What Bandon Config Might This Be?

[ceemonster]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-well-maintained-ELA-Arnold-Bandoneon-register-early-40s-/170774414724?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27c2f2c584

 

can't discern if it's a chromatico, or a rare c-system bando, or a curtailed bisonoric of some sort.....any thoughts?

Edited February 5, 2012 by ceemonster

[shelly0312]

...that is a nice enough looking instrument to lead me to the dark side... Michelle

[BertramLevy]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-well-maintained-ELA-Arnold-Bandoneon-register-early-40s-/170774414724?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27c2f2c584

 

can't discern if it's a chromatico, or a rare c-system bando, or a curtailed bisonoric of some sort.....any thoughts?

 

 

definitely not a bandoneon though looks like it is in good condition ELA instruments are made by the father of Alfred Arnold - generally very good. Bandoneons have 6 rows with 8 buttons on the bottom row on right and 4 on the top in a rhomboid shape. This could be a chemitzer

 

Bertram

[Daniel Hersh]

http://www.ebay.com/...=item27c2f2c584

 

can't discern if it's a chromatico, or a rare c-system bando, or a curtailed bisonoric of some sort.....any thoughts?

definitely not a bandoneon though looks like it is in good condition ELA instruments are made by the father of Alfred Arnold - generally very good. Bandoneons have 6 rows with 8 buttons on the bottom row on right and 4 on the top in a rhomboid shape. This could be a chemitzer

 

Bertram

It's not a standard Chemnitzer or Carlsfelder/Karlsfelder - too many buttons. I thought that it might be some sort of expanded Chemnitzer but full-size Chemnitzers usually have four rows on the left hand and three on the right and this is the other way around. It could conceivably be an expanded Carlsfelder of some kind. Perhaps Harry Geuns will weigh in on this - he might know.

 

 

 

[ceemonster]

yes, i tried before posting to match it to some of the examples mr. geuns has posted, but came up empty, unless i'm missing something....thanks for answering, all, and perhaps more will be revealed.

[Daniel Hersh]

yes, i tried before posting to match it to some of the examples mr. geuns has posted, but came up empty, unless i'm missing something....thanks for answering, all, and perhaps more will be revealed.

I e-mailed Harry Geuns and he replied:

Hi Daniel,

 

It's a 120 tone "Einheits" concertina (fullrange has 128 tones)

 

bi-sonoric

 

"Chemnitzer" lay out

Produced 1935 - 1940

 

Tuning right hand Four voice L/M/M+/H or 16/8/8+/4ft.

 

Small handle adjacent to the air valve lever operates /activates Low voices 16'

 

Tuning left hand LMM 32-16-8ft.

 

Will Sound like a church organ

 

Regards

 

Harry

 

That having been said, I always thought that an Einheitskonzertina had four rows on each side, based on this diagram. I e-mailed Harry again to ask about this but have not heard back yet.