JimLucas Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 I've got a 48 with Crane & Sons label which looks a lot like yours - Lachenal serial no 256 on the insides. The right hand bar, which carries the Lachenal trade mark, also has a second number impressed into the wood - C & S 844, which I assume is a Crane & Sons number. However, my other Crane, a 56 'New Model', which a Lachenal-badged with serial number 693, also carries a 'C & S' number, partly obscured now by wear, which appears to have been 'C & S 08809'. I don't really know what is going on there, and I suspect no-one else does these days either. Interesting! Comparison with my own Crane & Sons instrument tells me that we have a topic here which deserves more focused attention, so rather than continue to hide the discussion here, I've started a new Topic in the Concertina History subForum. Here's the link.Please join me there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daviseri Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I've got a 48 with Crane & Sons label which looks a lot like yours - Lachenal serial no 256 on the insides. The right hand bar, which carries the Lachenal trade mark, also has a second number impressed into the wood - C & S 844, which I assume is a Crane & Sons number. However, my other Crane, a 56 'New Model', which a Lachenal-badged with serial number 693, also carries a 'C & S' number, partly obscured now by wear, which appears to have been 'C & S 08809'. Mine has s/n 60 and 60 internally too, and C&S 413 impressed into the right hand bar. It also has brass reeds. I'd love to hear those brass reeds. I remember trying a student model that hand only 30 something keys on it. Very Simple Lachenal, that my friend Howie let me borrow for a bit. I thought the brass reeds had such a sweet sound compared to the steel reeds. I now have a Wheatstone Aeola Crane from 1929 with steel reeds. It's beautiful, but sometimes, I think it would be nice to also have that small little brass reed crane to play softly in the evening, as my girlfriend is sleeping on the couch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Stout Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I get a lot of pleasure out of playing my soft, sweet voiced brass reeded rosewood EC from 1851. I also have a model 21 with metal ends and steel reeds that I can drive a whole roomful of dancers without using amplification. Good old variety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveS Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 (edited) I get a lot of pleasure out of playing my soft, sweet voiced brass reeded rosewood EC from 1851. I also have a model 21 with metal ends and steel reeds that I can drive a whole roomful of dancers without using amplification. Good old variety. The tenor-treble EC in my avatar is brass-reeded - it's an instrument I rebuilt. It plays surprisingly loud (I played it in a session the other week when my metal-ended TT dropped a pad), but yet is mellow enough for song accompaniment. I'm only just starting out on my Crane journey. Edited February 17, 2012 by SteveS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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