Peter Laban Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert stewart Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Hmm....as a Scottish musician, I might surmise that he was an English comedian? But no...he was indeed English, as discussed on this forum (died 1953, came from Yorkshire) but he was also a skilled concertina player. So the next challenge is to discover how to play bagpipes that look like a mockery of a concertina? Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiposx Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 Or someone had just thrown the chair at him... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 I can't see under his hands, but the concertina in his elbow is a Maccann duet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 On 3/8/2020 at 1:00 PM, JimLucas said: I can't see under his hands, but the concertina in his elbow is a Maccann duet. Yep, that's what he played - in fact I owned one of his back in the '70s, a piccolo Aeola duet with nickel-plated ends, gilt buttons, and amboyna veneers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Worrall Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 One of the places where Clevoner played was the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin -- a music hall. in 1921 “Jack Clevenor, described as the ‘wizard of the concertina’ extracted some rare music from concertinas of various sizes, and was greatly appreciated.” Thanks for posting the photo of him, Peter! Freeman’s Journal (Dublin), November 1, 1921, p. 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Here's another post card of him, from my own collection: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddyLosty Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 That'd make a good album cover for Cormac Begley...and His Wonderful Family of Concertinas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Pgidley said: That'd make a good album cover for Cormac Begley...and His Wonderful Family of Concertinas. Please, don't remind me, they give me nightmares - I have to fix them! ? Edited March 17, 2020 by Stephen Chambers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wes williams Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 (edited) Here's Jack with 'His Wonderful Family of Concertinas' circa 1915. Six Maccanns? and a miniature. Edited March 26, 2020 by wes williams Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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