Marien Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 The fret work of this concertina differs from the lachenals I know. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-21-KEY-CONCERTINA-WITH-ORIGINAL-CASE-NO-RESERVE-/111010731565?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item19d8c1562d J.Gregory was a dealer, not a maker. Who could have been making this concertina? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Wooff Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Looks like a Lachenal to me. It has their trademark stamp on the handrail. The Fret cutting ,as with much of the work on concertinas at Lachenals and Wheatstones, was probably done on Piece work ( " a girl would be paid nine pence to make a bellows.. she'd take the cut out parts home and make it up on the kitchen table and bring it back to the factory 'n collect another")... so any one of several people could have cut the frets on a concertina... Take two 'identical' Concertinas and study the fret paterns.... are there any two the same ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marien Posted February 19, 2013 Author Share Posted February 19, 2013 Geoff, I guess you are right that every concertina is different, but not that much I suppose. This one misses the Clover 4 leaf in the pattern and that differs from the regular tradition on 20b mahogany Lachenals - so that's how I doubted - (even the early German imitations have it). Couldn´t it be one of the older lachenals from the period they started to make patterns in the middle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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