Is Juergen Suttner still repairing the concertinas he has made?

[edmuund]

I have been playing a Suttner 39-key C/G Anglo since about 1990 and have accumulated a few idiosyncrasies  which I would like someone to fix.  I can’t seem to get Mr. Suttner by phone or email. Does anyone know whether he is in the business of making repairs to the fine instruments he’s built over the years. 

[Mike Acott]

Hello, I contacted Jurgen a few months ago and He says he is no longer making concertinas, my request was for some buttons but he declined to help. 

Mike

[Jake Middleton-Metcalfe]

2 hours ago, Mike Acott said:

Hello, I contacted Jurgen a few months ago and He says he is no longer making concertinas, my request was for some buttons but he declined to help. 

Mike

If I remember Jürgen once told me that Wim Wakker used the same buttons as they collaborated to some degree on sourcing the caps, it might be worth seeing if you could buy them if what you need is the same buttons used on a suttner concertina. 

 

I hope I have remembered this correctly it is from a conversation about ,6 years ago.