Daniel Hersh
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Thomas is another US maker of concertinas with traditional concertina reeds: http://thomasconcertinas.com/index_files/Thomas_Concertinas_Instrument.htm . I've only seen and played one Thomas concertina but I thought it was very good.
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Barleycorn has one for £950 at https://concertina.co.uk/stock-selection/duet-concertinas/lachenal-46-key-maccann-duet-with-steel-reeds/ . They don't put all their concertinas on their website, so it's possible they have one within your price range that's not on the website.
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UK Maccann Duet player Iris Bishop, hosted on the International Concertina Association YouTube channel. This is some of the best concertina playing I have heard anywhere. Watch the whole thing!
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Updated to add Crook under Vintage/Traditional Construction.
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8 hours ago, Dimble said:
I wasn't here 10 years ago, so at least one person appreciated the re-post. 😀
I was here 10 years ago, but I appreciated it too.
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On 2/5/2024 at 4:40 PM, wes williams said:
I don't think any progress was made. However Daniel Hersh is now on the ICA committee and so has access to the PDF files in the ICA Archive and may wish to comment.
I do have indeed now have access to those files, but see below...
On 9/13/2015 at 1:23 PM, Ken_Coles said:I did correspond with Geo (George) about this, when he inquired if it was appropriate to advertise the scans here on the forum (I said it certainly was). Without going into details that don't belong here, the circumstances under which C&S ceased publication left Geo owed some money, so he told me there was no doubt he was entitled to the rights to the old back issues. I think that was one motive for sharing the scans on CD-ROM for (IIRC) 20 dollars U.S. - to recover a little bit of it. Given this, I think the proper thing to do would be to track down his family and get permission to openly share the archive. My hunch is this permission would be readily granted, and it would be the right way to do it.
I know there are folks who knew Geo better than most of us and who could put us in touch with the right folks. Anyone out there?
Ken
Permissions and rights are indeed the issue here. So far as I know, no one responded to Ken's question back in 2015. I don't know how to reach Geo's family, and even if he felt he was entitled to the rights, I don't know if that is legally accurate. So far as I know, Joel Cowan (who may also have a claim to the rights) is still alive, though he is not easy to find.
All that having been said, if anyone wants a particular individual issue, send me a c.net private message.
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It's now World Concertina Day (February 6) in most of the world and will be February 6 soon in the US, so I'm happy to report that this year's international concert videos are now publicly viewable! We've got a great lineup of players this year, representing many countries, concertina types, and playing styles:
Part one: Alistair Anderson, Eimear Donnellan, Espen Wensaas, Yuxin Ding, Sandra Kerr, Zak van der Vyver, Bryan Creer and Valmai Goodyear, Jon Dietz, Gilbert Carrere, Elena Frecot, Kitty Greenwood, and Michael Eskin
Part two: Dave Townsend, Mary MacNamara, Richard Burgess, Lexie Boatright, Alex Wade, Aidas Rusa, Mary Roth, Gavin and Julie Atkin, Will Pound, Greg Mirken, Ríona Hely, and Michael JaryThere are also a number of players who have produced videos of their own this year: Steve Turner, Iris Bishop, Paul McCann, Ryo Sato, Edward Jay, Matt Heumann, the J25 Concertina Band, the Hawkwood Concertina Band, Ryo Sato and a collection of players in Australia. We have put them together along with the 2024 international concert videos in a playlist on the ICA YouTube channel.
Take a look! As always, World Concertina Day is sponsored by the International Concertina Association. You can see the full list of 2024 WCD activities and events here.
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WCD 2024 events are starting to happen now, with the first listed event happening today in Australia! Events around the world are listed at https://concertina.org/world-concertina-day-2024/ . If you can't make it to any of those, consider doing something on your own, such as making a recording of your playing and sharing it with the concertina community or more widely.
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Worldwide online concertina players gathering on Zoom, hosted by the International Concertina Association! Saturday February 10, at 7 pm UK time (2 pm eastern US, 11 am west coast US). Free and open to everyone (not just to ICA members). Pre-registration is required and is now open at https://ukri.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpdO-oqTsqE9bxPW7S1HhPW2V0ry-ijUmW .
I hope to see many of you there!
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I'm happy to report that a number of WCD 2024 events have now been scheduled in the UK and the US. Details at https://concertina.org/world-concertina-day-2024 . If you're planning something that we haven't listed yet, let us know at wcd@concertina.org .
I'm also glad to report that ICA will be putting on its first-ever worldwide online concertina players gathering on Zoom on Saturday February 10, 7 pm UK time. Pre-registration will be required. I'll post more info here as it becomes available.
And WCD 2024 merchandise is still available for purchase at https://www.mudchutney.co.uk/collections/world-concertina-day-2024 .
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This post from last year says Dan Worrall's paper The Concertina at Sea: A History of a Nautical Icon can be viewed and/or downloaded here: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/3988437/the-concertina-at-sea-the-anglo-german-concertina . I just checked and it seems to still be there.
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Now less than two months away! WCD 2024 merchandise is now available for purchase at https://www.mudchutney.co.uk/collections/world-concertina-day-2024 .
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On 12/10/2023 at 12:44 PM, mChavez said:
Thanks. Yes, I knew about the US but it has skipped my mind. Never heard of Carslfelders in Brasil!
I think the players in Brazil are mostly ethnically German. Here's one:
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46 minutes ago, mChavez said:
Price wise, you can't have a market price for something that doesn't have a market - it's whatever somebody's prepared to pay for it.
It's really not unusual for similar-ish "chemnitzers" (i.e. any cube that's not a bandoneon) to go for 300-500EUR in Germany. And Germany's probably the only place where folks play them.
Chemnitzers (not Carlsfelders) are actively played in the upper Midwest area of the US, and Carlsfelders are actively played in a region of Brazil. I didn't realize that anyone was still playing them in Germany, though I know they were actively played in the Franken region until not too long ago.
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5 hours ago, Chemnitzer said:
So, l see used 30-key English concertinas for about £280-£380. Taking my cue from that, my concertina could never be £300.
Read Theo's response again, and be aware that he is writing from his experience as an established concertina and accordion restorer and dealer. What it's worth is what someone is willing to pay for it.
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I recently became aware of a young performer on Carlsfelder concertina in Brazil named Emerson Julio Uhlig. I wonder if he's a relative of Carl Friedrich Uhlig, the inventor of the German concertina almost 200 years ago. Both the Anglo and the Carlsfelder/Chemnitzer/Bandonion family are descendants of Carl Friedrich Uhlig's concertina.
Here he is:
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I'm not sure what information you're still looking for, if any. I did notice this on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155926598298 - are you the seller?
But I wanted to mention that when I wrote that this concertina (and the one in the earlier post that you linked to) was a Carlsfelder/Karlsfelder, that was based on a rule of thumb that for large German concertinas of around 50 buttons, if both sides have three long rows, it's a Carlsfelder, if one side has three rows and one has four, it's a Chemnitzer, and if both sides have four or more rows it's a bandonion/bandonion. I was not aware of the existence of the Scheffler layout until very recently, which also has three rows on each side. I don't know if that would be considered a Carlsfelder subvariant or something completely different.
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Updated to add Inkostini in the student/basic category.
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Thanks for letting us know, and my condolences on your father's passing. I did not know him personally, but he was a brilliant player. Since we now have your permission, I will look into having the recordings from the ICA website (the ones that Irene mentioned) added to the Duet Recordings page.
Daniel
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It's a Carlsfelder/Karlsfelder rather than a Chemnitzer but I can't tell you much more than that.
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13 hours ago, David Barnert said:
I once found myself referring to him as “The Eddie Van Halen of the concertina.”
But one thing for @JLAB9 to consider that I haven’t seen mentioned in this thread yet is that although there may be more Anglo concertina players than English concertina players these days, it’s much more likely that an English concertina player will be comfortable reading music notation. Anglo concertina players are more likely to be self-taught folkies who learn by ear and rely on tablature when they need to use a written source for a tune. The English concertina was developed as a classical instrument, a stand-in for the violin (as others have mentioned). While many English concertina players today are folk-oriented, it is still an instrument that lends itself to reading music notation more readily than the Anglo.
I agree.
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On 11/23/2023 at 5:17 AM, Fanie said:
I found this red plastic body Italian cocertina which is over 30 years old. Does anybody know what it is?
Thanks
Probably made by Stagi or their predecessor Bastari.
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The third annual World Concertina Day, sponsored once again by the International Concertina Association, will be on February 6, 2024, the anniversary of the birth of Sir Charles Wheatstone. Since that date falls on a Tuesday, the ICA also welcomes activities on the weekends before and after that.
We're hoping that everyone with an interest in the concertina will participate by organizing or taking part in an event in your local area or online, on February 6, 2024 or on a nearby date.
Some ideas:
- Gatherings of concertina players
- In-person or online public concert performances by concertina groups or individual performers. Online events could be pre-recorded and posted online on the day
- Events such as “concertina flash mobs” that lend themselves to social media publicity and local media interest
- Live workshop events featuring concertinas
- Local or national radio/TV interviews by concertina people
- Display or demonstration of the concertina at your local museum, library or community center
- Sharing a recording of yourself or telling your social media friends about your interest in the concertina
- ….or anything else you can think of! Lists of events and links to video, audio and articles from World Concertina Day 2022 and 2023 are still available online.
We would be happy to use ICA’s communication channels to help you publicize your event. We can also provide a World Concertina Day logo to use in your event publicity. However, please note that the ICA cannot provide funding for your event or accept liability in connection with it.
If you would like to take part, have ideas, or would like to discuss any aspect of World Concertina Day, feel free to comment here or to contact ICA's World Concertina Day team at WCD@concertina.org. More info about World Concertina Day 2024 is at https://concertina.org/world-concertina-day-2024 .-
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I'd say it's horrifying, but it's a toy imitation concertina of a type I don't have yet...so I bought it.
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ICA sticker and logo
in General Concertina Discussion
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Hi, Wes--
We do have some extra stickers, or should have them fairly soon. They will initially be in the custody of ICA membership secretary Martin Henshaw. I don't think we've talked about how we'll make them available, but my guess is that at least some of them will be available to ICA members on request.
Daniel