Fingering Layout-Anglo C/g...jeffries?

[SusanW]

Hi,

I am planning (soon I hope) to upgrade to a Morse Ceili (Anglo C/G), from a Rochelle.

I tried one this past weekend at the NE Concertina Workshop and (of course) I really liked it. A few folks I talked to said that the Jeffries fingering layout would be better than the Wheatstone for playing Irish music. A few other folks suggested doing a custom layout to give more options for playing C#. i.e. having the 2nd button in the accidental row (RH) do a C# on both the push and draw.

I'm interested in opinions here....please comment.

Thanks! Susan

[Ken_Coles]

I'm convinced all three layouts (Wheatstone, Jeffries, and Irish double-C#) work fine, because they have all persisted. If one were clearly superior it would be the only one in use. You find a way to play the D scale on each, and off you go. This is what I concluded over a decade ago. Pick one (or buy the nicest box you come across) and go with it. I can go back and forth between W. and J. layouts now if I take a few minutes for a brain reset.

 

Ken

[felix castro]

Hello, I have my main concertinas with wheatstone/lachenal layout and the C# doubled, and I put the D# in a different button as they were 32, or more buttons, concertina.

Now I have just adquired a concertina with the Jeffries Layout, and by now I can say, as that I thought that would be more difficult switch from one system to the other one. Surely I shall put both C#s in the first button, as I have in the another concertinas.

Of course, the lack of the press A in the accidental row of the righ side makes me change some bellows phrasing, and in the other hand, the Jeffries system i. e. have the pull G and Bb moved one button to the right, compared with the wheatstone system, but they are still there.