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The next German Concertina-Meeting is only two weeks ahead ( 23. – 25. March 2012 ) – and we still have a few beds left! We have quite a few newcomers, but a couple of old customers didn’t register yet. Mary Macnamara will teach more of the secrets of Irish music – supportet by Claus Kessler. Adrian Brown and Rainer Schwarz will look after those diatonic players, who want to look beyond Irish music. Apart from a course in English concertina basics, Dave Townsend will do two units of band-work as well as one unit about classical music on the EC and one on traditional tunes from Cumbria. With a bit of luck Rainer Süßmilch will show us a few more aspects of the jazz-box… All teachers will be around to help the undecided and beginners. Now I do hope to be able to welcome a few more squeezers…. Robert ( www.concertinas.de ) PS: This years biggest German folk-festival in Rudolfstadt features the concertina. Amongst players from all over the world Alistair Anderson will be playing and Nils Meyn will present his collection an give a few talks on the concertina! At our irish-autumn-course this year Clus Kessler will teach Anglo-concertina! ( www.proitzer-muehle.de )

Anybody knows, what became of this?

As Theo says, they are a non-standard thread. I used to know the specs, but it should be possible to measure them... diameter, threads per inch (or per cm), thread depth. Dies can be made, but it would be a custom job and probably expensive. BUT... I have such a die, made for me years ago by Steve Dickinson. I'm pretty sure I know where it is, though I'm not there at the moment. If I can find it and if you're not in a great rush and if I can make it to your concertina weekend later this month (my schedule is still in flux), I'll be happy to bring it with me so that you can tap a few "nuts". (For what I hope are obvious reasons, I don't want to sell it or even ship it.) I sure hope that you can make it ;-) I have a set of Lachenal nut-plates, but they seem to have a different thread!?

I need to re-cut some threads for Wheatstone endbolts ( Aeola ). Anybody knows what exact thread they are and where to get a tap?

I can't wait to get the baby back from restoration! I asked David to convert it to F-tenor ( or alto, as I like to call this tuning ) by replacing and changing a few reeds ( we will keep the original reeds, though! ).

Quite obvious. Two clues: 1. The finger-rest is extended / longer than normal. Some tenors or baritone-trebles have this... 2. The lowest key is roughly in the middle of the finger-rest on a treble, at the lower end on a tenor.... The ledgers stated 48 key 19a ( normally a 64 key tenor treble ). However she has obviously metal-ends and not black ends, as the ledger states... It is definitely a special instrument. At a number over 33.000 it would normally have had the double-ring inlay, but this one has the old emblem, pointing to a special order!?!

Irene, it is in fact the one! If you check the link, you can clearly see that it is a 48 - key tenor! The ledger is wrong about the instrument!

PS: I love to play jazz on a F-Tenor concertina, that is, I play normal treble-fingering, but it sounds five notes down!!!

If you are into jazz on the ES concertina, come the the German Concertina-meeting in March ( check out www.concertinas.de!! ). There will be classes both for beginners and advanced players! Rainer Süßmilch will teach some Jazz-workshops ( together with Dave Townsend, Mary Macnamara and others ). You can hear him on the "English international" CD! I have some lovely unofficial recordings of him... My old friend and teacher, the late Piedro Valente, used to teach at the meetings and really inspired the German concertina scene. I have his CD, a video and great recordings from the meetings. Juliette Daum plays and sings some lovely jazz-melodies. Just search at youtube.com for Juliette Daum... She added some new tunes recently! I have been playing all kinds of music on the ES, including tango, French musettes and jazz-standards. I hope to record some youtubes soon. Recently I programmed my own backing-combo with band-in-a-box.

I just bought a 48- key Aeola tenor at ebay, which supposedly belonged to Alf Edwards. Does anybody know anything about this instrument or if Alf indeed played tenor? Any recodings or films?

The 21st annual German-Concertina-Meeting will take place form Fr. 23rd to Su. 25th March 2012 at the Proitzer-Mühle seminar-center in the North of Germany. After a great 20th anniversary meeting last year we re-invited Mary Macnamara from Ireland for the Irish-Anglo players and asked Dave Townsend over for the first time to look after the English-system players. Adrian and Susanna ( Dapper's delight ) from Holland will be there plus other German players and teachers including Rainer Süßmilch ( ES-Jazz ). Check out details at www.concertinas.de and look for the English version.

The 21st annual German-Concertina-Meeting will take place form Fr. 23rd to Su. 25th March 2012 at the Proitzer-Mühle seminar-center in the North of Germany. After a great 20th anniversary meeting last year we re-invited Mary Macnamara from Ireland for the Irish-Anglo players and asked Dave Townsend over for the first time to look after the English-system players. Adrian and Susanna ( Dapper's delight ) from Holland will be there plus other German players and teachers including Rainer Süßmilch ( ES-Jazz ). Check out details at www.concertinas.de and look for the English version.

I have been in touch with Sergio in Portugal in various mails. He is a photographer, not a musician - so his youtubes are better than his playing. He had several requests for more datails, so he put up three youtubes. As far as I can tell from his "playing", it is in old pitch... He told me that he really needs that money and that he is delighted with the sale - fair play to him!

I have seen many 64 key TTs, which extend both up and down. I personally would prefer a 56 key TT ;-)

I would advise you to get in touch with Mr. Chris Algar before you buy that one. He has several TT Aeolas in stock and you can take your time and try them all before you decide...

This instrument has been around a lot and has been discussed before here!. I have seen and played it at Chirs Algar's place about two years ago.

I am looking for a good or potentially good metal-ended tenor-treble Aeola, either restorded or as is!?!? Any offers please with PM or to robert ( at ) concertinas ( dot ) de. Thanks!

And by the way - my other dream-box is a baritone-treble, which I converted to F. Now I can play the box with normal fingering ( just one row down - I moved the finger-rest! ) just like a tenor-treble, but it will sound a fifth down - which is a phantastic range to play in! I can't get enough of that one ;-) Any experiences with F-boxes? I have an old Lachenal-tenor, which came in F ( played like a treble ). Here for interest sake a recording, which I made to demonstate a TT for sale, which I had converted to F.

I finally managed to create my dream-box: a few years ago I bought a fairly late piccolo-sized ( 5 1/2" ) treble Aeola. It had a lousy action and cheap metal ends... Recently I managed to exchange the ends with those of my ebony-ended piccolo ( 24xxx ). Now I have an ebony-ended piccolo-sized treble with great looks, amazing action and an incredible sound. I just love this little one!! Anybody ever seen one like it? I know that Bob from NY has a another metal-ended piccolo-treble... Any offers? PS: Don't worry - I can change them back in five minutes ;-)

I have seen this instrument about two years ago at Chris Algar's place. If I remember rightly the extra row is chromatic ( same note push and pull ). It is a unique and fine instrument, but very odd and quite big - more of a collector's item. You definitely want much more information about it or better get a chance to play it before you buy! I forget what Chris was asking - definitely less...

There is a similar modell 22 ( 7 folds! ) at ebay right now. Reserve not met! This one

One like it sold some 6 weeks ago at ebay for little over 1800 Sterling. Shortly after I bought one just like it off Chris Algar for 2000 Sterling ( six folds, fully restored ). Somehow the prices for concertinas seem to follow the shares right now - down....

I would recommend the new ZOOM Q3. It can record sound just like the H2, but can do videos as well. There is a very simple software to manipulate and cut the recordings. And you can uplaod directly to youtube. A great litte thing!

Does anybody know, what happened to this one? I am looking for a tortoiseshell miniature!!?!

There are two nice 46-key Wheatstone MacCanns at ebay.com right now: This one and this one. Would they be Linotas? Pity again that I don't play duet...