New Hayden Duet Concertina for iPad/iPhone

[Don Taylor]

40 minutes ago, David Barnert said:

 

On the right hand side the Beaumont has both Eb5 and D#5. I’ve never had a look inside a Beaumont. Are they two separate pairs of reeds? I remember @judyhawkins once telling me about plans to run a string through a channel in the action box so either button would play the same reeds.

They are all separate reeds.  I was told that they tried to do what you say but that the result was not reliable.  They were really strapped for space on both sides and had to resort to using an accordion-like reed block for some of the reeds.

[jdms]

I know the Beaumont had two buttons linked together on the version they were showing in their booth at NEFFA when it first came out, though I don’t know which ones they were—there was a wire linkage between the two and they had it open to demonstrate it.