Concertinas At Sea: A History Of A Nautical Icon

[Mark Alan Lovewell]

I need to look deeper. The website www.angloconcertina.org recommended isn't in service. Anyone got a suggestion.

 

[David Barnert]

3 hours ago, Mark Alan Lovewell said:

I need to look deeper. The website www.angloconcertina.org recommended isn't in service. Anyone got a suggestion.

 

@Dan Worrall is a member of concertina.net. Why not send him a private message?

[Daniel Hersh]

 

This post from last year says Dan Worrall's paper The Concertina at Sea: A History of a Nautical Icon can be viewed and/or downloaded here: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/3988437/the-concertina-at-sea-the-anglo-german-concertina .  I just checked and it seems to still be there.

Edited December 20, 2023 by Daniel Hersh

[Takayuki YAGI]

10 hours ago, Mark Alan Lovewell said:

I need to look deeper. The website www.angloconcertina.org recommended isn't in service. Anyone got a suggestion.

This paper is now Chapter 4 of a book "The Anglo-German concertina - A social history" (Volume 1).

[Roger Hare]

3 hours ago, Takayuki YAGI said:

This paper is now Chapter 4 of a book "The Anglo-German concertina - A social history" (Volume 1).

I think this may be available as a download at:

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_1-thWE5XRmsC

[Mike Acott]

I have not read all comments but one point is that a good English with brass frames and steel reeds seizes up in temperatures below freezes, this fact that meant playing for the Morris in winter

was minimal as I was the first in the warmth of the bar.

Mike

[Dan Worrall]

Thanks Roger and Takayuki for posting the links. Both volume 1 and 2 of the Anglo concertina history (2008) are available for free reading on Google Books; just search on my name and the word concertina and they’ll pop up. And they are still being sold on Amazon!

[MJGray]

And well worth your time they are, too! Here are the Google Books links:

 

Volume 1 = https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Anglo_German_Concertina/1-thWE5XRmsC

Volume 2 = https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Anglo_German_Concertina/JKZO1aevsiIC

 

Thanks for writing them, Dan! I very much enjoyed reading them when I was first picking up the concertina.

 

-Mike

[Clive Thorne]

On 12/20/2023 at 6:00 PM, Mike Acott said:

I have not read all comments but one point is that a good English with brass frames and steel reeds seizes up in temperatures below freezes, this fact that meant playing for the Morris in winter

was minimal as I was the first in the warmth of the bar.

Mike

Any excuse, eh??😉