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I started with a Stagi (Concertina Italia) last December and moved up to the Morse Ceili a few months later. The two are worlds apart! Being new to the concertina it wasn't an issue to switch over to the Jeffries layout.

Something I've wondered about with end plates is how much the placement and size of the negative space (cut out areas) affects the balance of the tone and volume. I'm in line to have a concertina made and considered designing my own end plate, but quickly got overwhelmed at the prospect of how it would affect the tone, balance, and volume. And that is without considering the material used.

Mine is a picture of Norton sleeping on my lap. A pal who passed a few years ago. Named Norton because he was as skinny as a rail and his buddy here at the house was another cat pal named Ralph.

Thanks, Axel! I can understand the dificulty in getting all the way through a tune without wanting to go back and start over. Looks/sounds like you did it this time!

Oh man! I was hoping the monster was going to play an anglo! Well I would have settled for an English, but unfortunately the monster played neither...

I can see how soldering directly is better for your use case! I prefer low profile choc switches. But they have a rectangular stem, as opposed the square stem on the MX switches that are closer to a concertina's buttons.

That looks great and sounds great as well! I've built several split mechanical keyboards for computer entry from kits so it is fun to see essentially the same thing being used for creating music that's more than the clicking of the keys. As I was listening to your playing I was pondering what switches you are using.

Does the Wayback Machine help you a out? Here's the link for ths last snapshot it took: https://web.archive.org/web/20220321150718/http://mickbramich.co.uk/ And here's the link to all the snapshots of the website: https://web.archive.org/web/20220501000000*/mickbramich.co.uk The Wayback Machine can be pretty useful for looking at websites that are now gone. For example I was able to see the Buttonbox website pages (now gone) for the Morse Ceili concertina I have. digger

Dana, I'm glad for the correspondence we've by email, but it seems we will not have the opportunity to meet face to face. I'm hoping the best for you and sending you good thoughts to help you through your ills

Thank you, Jememy, I enjoyed listening to it! I know the piece would be a challenge for me. I'm a novice, having only been learning and playing by (and for) myself. I look for a balance between what (I think) the score is telling me I should play, and what I feel I want to play. How do you work with that?

I've seen many of Jody's posts and have always been currious about his hand straps. They do look comfy, but @Jody Kruskal, I wouldn't mind hearing some about what you've done with your straps and why?

Jody, I always enjoy your tunes! But the video made me chuckle to look at. Here I am thinking about open windows and fans and air conditioners - and there you are in the video wearing a watch cap as if it's in the middle of winter-

Boy, that sure does sound like AI -- a lot of words with almost no useful info

Yes, I was asking if they are the session, performer, or professional model. @fiddler2007,I do recall a differ topic where you had a jeffries with some keys were swapped -- or something to that effect.

Which version of the hybrids are they?