Daniel Hersh

Reviving this old thread to link to a fairly new video of her playing:

Great! According to Wikipedia, "Red Dead Redemption 2 broke several records and had the second-biggest launch in the history of entertainment, generating $725 million in sales from its opening weekend and shipping over 24 million copies in retail." If I may ask, do you get royalties or something like them, or were you paid a flat fee?

It's at https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-VINTAGE-LACHENAL-CONCERTINA-61-BUTTONS-7-BELLOWS/233281381143 . Here's one of the ends:

Al (and Wes) - looks good! I would suggest that you also link to the recordings listed at http://www.craneconcertina.com/links.html under "Magic Fingers - Concertina Players". You might also want to ask Boney if it's ok to list his recordings under his real name.

I hadn't been aware of this player until now. He's very impressive. Some examples below:

I don't just see reeds, I immediately thought specifically of 1950s Wheatstone "screwed down" reeds as in the picture below:

I don't know the answer re the button count. The concertina was probably a special order of some kind because a metal end on one end and wood on the other is extremely unusual, so an extra button could have been a special request too. Re hexagonal vs. octagonal. the price list does say "Nos. 36 to 39, in the New Aeola Octagonal Model, £2 extra", so it's still likely to be a model 39.

Then you might like this Wheatstone price list from the era of your concertina: http://www.concertina.com/pricelists/wheatstone-duet/Wh-Pricelist-Duet-c1920.pdf

You might consider contacting Barleycorn Concertinas in England to see if they'd be interested in it. They're the leading dealer in vintage concertinas. They have a fairly similar one listed on their web site now: http://www.concertina.co.uk/stock-selection/?concertina=3232 .

See https://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?/topic/21187-duet-recordings/&do=findComment&comment=196786 .

If someone wants to ask him directly, his contact info (and much more info about him) us at https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/staff/academic/simonkeeganphipps .

Very nice playing here. It's a Facebook video - I hope it's visible to those not on Facebook.

You are probably right. Could this be the original design?

Here's a silly concertina box label I hadn't seen before, from https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Old-World-Concertina-20-Buttons-Squeezebox-CZECHUSLOVAKIAN/323820823176?hash=item4b6539a288 :

This is from a couple of years ago, but I don't remember seeing it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4AMUOX27aY. She is one of my favorite players.