I've Listed My Wheatstone Bass/baritone On Ebay

[harryandoval]

After reading and pondering and worrying for the last month, I've listed the Wheatstone Bass/Baritone you've all helped me get to know. I pick it up every hour or so and have listened to it sing to me and have talked to it as I played. No, I'm not looney, yet, but probably will be some day if I keep finding interesting estate sale instruments.

 

My ebay feedback should tell you some things about my selling abilities. Please check out my auction and know that I would never intentionally mislead. The item number is: 220183678211. I'm not sure how to put a link in here to it. I hope it will find a new welcoming home. Enjoy!

here's the link. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...E:IT&ih=012

[Chris Ghent]

This is an very interesting concertina. Of note, the chamber layouts and sizes, the riveted reeds, the frames screwed to the pan, the spade shaped tips on the low notes, the recessed higher notes. Great to see so much history with the item also, makes for a good read.

 

Chris

[harryandoval]

This is an very interesting concertina. Of note, the chamber layouts and sizes, the riveted reeds, the frames screwed to the pan, the spade shaped tips on the low notes, the recessed higher notes. Great to see so much history with the item also, makes for a good read.

 

Chris

Thank you for the compliment on the auction. I have a bidder on it, it's not one of the 3 offers I mentioned in the description. The auction is in what my wife and I call the "doldrums". We do have a concertina player coming to our home tomorrow to play it. We and the children are excited in anticipation.

[Pete Dunk]

$3,650. Somebody got a real bargain there, I expected it to get well over $4000. Hope it found a good home with a keen player rather than a collector.

[JimLucas]

$3,650. Somebody got a real bargain there, I expected it to get well over $4000. Hope it found a good home with a keen player rather than a collector.

It did.

(Not me, but I know who.)

[harryandoval]

$3,650. Somebody got a real bargain there, I expected it to get well over $4000. Hope it found a good home with a keen player rather than a collector.

It did.

(Not me, but I know who.)

 

I met the person and she is very nice. I felt that she would take good care of it.

Once again I must say thank you to everyone who helped me put this together. Happy Holidays!

[Polly Wilson]

The good news (to my mind) is that this lovely instrument is not sitting on a shelf somewhere, in a collection, and the better news (to my mind) is because it lives with me now. I love it! I had been calling it the Greg Brown of concertinas, but I like the idea of a deep woman's blues voice, so perhaps it is not 'Greg' at all.

 

I did make the drive down to see the instrument before the auction ended, and a break in the middle of a 19 hour loop of a drive was not conducive to finding it playable, but now that it is here and I have realized I don't have to 'think' about it being single action as much as just allow for inhalation as a singer would, it is quite the treat to play. I love the voice. I am sure a lot of you concertina heavyweights could do it more justice than I can, but by god I will enjoy trying!

 

And I DO have to thank Jim Lucas in print for being more than willing to get a phone call in the middle of the Denmark night to listen to a tired driver fumble around with the biggest concertina she had ever hefted!

[Dirge]

I think lots of us, including people like me who wouldn't know where to even start with something like that, looked at it wistfully and thought what a wonderful thing it is, and how much fun it could be, so congratulations, Polly.