Another Ebay Oddball--id?

[Daniel Hersh]

This 36-button 8-sided red pearloid concertina is on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/36-Button-Concertina_W...1QQcmdZViewItem . Anyone seen one of these before? Am I right in thinking that it's a Stagi/Bastari Anglo? But if it is, I didn't know that they ever made these with this many buttons or sides...

 

Daniel

[Paul Read]

And a friend pointed out this one to me. Strangest I've seen yet

Oddball

[shipcmo]

Yup,

That is a Bastari. Had one back in the 70s. As I recall they were for the South American market.

Cheers,

Geo

[Stephen Chambers]

And a friend pointed out this one to me.  Strangest I've seen yet

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Paul,

 

They look pretty strange, but it seems to have been a standard model up until the 1930's (I've seen them in trade catalogues that late). They often turn up on eBay.

[malcolm clapp]

Concerned about the description of the second concertina:

 

"...Bellows are in god condition..."

 

Presumably they are holey

 

I'm outa here....

MC

 

 

Edited to correct my own typo! (Nobody's perfect!)

Edited September 22, 2005 by malcolm clapp

[Daniel Hersh]

Hmmm....I didn't even know that a South American market existed, except for bandoneons. Was your concertina an Anglo with "extra" buttons or some kind of stripped-down bandoneon?

 

Daniel

 

Yup,

That is a Bastari.  Had one back in the 70s.  As I recall they were for the South American market.

Cheers,

Geo

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[Richard Morse]

There is a very sizable South African concertina market. So large that Wheatstone and Bastari made models expressedly for export to those areas. The Boer concertina players have developed their own distinctive style of playing concertina which requires extra bellows folds....

 

Sean Minnie (from the Republic of South Africa) was at this year's NESI and gave us all wonderful insight into what Boermusic is about. There's an article on concertina.net about South African concertinas here and a nice website all about Boer music and the concertina in South Africa by Sean Minnie here.

 

Oops... I just realized that you folks were talking about the South American market, not South African. Please ignore!

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[Stephen Chambers]

Hmmm....I didn't even know that a South American market existed, except for bandoneons.

Daniel,

 

There was some dicussion of the concertina in South America in this thread.

 

For that matter, they played them in Antigua too :

 

 

As witnessed by this post card of Thomas Joseph.

[Stephen Chambers]

For that matter, they played them in Antigua too ...

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Not forgetting the ripsaw music of the Bahamas !

[Daniel Hersh]

I've corresponded with the fellow who outbid me for the 36-button 8-sided Italian Anglo that started this thread, and here's some info that he sent me about it:

 

"The extra low button on the treble side C row is G on open & F on close. G row, Bb & Ab. Accidental row, C sharp & Eb. Bass side C row top button, E on open & Bb on close. G row, Ab & F. Acc. row, C sharp & F sharp (...) Incidentally,this has to be the largest concertina that I have ever seen.It's 9 1/2 inches tall & 30 inches with the bellows fully open. It sounds as if 2 sets of reeds sound on playing."

 

 

Daniel