tosca18

Hello everyone. I'm the lister of the ebay 1924 Wheatstone. Just to give a bit more info (by the way, my brother and I came across your forum when we were researching the Wheatstone, when the 1913 instrument was on ebay), my father was a Salvation Army officer. In his day they used to teach them to play the concertina when they were in bible college. We knew he had one concertina, the Lachenal which is also so listed, but when my mother died recently, we discovered the Wheatstone, plus a Hohner piano accordian! We searched the internet for info and were very surprised to find how collectible these items are. We managed to trace the Wheatstone on the ledgers using the serial number but the other concertina has no external means of id. On taking off the end plate my brother discovered the Lachenal name although there is no serial number and the plate which would originally have housed the name on the outside has gone. The box has a label with Salvationist Publishing and Supplies on it. I had a question from an ebayer asking if the Wheatstone was tuned to concert pitch. On searching for a key-chart on the internet I established that the C keys on the instrument are pitched to an F on the piano. I was taking C on the concertina to be the bottom key on the third row of the left side....is that correct? Sorry if I sound naive but as you are probably aware, I don't play personally. My brother wrote the description and he's a professional singer so is a bit more conscious of the timbre of the instrument.