David Aumann Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 Can I get help dating this weird Lachenal that I have posted here twice before (1999 and 2014). It's a 28-key instrument with all buttons on one end and nothing on the other. Serial number is 70510. Thanks so much. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tiposx Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 Hi Dowright I wonder if you could help me by dating another one of mine - a Lachenal ec tutor model? It is numbered 43365 Many Thanks Tiposx Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dowright Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Tiposx, No 43365 Circa 1905 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tiposx Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Thanks again Dowright! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andy Morris Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Hi to all, I recently purchased an old Lachenal 20 button Anglo for the princely sum of £12 plus postage, I am seriously considering getting it restored and have been in contact with Dave Elliott at concertina repair about this. I am wondering if anyone would be able to give me an idea of when it was made? The serial number is 103779 and is labeled Lachenal and co? thank you ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andy Morris Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Here are some photos Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dowright Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Andy, No 103779 Circa 1888 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andy Morris Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Thank you Dowright, that is incredibly kind of you, it’s in a sorry state but I’m resolute that it will be brought back to its former glory! Thank you again ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Aumann Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Hello Dowright, can you please date a Lachenal a 28-key anglo serial number 70510. It's the one shown a couple of posts further up the page, with all buttons on one end? I think Lachenal only began anglo production about 1862, so I'd hazard a guess at 1870-1880, but I'm curious. Thanks, David Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tealeaf Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 I'd be very interested to have an estimated date for my Lachenal. Rosewood ended 30-button anglo with steel reeds. Serial on reed pan is 147438. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dowright Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 David, No 70510 Circa 1882 Tealeaf, No 147438 Circa 1896 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tealeaf Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 6 hours ago, Dowright said: David, No 70510 Circa 1882 Tealeaf, No 147438 Circa 1896 Thank you! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Aumann Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 21 hours ago, Dowright said: David, No 70510 Circa 1882 Tealeaf, No 147438 Circa 1896 Thank you so much, Dowright. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
d.elliott Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Hi Downright, I have a very early Louis Lachenal come in for restoration, I have never seen a Lachenal with this form of action-box casing design, and other than some terribly butchered thumb-straps, and a bit of dirt it is original inside, pads, crinkly valves, the lot. High quality brass reeds, rose wood ends original springs and serviceable, but tappy pads. The Serial is 8459. Would you advise what your database would indicate as an approximate date please? I am guessing around 1864, around the start of the American Civil War, which rather puts the instrument into a historical perspective. Many thanks Dave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stephen Chambers Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 22 hours ago, d.elliott said: ... I have never seen a Lachenal with this form of action-box casing design ... Is it that the fretwork and sides are all in one unit Dave, and that they lift off the pad board complete like they do on a typical German concertina? I've seen that on early examples of the 2 guinea "People's concertina". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
d.elliott Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 That's right Stephen, I have seen it used on some of the modern repro-concertinas, and on some of the East German stuff but not on a Lachenal. I guess there was a lot of prototyping going off in Louis camp at the time, he would be going through a productionisation process. What is interesting is that there is no gasket built in between the pad board and the the casing, but the wood working is so precisely produced. Dave. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sprunghub Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 On 6/14/2020 at 5:18 PM, David Aumann said: Can I get help dating this weird Lachenal that I have posted here twice before (1999 and 2014). It's a 28-key instrument with all buttons on one end and nothing on the other. Serial number is 70510. Thanks so much. I think these are really interesting - there was a one-side Crane on the market a while ago. I think the suggestion is that they were made for servicemen ( and presumably others ) who had lost an arm in conflict or accident. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Aumann Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 Stephen, the construction of the one good end is typical Lachenal anglo construction. Undo the bolts and the end splits in half, revealing the action. Take the whole end off and you get to the radial reed pan. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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