hello everybody!! Answer is coming!!At first, please excuse my "broken english" (and how lucky you are: you cannot hear my french accent!)
I am Alain Chatry playing this concertina.
E. Pariselle told you its strory. It is a franflo, I bought it from Thomas Rastoin (salut Thomas, et encore merci pour m'avoir cédé ce bijou!!), and made By C and R Dipper(hello to you). For me it is really the best you can find, they work so good!
28 buttons right hand (3 rows: one is in D, second in G et third sharps and flats); 16 buttons left hand, bass and chords, and some notes just bass, so I have all the half tones in both directions (push and pull) because this instrument is bisonore. Even if it as diatonic accordion fingering, it is a real concertina, made like a concertina. I have an other one, (sold by my friend Emmanuel Pariselle (salut garçon!) made in Italy, but inside it is made like an accordion. You can see (and hear) it on youtube (I play in my room in an hotel somewhere in Laos, during a 3 months bicycle trip last winter):
This one is in G/C, with less buttons left hand.
The strap on the right hand: there was one, but I took it off; I play quebecois melodeon, and I prefer play just with the thumbstrap.
On this forum somebody wrote I had 2 different concertinas but in fact there is the same one. I just have my wonderful C. Dipper (black) and my italien (brown).
If you have others questions, don't hesitate.
Vive le concertina!!
