https://www.concertina.net/rss/1-home.xml/Concertina.net Home PageenI agree as soon I heard that Dave Brady played a Duet it all made sense. AlThu, 21 May 2026 15:21:16 +0000I think a duet is the logical choice for this, flipped end for end and played as a baritone ( ? ). I don't know about other systems but my Jeffries duet is fantastic played in this way. No squeakers and a nice meaty low end. high end on left knee held down by the right arm resting at the elbow. For a two handed player it's like having a second instrument. Left brain right brain thing.Thu, 21 May 2026 11:10:26 +0000Hi, I am looking for a high end Anglo concertina, preferably Jeffries or Suttner, but I would also be open to try a Crabb or Dipper. I am currently playing an intermediate range Marcus concertina so am in need of an upgrade. Please let me know if there are any available. I am based in Ireland. ThanksWed, 20 May 2026 20:41:19 +0000This performance is so good!Wed, 20 May 2026 17:23:19 +0000What follows is an opinion: To be honest with the right skill and trade specific knowledge making a concertina that is better than a historic Jeffries or Wheatstone concertina is mostly a matter of putting in more hours of work on a given instrument. It is very much possible and being done. That and having good equipment and design. But if all of the above conditions can be met the question is are you in a setting which allows you to put in more effort than say someone working at Wheatstone's in 1910 or something like that. I'm talking about quite objectively measurable things like response time, smoothness of action ect. Character of an instrument is a bit harder to define or replicate, as in "well you know I just prefer this 1969 crabb because it just has a certain something - you know"Wed, 20 May 2026 16:34:53 +0000I managed to get the two images into the post yesterday, with a few extra 'enters' to lay it out properly, using my android phone, but the display is too small to edit easily. My wife has just gone shopping, so I've further edited on my laptop (Win11, Firefox) to remove the two images below the 'Uploading Attachment' box, but couldn't see a way of removing that. Admin please feel free to see if you can remove it. My advice to any Windoze 7 users is therefore to use firefox, but not to try to upload images. It may be possible to link images from an external source somehow, which needs further investigation, but I seem to remember that this needed an https location for the images. The only other difference to report is that login now uses your email, rather than your user name, as I found when using the laptop.Wed, 20 May 2026 15:38:16 +0000The auctioneers have now updated the description and provided some extra photos which clearly show the serial number (4440, see final image) and original keyboard layout. The serial number is estimated as c.1925-1926 allowing for possible inaccuracies. There are 78 buttons, 34 left with 3 empty button holes, 44 right with 5 empty button holes.Wed, 20 May 2026 13:47:19 +0000You can see him on some Youtube videos with the Andre Rieu orchestraWed, 20 May 2026 11:30:14 +0000Correct, http://concertina.net does redirect to https://www.concertina.net, but I can't set up a redirect for https://concertina.net to https://www.concertina.net. I've been in touch both with the hosting provider and the domain registrar and it's just not something that is possible, there are various security and technical reasons for this, it's not something that is easy to do. You can google it... it's a thing. Best to just save and use a shortcut to make sure you access www.concertina.net, that will always work, regardless of whether your browser defaults to https:// (as all modern browsers should) or http://Wed, 20 May 2026 10:55:59 +0000I've been having strange problems accessing concertina.net from my laptop using Chrome. It works OK from my desktop in Chrome, or on the laptop if I use Edge rather than chrome. But with Chrome to http://concertina.net/ I get "concertina.net took too long to respond." I think the problem is triggered by use of http://concertina.net, rather than http://www.concertina.net (or https://concertina.net). Has anyone else seen this? It is usual these days for site names to work without the WWW.Wed, 20 May 2026 09:12:19 +0000Hey JK, It was I who won the auction for this concertina, much to my amazement. I had already started a cursory hunt for information on 'E.C. Henderson Maker' before the auction had concluded but had turned up nothing so I'm thrilled with the info you have dug up here. Nice research skills. With the knowledge that he was Glebe based I did manage to find some listings on a family tree site describing an Edwin Chapman Henderson 1869-1944, five children listed as being born in Glebe, died in the RPA in Newtown, a short walk up the hill from Glebe. A likely contender. Can't wait to get my hands on it. As you are interested, when I do, I will be sure to post all the details here. LachlanWed, 20 May 2026 06:49:00 +0000My first concertina was a 20 button Lachenal that had been tuned from Ab/Eb to G/D. Then I fancied a G/D bass, but the physics weren't working well. So I ended up designing a G/D with the D row down a 4th instead of up a 5th, and well, I'd never had an accidental row, so I made one optimized for G and D (but still technically chromatic)...Wed, 20 May 2026 03:56:08 +0000Thanks to the internet, many editions of Sands Street Directory are scanned. His full name seems to have been Edwin C. Henderson, he appears first in the 1898 edition, but but there seems to be a printing error, as he is listed as "E.E. Henderson". They lists him at the following addresses... 73 Glebe Road, Glebe "Henderson E.E., musical instrument repairer" (1898, 1899 editions of the directory) "Henderson E.C., musical instrument repairer" (1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907 editions). 167 St John's Road, Glebe "Henderson Edwin C.", without indication of his profession (1908 edition). 80 Derwent Street, Glebe "Henderson E.C." (1909 edition) "Henderson Edwin C." (1910, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1927, 1928 editions) "Henderson Edwin C., piano tuner" (1913, 1914 and 1917 editions). So his most active period in the music business was from 1898 to 1907. He is listed in the "Trades and Professions" section of the Directory under "Music sellers and musical instrument warehouses". In the times when he was listed as "Piano tuner", he also appears as such in the trades section of the book (1913-1917). The 1929 Directory does not list 80 Derwent St as an address, i.e. maybe the house was demolished? From that year onwards, there is no E.C. Henderson listed in Glebe.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:18:13 +0000This guy has all the above beat. No hands. (No reeds or bellows either, but impressive nonetheless.Tue, 19 May 2026 23:43:49 +0000Hammer price = £320Tue, 19 May 2026 22:56:25 +0000The "New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime" reports the following theft on 6 Aug. 1902... Here it is confirmed that it was indeed E.C. Henderson in Glebe, Sydney, who built concertinas at the turn of the 19th/20th century. "53 keys" indicates that he also seems to have built English concertinas, not only anglos. Have any of you seen any other concertinas made by E.C. Henderson?Tue, 19 May 2026 22:45:37 +0000I might bid on that one …Tue, 19 May 2026 21:45:00 +0000Know nothing about it, but at around £250 someone got an absolute bargain there.Tue, 19 May 2026 14:51:48 +0000It's certainly a good idea, as many of those buttons are duplicates anyway, and notes can mostly be found elsewhere on the 20 button [ 40 note layout available] to allow for extending the range.Tue, 19 May 2026 14:07:13 +0000Just from my own practical observations, as a user on forums, and certainly not criticising, as I love c.net, and is a great place...I use mobile version when not on my cluncky tablet, with its imobile cabled in set up...And I think the desktop set up is a lot easier to use than the mobile, as the screen is bigger, hence the layout is extended and better to use, whereas the mobile version is very much less choice in options as regards readability, and appearance. There's sometime the rule in on screen layout [I was advised] to favour mobile layout on setting up options, online, over desktop - however, I feel that the bigger screen is certainly an improvement. Long may it all continue.😊Tue, 19 May 2026 14:03:27 +0000Just a couple days ago [ in writing this post] I could hear my Blackbird singing part of a cheeful motif and repeating it many times over, in my garden. It was becomng quite an obsessive little tune, that I could repeat in my own human inner ear, and kept hearing it; so I just had to use it in a musical idea, and develop it further. So that's how this piece began; the simple motif repeats a few times, and also in the higher octave up [ more like the blackbird spoke it.] I am sure it's showing off to the other bird's now, everytime I hear it in my garden.Tue, 19 May 2026 13:52:27 +0000Some of you might have followed this concertina auction on Australian eBay... https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/267667459074 The seller was a Salvation Army store in Sydney. It was for the following instrument, which sold for AUD449. I assume the purchaser is in Australia, as the item was only listed for shipping within Australia. 32-Key anglo concertina Maker: E.C. Henderson. Metal ends, bushed metal buttons. 7-fold bellows with Lachenal-type bellow papers, gold tooling on the frames. The bellows seem to have had a rebind, as the leather along the edges looks quite new. The only description on condition in the listing was: "Sound comes out, seems to be working?". The concertina looked in nice condition externally, but of course we don't know, if it was actually working, if the bellows were sound, if there were air-leaks, if the action was working, whether pads were missing, etc. The maker seems to have been E.C. Henderson in Sydney. He is listed as "musical instrument repairer" in the 1904 Sydney directory, with the address: 73 Glebe Road, Glebe. An later newspaper ad stated a different address: "E.C. Henderson, Piano tuner and Repairer of all kinds of musical instruments. 80 Derwent St, Glebe". There are also several newspaper articles about a concertina player E.C. Henderson, who performed in Sydney and surrounds. I don't know, if this is the same person. I attach some photos here. It would be great, if the purchaser of the instrument could add some images of the action and the reed pans. Maybe with some comments on the concertina's condition? It would be interesting to know, if E.C. Henderson made everything himself? Did he re-purpose Lachenal or Jones concertinas and their actions and reeds to create new instruments under his own name? Have others heard of E.C. Henderson? And is more known about him and his work? Did he make many concertinas? Or am I totally wrong here and it is a totally different maker?Tue, 19 May 2026 11:12:19 +0000Uhhh, that is depressing David. I have never seen that before, my condolences. The only failure right at the front end of a clamp I ever saw was a case where the reed maker (lachenal) had filed a square notch out of the reeds tongue (the part which is under the clamp) because the bolt holes in the reed frame had been drilled slightly out of square and the bolt didn't allow space for the tongue. It eventually failed 100 years later.Tue, 19 May 2026 06:11:15 +0000At a guess, maybe 33% less? You still have the bellows and a blank end, but you lose the weight of the second reed pan, action, and buttons. As a two handed player, one advantage I noticed compared to a duet was that I could rest the heavy end with buttons on my thigh while pumping the bellows with the light end. Incidentally I believe you can easily remove the concertina from the box shown in the photo and play it as a standalone acoustic instrument.Tue, 19 May 2026 05:04:37 +0000Google Chrome no longer supports Windows 7. The final supported version for this operating system is Chrome 109, released on January 10, 2023. But I tried it, using the old versions on archive.org . That didn't work properly either, and was even worse than Firefox. Initially I couldn't log in as the 'sign in' box didn't work, but I managed to get it to work when I looked at one of the Forums. On all my posts the 3 dot (...) drop down at right didn't work either so I couldn't get to 'Edit'. In the problem post Firefox shows a 'Uploading Attachment' box and then the two images, but Chrome shows this box with a second line 'Unavailable'. No point in going any further, but you can see some of the problems that may crop up. So my next step is to try to liberate my laptop (Win11) from my wife, who is on it every waking hour after she broke hers!Mon, 18 May 2026 23:38:05 +0000Sorry about the 'wrong' forum, but that was where I'd posted a site problem a year or two back. Sorting out an alternative computer or browser continues for me, but at least we now know that some things aren't working on older systems ☹️Mon, 18 May 2026 21:18:25 +0000Correct, that was the wrong forum. The Official Business forum is for, well, official business. This "Forum Questions..." forum is open to all users.Mon, 18 May 2026 20:34:18 +0000Ah, I have a feeling it's an issue with the old operating system and browser. I just tested this with FireFox on a recent computer and operating system and it worked fine. I'd suggest trying Google Chrome maybe?Mon, 18 May 2026 20:33:24 +0000this is in reponse to Wes' observation which I can confirm, but I think it's asetting in this subforum.Mon, 18 May 2026 19:43:07 +0000I've had to start a new topic as there isn't a 'reply to this topic' after the admin reply on the previous topic. I'm using Firefox in Windoze 7. But to give a few more details, after adding the two images by drag and drop, the edit area was totally taken up by the two images display with no apparent way of exiting from that back to the text. I've also tried to edit the original post, but I get the images box in the bottom half of the edit area, and a rotating circle (ie something is in progress) in the top half. I'll try to dig deeper on the original post..... Edit: Trying to edit the original post; The only other thing I have in lower half of the edit area is a folder icon at top right, and a message invites me to add more attachments. Hover over the folder icon gives me an 'Insert exisiting attacment'. I click on that and select one or two of the images, but this then returns me to the to the display I started with.Mon, 18 May 2026 19:14:08 +0000