Leonard
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Cannot see you video.
It's marked 'private'...
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12 hours ago, DickT said:
Mystery solved.
On 11 Aug David Robertson mentioned a serial number query from June 2019 for a 56 key ET Edeophone. He now has a 48 on his bench with the same serial no. ....
It was Dave Elliott's bench, not David Robertson's.
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Sounds like fun to me!
Not playing an instrument generating electronic sound (like a midi concertina) but a electronic device that plays an real concertina.
It's like a street organ.
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6 hours ago, Takayuki YAGI said:
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However, some of the recent low-priced concertinas do not have English style action...…...
What kind of action do you mean?
If they have the wooden parallel kind of action I would call it a German concertina.
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On 7/18/2022 at 9:21 AM, Richard Mellish said:
The discussion of Lachenal 2277 "AG Duet"
suggested that it had probably been made about 1904 and numbered in the McCann series before that was merged with the Crane series. However what is at present the last posting on that thread ( Sprunghub, Posted April 24, 2021) refers to a 'Date my Lachenal' thread which is "14 pages long". I have found two similar threads, this one, which is only two pages, and
which is only a single page. If someone can point me to the 14 page one that might pin down the date of 2277 a bit closer.
Richard,
The thread you are looking for is in the "Concertina History" subforum:
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The little eyes for a strap look like
the ones used by Pauline de Snoo :
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If you want to know what that focus on this site is, take a look at
But over the years there were quite some topics about instruments like yours. You can do a search here on concertina.net for "Pearl Queen".
More information about these concertinas is to be found on https://concertinamusic.com.
But as Mike said, don't go away.
Share with us the history and some pictures of this old instrument.
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On 7/5/2022 at 7:56 AM, Geoff Wooff said:
Al, should this not read '32 bars long' ?
Alan was just testing the audience.
Anyway, I didn't notice .....
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From the patent document I understand it uses the system of the "well-known Menzenhauescher Zithern" to facilitate untrained players to play a simple melody.
That zither seems to use tune sheets lying under the strings, showing what string to play next.
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Edel,
Most welcome to our forums on concertina.net!
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Glad you're freed from your splint, Alan.
Otherwise it wouldn't have been more than just wig wog jig...
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8 hours ago, Alan Day said:
A fairly simple tune made difficult that I could only use two fingers (and a thumb) on my right hand due to "Mallet Finger" A broken ligament and a cracked bone in my finger. It will take about three months to heal.
A lovely tune from a song made famous by The Copper Family of Sussex.
Al
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...
On 11/24/2014 at 3:29 PM, adrian brown said:Now it's my turn :-( Only consolation is to know I'm not the first with a problem taking socks off... It happened already 10 days ago and I just ignored it and even managed to play 2 concerts last week. But a visit to the doctor this morning was very bad news, seems 6-8 weeks with my middle finger permanently in a splint and then some re-education. Luckily it's a quiet period for us and I've only had to cancel one concert.
Just remember all of you, how dangerous socks can be...
Looks like it's going to be bass runs for me for 6 weeks...
Adrian
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That 2 D#'s looks a bit odd to me. Better call them Eb's?
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Fred explained what he's after:
9 hours ago, fred v said:My brain now senses the feel of the plate and has made my touch much lighter. As I play more I will soon begin to do things like sliding a finger from one button to another with much greater ease and speed. I eagerly await all the benefits of doing this modification.
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."
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This discussion, you mean?
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7 hours ago, Alan Day said:
Here is Jim Besser's recording.
Not accesable for non-facebook-member.
Is this the same version as on Soundcloud?
https://soundcloud.com/concertinist/march-of-the-concertinas-feb2
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11 minutes ago, Robin Harrison said:
I think this would count !
A double-reeded English concertina...........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S95GjBQkS7w&ab_channel=RobinHarrison
Robin, your link doesn't work.
This is what you mean:
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If you're interested in concertina pricelists through the years, Chris Algar has collected a lot of them.
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17 hours ago, malcolm clapp said:
I don't believe I did, Theo 🙂
Not sure how come the differing page addresses lead to the same page....
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
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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)
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This confusion about bi- and unidirectional was spoken about before in this topic:
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Harry Geuns does bandoneons and concertinas. He lives in Molenbeersel, just over the Belgian border, south of Weert.
www.bandoneon-maker.com
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Don't forget to take a look at his footbass!
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5 hours ago, Stephen Chambers said:
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11. Same as #10 but with metal buttons.
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Stephen,
do you mean that that the models 1 to 10 all have bone buttons?
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Welcome back!