Is This A Lachenal Jeffries Duet?

[Chris Timson]

Here on ebay. Note that it has 46 buttons and the vendor says it plays the same note on the pull as the push.

 

Chris

[Dirge]

Just a tiddler Maccan, isn't it? 6 vertical rows of buttons?

[JimLucas]

Here on ebay. Note that it has 46 buttons and the vendor says it plays the same note on the pull as the push.

The auction text says 36 buttons (twice, as it's in both the title and the body), but it's clearly 46 (the RH end is visible in the full photo of the case).

 

Just a tiddler Maccan, isn't it? 6 vertical rows of buttons?

Standard Maccann. Sure looks like it to me.

• Maccann: 6 vertical columns ("vertical rows") of buttons, though not the same number of buttons in each column
  
• Jeffries: 4 horizontal (slightly arced) rows of buttons (plus thumb button in LH), though not the same number of buttons in each row, and offset from each other so that "columns" are raked (at an angle from the vertical)
  

I think that larger (more than 58 buttons?) Jeffries duets might have 5 rows instead of only four (I don't have a layout handy), but even this 44-button layout has a 7-wide row in the right hand, where the Maccann is always 6-wide.

[PeterT]

Here on ebay. Note that it has 46 buttons and the vendor says it plays the same note on the pull as the push.

The auction text says 36 buttons (twice, as it's in both the title and the body), but it's clearly 46 (the RH end is visible in the full photo of the case).

 

Just a tiddler Maccan, isn't it? 6 vertical rows of buttons?

Standard Maccann. Sure looks like it to me.

• Maccann: 6 vertical columns ("vertical rows") of buttons, though not the same number of buttons in each column
  
• Jeffries: 4 horizontal (slightly arced) rows of buttons (plus thumb button in LH), though not the same number of buttons in each row, and offset from each other so that "columns" are raked (at an angle from the vertical)
  

I think that larger (more than 58 buttons?) Jeffries duets might have 5 rows instead of only four (I don't have a layout handy), but even this 44-button layout has a 7-wide row in the right hand, where the Maccann is always 6-wide.

Hi Jim,

 

The Lachenal Maccann vendor amended the description from 36 to 46 buttons.

 

On the Jeffries Duet layout, I have only seen keyboards for four row instruments. The "larger" instruments, like 58 key, had the extra buttons at the ends of the rows (at the top, from the playing position) giving more of an overlap between the two hands.

 

Regards,

Peter.

[Chris Timson]

Yeah, I think you're right. It's the fairly substantial rake that caught me out.

 

Cheers,

 

Chris