Leonard

Glad you're freed from your splint, Alan. Otherwise it wouldn't have been more than just wig wog jig...

Ouch, a mallet finger. I had that once. How did it happen? At least 2 members of C.net got it by taking their sock off...

That 2 D#'s looks a bit odd to me. Better call them Eb's?

Fred explained what he's after: It's about the nature of the contact between fingers and keys. Henrik Muller's article Fred refers to states about his shorter buttons: "Having shorter buttons that depress all the way, flush with the end plate, had more impact than I could have expected. Traditional Irish music has a lot of repeated notes, and to preserve the flow of the tune, they need to be performed by switching fingers; deep buttons go a long way in facilitating this."

This discussion, you mean?

Not accesable for non-facebook-member. Is this the same version as on Soundcloud? https://soundcloud.com/concertinist/march-of-the-concertinas-feb2

Robin, your link doesn't work. This is what you mean:

If you're interested in concertina pricelists through the years, Chris Algar has collected a lot of them. See http://www.concertina.com/pricelists/index.htm

Not so mysterious. Of every page in the ledgers there is a small and a large representation. In this case their addresses are: .../PAGES/D3P0910S.HTM .../PAGES/D3P0910L.HTM

Theo and Malcolm refer to the same page in the ledger. Serial number 36532 is a amboyna ended model 5E, dated 16-2-1959. (Not 1859)

This confusion about bi- and unidirectional was spoken about before in this topic:

Harry Geuns does bandoneons and concertinas. He lives in Molenbeersel, just over the Belgian border, south of Weert. www.bandoneon-maker.com

Don't forget to take a look at his footbass! https://bandoneon-maker.com/foot-bass/

Stephen, do you mean that that the models 1 to 10 all have bone buttons?

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