Bill Crossland

https://horniman.ac.uk/collections/browse-our-collections/keyword/concertina

You can also scan it life-size and import it into your CAD drawing programme

Thanks Mitch - I will still need to sort out the bass register, but I certainly have the basis of a big, mellow baritone!

It's a 30 key Wheatstone anglo from around 1914, he has three similar ones

Thanks Dave - they might be interesting in a bass anglo. I had the opportunity to look inside one of Neil Waynes Wheatstone badged Harmoniums - a photo of the reed array below. It proved to be continental in origin - he has others badged by George Jones and Rock Chidley, which are also continental.

And a picture of the instrument.

A little while ago I acquired a large 40 key English concertina, which apperared to have been originally pitched somewhere between bass and baritone. A previous owner had started some dastardly modifications to the reedpan which rendered it unlikely to ever be reinstated in its original form. In the fullness of time I intend to make new ends and reedpan in anglo format. In all there were 80 reeds, some in the reedpan, others separately bagged. In the upper register, they are all conventional concertina style reeds to fit into dovetailed slots. The rest of them are surface mount. Some of these appear to be standard larger surface mount concertina reeds, steel tongues and conventionally stamped as you would expect to find in a traditionally made bass/baritone instrument. Others are brass reeded with stamping that suggests they are probably taken from an old harmonium - some have continental stampings on to indicate the notes. They are quite a size but I will probably have enough space to accomodate them - they sound quite good on a tuning rig. Picture attached showing both brass and steel reeded versions, the two on the left I would suggest are made by an English concertina maker. 1. Does anyone out there have any experience of using harmonium reeds in a conventional concertina? What are the drawbacks? 2. I'm short of a good few bass reeds in the lowest register, two octaves below middle C - anyone out there have any available?

£2600 - it was a 30% commission. Could have been a duet.... There are 44 key duet layouts out there, this was a 44 key plus a drone

Thanks

The brass plate around the valve is for protection and cosmetics!

Hi Seth - As Alec says, I had some of these reed holders laser cut and made the tuning bellows. I can supply the brass parts,big that is all you need. - I will pm you Bill

Hi Dowright - I've recently worked on two Lachenal Bass Anglos, both originally 6 fold bellows, though one has had another three folds grafted in. Both 30 key, steel reeds 151,069 pitched in C/G, used by the Tottington Concertina Band 174,914 in Bb/F, marked internally "Pride of Wooton" Picture below - any dates please? From the other data you've published, both would appear to lie between 1896 and 1906?

It was rediscovered in America nad now heading back to Mr Wayne's concertina museum

This Louis Lachenal instrument has just come in for conservation, but is amazingly original. The inlay work on the ends and around the sides is magnificent, and the buttons glass. The end construction is very similar to early Wheatstones, with the fretted ends and side panels removing in one piece There is a date inked on one of the bellows cards inside which is 6/12/75. Would that tie in with other date estimates for manufacture?

Duplicates on different buttons. All the buttons I tried were different in and out, with some several notes apart in and out... I didn't look at relationships between columns, my brain was beginning to hurt......