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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

I'm always on the look out for new/different tunes and here's one called simply "Banks" that intrigues me. It was collected in Durham by Alan Dyer, editor of The International Concertina Association magazine, and published in edition No. 339, 1986, P.12. I can find no other references to it since then and I wondered if anyone here has come across it. For my own use I've transpose it into G & made some other small changes but here it is as published. .... Banks in Eb.pdf and 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. 😄 M:4/4 L:1/8 K:Ebmaj (3B,/2C/2D/2 | EG2(3B/2G/2E/2 DF2 (3A/2F/2D/2 | A,c2d/2e/2 =A/2B/2c/2B/2 _A/2G/2F/2E/2 |G,B2c A,c2d/2e/2 | D/2E/2F/2G/2 A/2F/2D/2E/2 EGE :|! |:g/2>^f/2 | gEE (3g/2b/2g/2 fDD (3f/2g/2f/2 | ec2f/2e/2 d/2c/2B/2=A/2 Bf | D/2B/2f/2B/2 D/2B/2f/2B/2 E/2B/2g/2B/2 E/2B/2g/2B/2 |! =A/2B/2c/2d/2 e/2c/2A/2c/2 B/2A/2B/2c/2 B/2_A/2G/2F/2 | E/2G/2B/2G/2 e/2G/2F/2E/2 D/2F/2B/2F/2 d/2F/2E/2D/2 |! C/2E/2A/2E/2 c/2B/2A/2G/2 F/2G/2F/2E/2 D/2C/2B,/2A,/2 | G,/2E/2B/2E/2 G,/2E/2B/2E/2 A,/2E/2c/2E/2 A,/2E/2c/2E/2 | D/2E/2F/2G/2 A/2F/2D/2F/2 EGE :|! Jake

Well, the box sold for £110, hammer price ( = £143 with buyers premium & tax) The painting sold for £280, hammer price ( = £364 with buyers premium & tax) Jake

Well, the box they are in has a label inside the lid marked :- TONI & TINA, 140 Findon St, Sheffield. A quick Google takes us to The Concertina Museum and a selection of photos of the duo with some of their instruments. Also, From 'Papers of The International Concertina Association; Vol 9, 2012' here; http://www.concertina.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/PICA09-2012.pdf An article titled ' Miniature and Semi-Miniature Concertinas' has the following information "Toni & Tina" (sometimes bill as "Tina and Nita") was the musical variety act of Edward and "Tina" Potts, who performed on miniature, small,7 8 and regular-size English and Maccann duet concertinas, as well as on the xylophone. They previously performed in "The Concercordions and Nita," a concertina-accordion-xylophone act led by Edward's father, concertinist G. W. Potts (see Fig.A2.7).7<? Some of the concertinas have the name plate G.W.POTTS on them, which of course must be his father. Jake

A very nice looking Rosewood & Brass, lined, case is listed for auction on 8th March at MALLAM'S of Oxford. here : https://www.mallams.co.uk/sales/oxford/art-music/view-lot/136/ No carrying handle visible and no mention of a key for the lock. Check out Lot No 124, a still life with concertina - an EC with 8 fold bellows Jake

So, ... here :– Duet for auction is a sad looking duet in Halifax, U.K. on the 04th September. Not enough information given and not enough pictures. BUT it might suit someone looking for a project? Jake

Just came across this auction being held tomorrow by ... House & Son Auctioneers & Valuers,11 - 14 Lansdowne House,Christchurch Road,The Lansdowne,Bournemouth BH1 3JWwhich has the following ... Lot 213. 30k ConnorLot 218. 30k Dipper Lot 219. Wheatstone 26k Linota, Lot 220. 30k C. Jeffriessee here :- Anglos Only one picture of each in their boxes and no description but they all look in very fine condition. Jake