John Crabb C/G Anglo - SOLD ELSEWHERE

[Stephen Chambers]

Edited to add photo (below all the Photobucket images that STILL aren't displaying, after more than 3 weeks!)

 

This is an early John Crabb, 30-key + drone, C/G Anglo concertina with a gorgeous, sweet, velvety tone. It has solid (not veneered) rosewood ends, a riveted action and original steel reeds, numbered 1887 and probably made in the 1870s. (John Crabb was making Jeffries' concertinas in the 1870s/'80s, and this is made like one.)

 

It has been re-padded, re-valved and tuned to A=440 concert pitch.

 

 

 

Edited January 13, 2020 by Stephen Chambers
Edited because my photos aren't displaying here, and to reduce price

[Stephen Chambers]

Price reduced 10%

Edited January 13, 2020 by Stephen Chambers

[Stephen Chambers]

Seeing that my image-hosting service, Photobucket, is down (and growing ever-more problematic) over the past 5 days so that my photos are no-longer displaying here, I'm posting an external link - now deleted.

Edited January 13, 2020 by Stephen Chambers

[Stephen Chambers]

Edited to add image, because Photobucket is majorly down now, after two weeks without images:

 

 

[Stephen Chambers]

 

Edited January 4, 2020 by Stephen Chambers

[Stephen Chambers]

Here's a video of Cathy Cook playing the rosewood-ended Crabb I'm selling, though the sound quality doesn't really do justice to the richness and sweetness of the instrument's tone:

 

 

 

[Stephen Chambers]