_source=auction-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=auction-alert&utm_content=lot-image-link Jake

Just checked this auction out. Lot 1572 sold for £1900, hammer price. Lots 1570, 1571 & 1573 were unsold, I presume they failed to meet their reserve. Jake

There is an auction of musical instruments on the 16th June at Gardiner Houlgate, of Corsham, Wiltshire, U.K. They have 4 English concertinas listed. here :- Catalogue page Lot 1570. A Wakker dated 2000. Starting bid £1200 Lot 1571 .A Wheatstone No. 27437. Starting bid £1600 Lot 1572 .A Wheatstone Aeola, 56 buttons, No. 35272. Starting bid £1600 and lastly ... Lot 1573. A Wheatstone Aeola, 48 button, No. 34523 (1937) especially made for Alf Edwards & restored in 2009. Starting bid £4000 here for Alf Edwards concertina

Saw this beast in a post on Facebook at BOEREMUSIEK VIR AFRIKA I guess that it's about 16 inches (41 cms) across the flats with 84 buttons! Jake

"Interesting" is a good word for it! I find the placement of the rhythmical stresses very awkward. The A part is 4 bars & the B part is 8 bars. So ... I've doubled the length of all the notes and inserted extra bar lines to give a tune with A = 8 bars & B = 16 bars. Now it doesn't look so intimidating. I didn't want to be struggling with Eb either so I transposed it to G. Here's the ABC :– X:1 T:Banks C:Collected by Alan Dyer, editor of The International Concertina Association magazine, in Durham C:and published in edition No. 339, 1986, P.12. C:Possibly composed by Parazzotti, played by J.Scott Skinner and arranged by Gavin Geig; C:see here :— https://www.abdn.ac.uk/scottskinner/display.php?ID=JSS0200 M:4/4 L:1/4 K:Gmaj P:A (3D/2E/2F/2 | GB2(3d/2B/2G/2 | FA2 (3c/2A/2F/2 | Ce2f/2g/2 | ^c/2d/2 e/2d/2 =c/2B/2 A/2G/2 |B,d2e | Ce2f/2g/2 | F/2G/2 A/2B/2 c/2A/2 F/2A/2 | GBG :|! P:B |:b/2>^a/2 | bGG (3b/2d'/2b/2 | aFF (3a/2b/2a/2 | ge2a/2g/2 | f/2e/2 d/2^c/2 da | F/2d/2 a/2d/2 F/2d/2 a/2d/2 | G/2d/2 b/2d/2 G/2d/2 b/2d/2 |! ^c/2d/2 e/2f/2 g/2e/2 c/2e/2 | d/2c/2 d/2e/2 d/2=c/2 B/2A/2 | G/2B/2 d/2B/2 g/2B/2 A/2G/2 | F/2A/2 d/2A/2 f/2A/2 G/2F/2 |! E/2G/2 c/2G/2 e/2d/2 c/2B/2 | A/2B/2 A/2G/2 F/2E/2 D/2C/2 | B,/2G/2 d/2G/2 B,/2G/2 d/2G/2 | C/2G/2 e/2G/2 C/2G/2 e/2G/2 | F/2G/2 A/2B/2 c/2A/2 F/2A/2 | GBG :|! Here's the PDF :– Banks G:1 Double.pdf Cheating? Perhaps, but life's too short to struggle. Jake

Thank you, Takayuki YAGI, that’s it. It’s strange, how you can look for something for ages & ages and not find it, yet someone else goes straight to it! I was searching again tonight and straight away I found two scores at Musescore.com ~ thats the strange way the web world works. Jake