Pica Update

[allan atlas]

GOOD FOLKS: just to let everyone know: volume 2 of PICA is now available in its electronic version. . . . . .one can access it through the websites of either the International Concertina Association or the Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments. . . . .these are, respectively: www.concertina.org and

web.gc.cuny.edu/freereed. . . . . .

 

in addition, volume 3 is now in page proofs. . . . .there are three feature articles: one on the concertina in County Clare (Gearóid O'hAllmhuráin), another on Regondi at Oxford (Susan Wollenberg), and one on concertinas in Salvation Army bands (Les Branchett). . . . .in addition, there's a major review of Anglo International by Roger Digby. . . .a historical document that deals with references to the concertina in The Times (London) in 1860). . . .a review of Dan Worral's edition of Kimber by Jody Kruskal. . . . .the picture gallery presents a mid-19th-c. photo of Mary Baker with concertina in hand (she's the sister of the famous explorer Sam Baker who discovered Lake Albert). . . . .we hope that the issue will appear somewhere around the middle of October....................allan

Edited August 21, 2006 by allan atlas