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This is a modern English concertina, made by Holmwood. Holmwood's proprietor,
Hamish Bayne, has endeavored to reduce the amount of hand crafting (and
thus the cost) needed to make a concertina by using computer-controlled
machines to make many of the parts. It helps but there is still much hand
finishing to be done (and he still makes the screws himself). In spite
of all the technology, this is a high quality instrument that delights
its owners |
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A Wheatstone bass concertina with rosewood ends. Concertinas with deeper
voices were mostly used in concertina bands which were popular in mill
towns in the North of England at the end of the nineteenth century. |
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This English concertina is a Lachenal Edeophone. Louis Lachenal was
a Swiss toolmaker who worked as Wheatstone's production engineer. He left
to start his own concertina business in the late 1800s. Lachenal called
his 12-sided deluxe line of concertinas Edeophones. They try to escape
if you put them down on a sloping surface. All those round concertinas
you see in cartoons are probably badly-drawn Edeophones. |