here's the reply i got for anyone just incase they were considering looking at these...
Dear Sean,
I have taken one apart to show the " works ".
Wouldn't it be hard to have blocks to allow the reeds to be placed round the " outside " in in a circle.
I suspect that you have never had an English concertina apart so cannot understand a different design where there wouldn't
be any blocks like you get in all the " budget " Martini, Stentor, Stephanelli, Scaralati, Hohner, Stagi & a few French ones too.
Theese sell between £200 & £800 or more. I understand that apart from being Italian made they are accordion type / shape reeds.
Very many thanks for taking the bother to write to me. Why not buy one & see if they get your aproval, if they do, & want to buy
quantity of them we supply you @ trade prices ( & allow the diff. of the first one as a credit on the new order )
B. r.,
J. P.