Looking For 56 Button English Layout Diagram

[richard]

Hello

 

Could someone offer me a link to a 56 button English layout diagram. It is for an Edeophone. I am not sure if that means it is a tenor/treble or something else. What would the possibilities be?

 

Thanks,

 

Richard

[Greg Jowaisas]

Concertina.com has a number of standard layouts for various systems. A treble layout is pictured in their opening english concertina section. You will need to add 8 high notes to complete a 56b extended treble or 8 low notes to complete the layout for a tenor/treble.

 

The Wheatstone price lists, pictured later on in the english concertina section, also contain a treble layout along with equivalent musical notation.

 

Between cnet and ccom there is a wonderful world of information to explore.

 

Greg

[JimLucas]

Could someone offer me a link to a 56 button English layout diagram. It is for an Edeophone. I am not sure if that means it is a tenor/treble or something else. What would the possibilities be?

Well, I have a 56-button bass, but I doubt that's what you have.

 

If your lowest note is G below middle C, then you have an extended treble. If it's C an octave below middle C, then you have a tenor treble.

 

Concertina.com has a number of standard layouts for various systems. A treble layout is pictured in their opening english concertina section. You will need to add 8 high notes to complete a 56b extended treble or 8 low notes to complete the layout for a tenor/treble.

It should be added -- just in case you haven't already noticed -- that extending the layout is entirely "according to rule". The pattern of the two middle "columns" continues (both upward and downward) with the notes of the C scale, zig-zagging in thirds on both ends, and next to each natural note is the same accidental that's next to it in every other octave. Though the number of buttons is not identical in all columns of the right hand ( to complete an octave on C or G, there's an "extra" button in one column and an accidental "missing" from another), the buttons that are there should all match the notes on their locations in the extended pattern.

 

And yes, the pattern can be extended further. I have two 64-button instruments; I've seen a 72-button; and I've seen photos of an English that had 84 buttons.