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Hello !

While searching for Georgian miniature accordions, I found this website which shows 2 concertina photos and describes them as a Georgian folk instrument !!!

The concertina is at the back of the page :

http://www.hangebi.ge/photo_gallery.htm

Any informations about what this could be ?

The bellows look "home-made", whereas the ends are like a Wheatstone or a Lachenal...

P.

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Hello !

While searching for Georgian miniature accordions, I found this website which shows 2 concertina photos and describes them as a Georgian folk instrument !!!

The concertina is at the back of the page :

http://www.hangebi.ge/photo_gallery.htm

Any informations about what this could be ?

The bellows look "home-made", whereas the ends are like a Wheatstone or a Lachenal...

P.

 

Here is the same page in English. A little nosing around turned up very little information beyond this description from the same website (though for some reason I couldn't get to it by just clicking on a picture--instead, I got to both from a Google search by the instrument name): "Tsiko-tsiko came to Georgia from Europe in the mid-1830s. Tsiko-tsiko mainly accompanies dances." Judging by the pictures, I'd guess that "tsiko-tsiko" is the small Georgian accordion you were looking for (so you presumably knew that much already), but that the concertina falls under the same umbrella. The question of whether that's a recent development or concertinas (these are both English, I think, though the ends of the first one aren't really visible) arrived in Georgia along with accordions I will have to leave to those who know (as opposed to those who guess, like me).

 

jdms

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