allan atlas Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 GOOD FOLKS: I am trying to locate the whereabouts of the following nineteenth-century Wheatstone concertinas (assuming that they're even alive): 4004, 4157, 4606, 11502, and 13149 all five instruments were either sold or rented to BALFOUR during the 1850s/60s. . . . .enquiries to the family have gone for naught. . . . . any information will be generously acknowledged in a forthcoming article on which i'm working .................... Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan atlas Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 FOLKS: well. . . .guess no one has any of those instruments. . . . . .as i said. . . . .they may have had their last gasps squeezed out of them long ago . . . allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 . . . .guess no one has any of those instruments. . . . . .as i said. . . . .they may have had their last gasps squeezed out of them long ago . . . allan, I'd leave it a bit longer than that if I was you, before jumping to any conclusions. I think everybody's gone on holiday at the moment, seeing that nobody seems to be posting today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan atlas Posted August 13, 2006 Author Share Posted August 13, 2006 STEPHEN: leave it i will. . . . .there's no great rush. . . .and you're probably right about people being away. . . . . . wonder if any of those instruments are among the four that he was supposed to have given to family members at the very end of his life. . . . . . .identifying the instruments is not of earthshaking importance. . . .but it would be nice to be able to say just what they were. . . . . .unfortunately, the ledgers shed no light on the matter. . . .which may, of course, imply that they were all trebles we know that he played trios with another concertinist -- richard strutt (brother of the famous physicist john william strutt, who won the nobel prize for isolating argon) and with mary gladstone at the piano. . . .we also know that at one session they played through Beethoven piano trios. . . . .it would have been nice if they had a bass concertina to take the cello part. . . . . .they also played duets (two concertinas, with piano playing the orchestral part) from FIDELIO. . . .again, they would have needed something that could go below the treble's low "g". . . . .on the other hand, since it was a rather informal affair, one of the guys could simply have transposed up an octave when necessary..................allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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