How many 81 key MacCanns?

[Martin Essery]

I am awaiting receipt of an 81 key Aeola MacCann. What a behemoth! I shall name him Brutus Maximus 😄 I was wondering how many of that size were made? Is there a record? This one comes with the original purchase receipt for Feb. 1925. Is that 29980 the stock number? Where would I look to confirm when I have the instrument?

 

[Bill Crossland]

Neil Wayne has an 81 and an 84 in the Concertina Museum

[SteveS]

How about this monster (picture from The Salvationist)

 

Edited July 15, 2023 by SteveS

[Martin Essery]

51 minutes ago, Bill Crossland said:

Neil Wayne has an 81 and an 84 in the Concertina Museum

The 81 is already copious in its breadth. I wonder which 3 notes were important enough to make an 84?

[Martin Essery]

18 minutes ago, SteveS said:

How about this monster (picture from The Salvationist)

 

Wow! A church organ in a box!

[John Wild]

http://www.horniman.info/DKNSARC/SD02/IMAGES/D2P0100D.JPG

[Martin Essery]

1 hour ago, John Wild said:

http://www.horniman.info/DKNSARC/SD02/IMAGES/D2P0100D.JPG

Thank you, so great to see when it was born. Silly me, of course the number is in the photo when I blew it up 😄 Having a look through that book from 1923 to 1935, around 20 other 81 key instruments were made, so, I am guessing in total that around 100 must have been made. I wonder how many still survive?

[4to5to6]

Ledger date is Dec 24, 1923 yet receipt appears to be Feb 14, 1925… over a year later.  It sat on the shelf for almost 14 months waiting to be sold???  Interesting.

 

I am curious.., what is the range of notes on each side?

[John Wild]

We might speculate that it  was a second-hand instrument, taken in part exchange. Possibly not the most likely explanation but within the range of possibilities.

[sadbrewer]

I have a similar instrument...unfortunately it is packed away at the  moment...I'll put my serial number on here asap.

 

 

Edit...mine is number 28100...May 12th 1919.

 

Edited August 14, 2023 by sadbrewer

[Martin Essery]

On 7/22/2023 at 4:58 PM, 4to5to6 said:

Ledger date is Dec 24, 1923 yet receipt appears to be Feb 14, 1925… over a year later.  It sat on the shelf for almost 14 months waiting to be sold???  Interesting.

 

I am curious.., what is the range of notes on each side?

Page 9 in the Rutterford Tutor 🙂
Rutterford-Duet-Concertina-Tutor-FourthEd.pdf

I bought it to play the Bach cello works at pitch. Long way to go yet.

[Theo]

I have 29406, which appears to be one of a batch of two, one ebony one nickel.

 

[d.elliott]

Fancy hand cutting that fretwork! be a bit of a bugger if you make a mistake.