Wtb: Bastari Square 67B Hayden Duet Concertina Bandoneon

[MatthewVanitas]

Like the title says, looking for the big square Bastaria Hayden. I'm expanding my collection of Hayden/Wicki instruments. I have an Elise, a Beaumont, Stagi hex, searching for the right Wheatstone, and having a certain maker build me more...

 

This purchase is for my music education non-profit, so I'll be loaning the instrument out to musicians who can borrow it for gigs and recordings. I know these aren't the smoothest players, so I figure some of the folks who own them must have them mostly sitting in a closet doing nothing, so if that's you, rest assured I can put it to work getting played regularly and introducing novices to the world of concertinas. I'm based in Montreal, but also have an address in Paris I can have it sent to if you're in Europe, or Bogota if you're down south. Hope we can make a deal to get it out of the closet and playing!

Edited July 9, 2017 by MatthewVanitas

[Ken_Coles]

IIRC from posts many years ago, only 10 of these were made (Inventor would know). Good luck with the search.

 

Ken

[David Barnert]

I've only been aware of two bouncing around this side of the puddle. One, I think, is on the west coast (at least it was 20 years ago when I lost track of it) and the other is owned by Mike Knudsen in Maine ("ragtimer" of this forum, although he hasn't posted in over 5 years). I don't know to what extent he's still playing it.

[Don Taylor]

Member 'gwhlevy' in California has one - maybe the one David lost track of?

 

Again, he has not logged in for years although I did successfully PM him 3 years ago...

 

see: http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6609&p=69483

 

You also might try contacting Inventor offline.

[David Barnert]

Member 'gwhlevy' in California has one - maybe the one David lost track of?

 

That’s the one. I have no idea if Grant still has it.