Fabrik / F. Lange Concertina

[alkat]

I am looking for information on age and value on a concertina. I copied this information from the front of it: I found this in my dad's estate, do you know anyone who would be interested in purchasing this concertina?

 

Harmonika

Fabrik

F. Lang

Concertina

Vorm C.F. Uhlig

Chemnitz, Germany

Edited April 25, 2005 by alkat

[Stephen Chambers]

Hi,

 

The writing on it means that it was made at the concertina factory of F. Lange, formerly C.F. Uhlig, in Chemnitz, Germany.

 

Carl Friedrich Uhlig, in the town of Chemnitz, invented the German concertina, then a simple 10-key instrument, in 1834. It developed firstly into a two-row, 20-key model, from which later derived the Anglo-German concertinas played by many of the users of this website, and by 1840 a three-row, 28-key version, the start of what is called the Chemnitzer concertina, had appeared.

 

Friedrich Lange was Uhlig's son-in-law, and the business carried on into the early 20th century.

 

It is most likely a Chemnitzer concertina, which has been the main instrument of Polka musicians in the US and has many websites devoted to it, I would suggest you take a look at this page for some Chemnitzer history, where you will see a photograph of an early one from my own collection, or here.

[wes williams]

You can also read this thread for more info on

Uhlig

[alkat]

Hi,

 

The writing on it means that it was made at the concertina factory of F. Lange,  formerly C.F. Uhlig, in Chemnitz, Germany.

 

Carl Friedrich Uhlig, in the town of Chemnitz, invented the German concertina, then a simple 10-key instrument, in 1834. It developed firstly into a two-row, 20-key model, from which later derived the Anglo-German concertinas played by many of the users of this website, and by 1840 a three-row, 28-key version, the start of what is called the Chemnitzer concertina, had appeared.

 

Friedrich Lange was Uhlig's son-in-law, and the business carried on into the early 20th century.

 

It is most likely a Chemnitzer concertina, which has been the main instrument of Polka musicians in the US and has many websites devoted to it, I would suggest you take a look at this page for some Chemnitzer history, where you will see a photograph of an early one from my own collection, or here.

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