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A friend asked me to find him an ebony-ended Aeola ( treble ). Any ideas?? Please pm...

Good luck! They are very rare... I only have this one:

Nice instruments...

If you know what to look for, you can tell that it is a 48 key tenor by the position of the buttons! I love these small tenors, even though they have not quite enough air for big chords. I have a metal-ended one ( which belonged to Alf Edwards ), an ebony-ended one plus an Amboyna-ended one - all rather late models. Supposedly Wheatstone only started in the late twenties to make these!? I had a couple of Lachenal F-tenors, which look the same, but play in the key of F if fingered like a treble, but one row down... Rare and interesting stuff!

I do have a Lachenal Tutor with decent fife-fold bellows, but quite terrible brass reeds!? I had been looking for a set of steel-reeds - but without success. I'm asking 300€, based in Germany...

I made them an offer, but they never responded. Most likely more than you paid...

I have seen them on later Aeolas - just as there are plenty of late Anglo-Aeolas with eight folds... Juliette Daum had one. It was an absolute cracker!!

Did you check www.concertina.com for details?

Can you send a pic? We will most likely be able to help...

It should all be there in English, too!?

Welcome Ciaran, I bought quite a few instruments off your father over the last 40 years or so. So I remember you as a little boy;-) I assume and hope that you will keep up your work as an Irish musician as well!? All the best... Robert ( Bob ) from Germany

Today someone form the US offered me the domain concertinas.net ... for a lot of money ( my personal domain is concertinas.de ). I offered him a fraction of that price - not expecting success. But he agreed!?!? So now there is a second c.net around😉

Steve, do you remember, how it took me 30 years to get that piccolo Aeola off you 🤪

I contacted the seller. They bought a collection of rare musical instruments including the two Aeolas...

Did you buy the one from ebay.com?