tony

Hi, yes it is still available. Sorry I didn't reply sooner but I haven't been around lately. I've had a couple of other enquiries but nothing has matured yet.

Sorry I've not been around for a while. The instrument is still available.

Sorry I've not been around for a while. The instrument is still available.

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In my experience: because of the orientation of the keys, a hand strap on a EC is likely to limit your reach to the higher keys, particularly if you have any mobility problems (in my case arteritis). If you do have a mobility problem with you fingers and you play an instrument with a hand strap you might find an EC (without a hand strap) a solution. I have a Jackie and I’m getting on with fine so far, as long as I don’t attempt to support the instrument with my thumbs. I traded a very nice EC some years ago in favour of my McCann because I found the duet key layout more intuitive than the EC.

I’m open to offers. If you’re anywhere near Birmingham you are welcome to visit me and ‘try before you buy’.

Thanks for your replies. There is no urgency and I’m more than happy to consider offers. My concertina is in very good shape and anyone can come and view it anytime. I continue to play it for short sessions each day, however my main concern is to find a good home for it before my demise. LOL I doubt the family would know what to do with it.

I’m having difficulty in knowing what price to ask for my concertina. Please see my listing in the Buy and Sell forum. There is one for sale here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325875638157 but it seems overpriced to me.

Just to add: 46 keys, steel reeds, S/N 1684

I've had this lovely instrument for a little over 15 years. I had it re-tuned to "modern pitch" soon after I bought it. It's been a great pleasure playing but unfortunately old age and the onset of arthritis limits my playing to only a few minutes a day. My intention was to pass it on to someone in the family but not one of them is interested in playing any kind of "squeeze box" so I feel it's time to find a new home for it. However I don’t really know how much it’s worth so a little assistance in valuation from you good people would be most helpful. Thanks

I could be interested in an English. What do you have?

Now that's a strange looking EC. It only seems to have three columns of button plus an odd one at the top and it has a full hand strap as opposed to thumb straps.

What Dirge said. I play a lot of melody only on my 46 key Maccann and there is very little I can’t play providing I have the dots.

You can verify from the pics of the concertina for sale that it has no low E in the LH. To make it easy, the names of the notes are on the heads of the keys, the LH end is shown in pic no 12 (only). Diagrams of 39-key Maccann key layouts in Maccan's own New Instruction Method and Gaskins chording book on concertina.com show no E, though Gaskins' wording gives some indication that this may not apply to every specific instrument. Every 46-key I have seen has this E, and it is shown in the diagrams in the same books mentioned above, though I think some early models may lack it. Yes Ivan, I think you are right. The attachments are not very good but you can probably see there is no low E in either the 39 or 47 Key.

Why on earth would someone "mainly interested in playing single line tunes" buy a duet concertina? Why not? It has a number of advantages over an EC or an anglo and the Maccann goes a good way to having the best of both.