Bob Tedrow

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Here is a quick time movie of a 33 buttons g/d Anglo I built a few years ago. I did use the drone throughout the recording. I played the hymn a bit too fast and left my mouth hanging open a bit.....I'm no actor. http://hmi.homewood.net/33bGD/33blachenal.mov

http://twitpic.com/lqynb - All done with Miss Paige's fancy concertina. Thank you very much.

(blush) golly, thanks.

http://twitpic.com/k4app - Bellows finished. Thank you for your kind attention. I hope you enjoyed the show.

I have already started Http://twitter.com/homewoodmusic scroll down to September 30 entry to start from the beginning.

Would like to hear from the concertina cognoscenti, please.

How would you describe the impact of the koa on the sound? I know koa guitars are very distinctive in sound. I just finished a second Koa concertina this morning. Image at http://twitter.com/homewoodmusic Although this is one of the very nicest concertinas I have built, I attribute that to experience rather than the choice of woodwork.

I haven't put up a set of photos for a while: http://hmi.homewood.net/koa

Not often, when it threatens snow we all line up and buy bread milk and beer. There's no snow there, eh!? P

http://www.jennyadamsfreelance.com/images/NOV08music-32.pdf

I have a "double melodeon" a Chromatic button box with the same label. It has a very interesting mechanism that allows the same button to control levers on opposite sides of the centrally located fingerboard

I have a couple of boxes of Rochelle Anglo concertinas in the shop, as well as Jackie English and Elise Haydens http://hmi.homewood.net/rochelle Bob

Here's a bit more, from the Wall Street Journal writer's blog: http://trueslant.com/davidknowles/2009/07/...ade-concertina/

Don't worry, no one pays attention to Wim and I. With that statement in the article that, "An early-20th-century Wheatstone can go for as much as $14,000..."? Among the various possible consequences: .. 1) Speculators will bid decent instruments out of reach of "ordinary" folk. .. 2) Anybody with a concertina of dubious value will now be able unload it at a hefty profit on the sort of investor who followed Wall Street's advice on risky derivatives and mortgages. .. 3) Nothing much will change. (A single "highlight" article rarely sets off an avalanche.) .. 4) Invent your own scenario.

Yep, We made it. http://tinyurl.com/lohp8q Bob

Bellows as well?

gosh, I though I was making my own from scratch!

For your perusal http://hmi.homewood.net/adjusterscrew/

http://twitter.com/HomewoodMusic Since we are on the subject of replacing broken ends, here one of two ends that I completely replaced/rebuilt. I came up with a clever way to index the old and new tops so that the darn buttons line up. Bob

I have the new Elise Haydens available now at my shop

Perhaps volume attenuator would be a better choice but I was attracted to the alliteration Bob

By removing the reed, adjusting the slide beneath the tone hole/reed vent,and then replacing the reed, one can vary the volume of air (not the pressure, which remains constant) that passes over the reed in each direction. I made several empirical trials using the sound lever meter pictured, comparing the level of an adjacent and unadjusted reed vent to the level of a reed vent at 0, 25% 50% 75% and 90% attenuated. I found that there is a measurable and proportional effect on the volume of a reed when the TTA is progressively closed. Players who find that the strident tone/volume of a given reed or range of reeds overpowers other reeds when played together might find this device useful as it is fully adjustable by the end user. Bob

Please take a look at this device. http://hmi.homewood.net/tedrowtoneattenuator/

The end result looked great and the sense of pride you must have has been richly deserved. I can think of many worse ways to earn a crust. Ian Don't be too impressed, I made my customer wait about a year to get it done. I felt so guilty about making him wait that I didn't charge him for the new bellows. So, not only am I slow.....I am only an average businessman at best!