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Apologies, a little bit thread drift. 

This topic prompted me to dig out my own Harley (tina) and make a few observations that may be of interest.

The instrument, apart from a new bellows my late mum made and fitted some 40 years ago, is 'as made'.

A far as I am aware, little has been offered as regards the note to button allocation of known examples.

I offer the attached to remedy that and observe some anomalies?

This instrument seems to have been made as F/C.

Henry Harley tina obs.docx

 

Geoff

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On 5/27/2024 at 4:17 PM, Geoffrey Crabb said:

A far as I am aware, little has been offered as regards the note to button allocation of known examples.

I offer the attached to remedy that and observe some anomalies?

 

You'll find that offset of the inside row on some early German concertinas Geoff, and on some 39-key Jeffries Anglos too (I've converted several of them to "normal"), presumably to facilitate players who had learnt on German instruments with that set-up.

 

I was told it was known as "artistic fingering" on Jeffries instruments.

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Thanks for that Stephen, I have used "artistic fingering" for many years to describe my playing, 'many wrong notes in the supposedly right places'.  Well I was a maker not a player.

The complete opposite of Eric Morcambes famous "I am playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right places".

 

Stay well.

Geoff

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