- Anglo Concertina in the Harmonic Style
- Easy Anglo 1-2-3
- Christmas Concertina
- Pirate Songs for Concertina
- Sailor Songs for Concertina
- Sea Songs for 20-Button Anglo Concertina
- Anglo Concertina from Beginner to Master
- A Garden of Dainty Delights
- Civil War Concertina
- The Anglo Concertina Music of John Kirkpatrick
- The Anglo Concertina Music of John Watcham
- The Anglo Concertina Music of Phil Ham
- The Anglo Concertina Music of Alan Day
- 19th Century Anglo
- Summer Symphony
- The Anglo Concertina: Handbook of Tunes and Methods for Irish Trad. Music
- 75 Irish Session Tunes for Anglo Concertina
- 75 More Irish Session Tunes for Anglo Concertina
- Cowboy Concertina
- 86 Swiss & German Folksongs for Anglo Concertina
- The Jeffries Duet Concertina Tutor
- House Dance
- Chris Droney of Bell Harbour
- The Anglo Concertina Music of William Kimber
- I Never Played to Many Posh Dances: Scan Tester, Sussex Musician, 1887-1972
- The Anglo Concertina Music of Scan Tester
- Praise the Lord and Pass the Concertina
- Traditional English Session Tunes
- 55 Christmas Songs from All Over the World for Anglo Concertina
- The Anglo Concertina Demystified
Anglo Concertina in the Harmonic Style
Learn to play chords and full harmonies and accompaniments on the 30-button C/G Anglo Concertina. Includes 60 tunes with easy-to-learn tablature, many transcribed from professional recordings.
108 pages, paperback, 8½
x 11
72 QR code links to videos
$30
Release Date: March 2013
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
Easy Anglo 1-2-3
The perfect beginner’s book for 10-button, 20-button, and 30-button C/G Anglo Concertina. Includes 35 tunes with explanatory notes and easy-to-learn tablature.
82 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
26 QR code links to videos
$15
Release Date: March 2015
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
Christmas Concertina
50 all-time favorite Christmas songs and carols arranged with harmonies for 30-button C/G Anglo Concertina, with easy-to-learn tablature and QR code links to YouTube videos of every tune.
112 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
51 QR code links to videos
$25
Release Date: November 2013
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
Pirate Songs for Concertina
For all ye who be wantin’ to play concertina like a real pirate, over 70 sea shanties, hornpipes, jigs and songs of the sea with full lyrics, music notation, chords, and easy-to-learn tablature for the 30-button C/G Anglo concertina.
148 pages, paperback, 8½ x 8½
32 QR code links to videos
$20
Release Date: June 2018
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
Sailor Songs for Concertina
88 more traditional sea shanties and songs of the sea, with full lyrics, music notation, chords, and easy-to-learn tablature for the 30-button C/G Anglo concertina. The arrangements are slightly more difficult than in Pirate Songs for Concertina .
175 pages, paperback, 8½ x 8½
24 QR code links to videos
$25
Release Date: May 2019
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
Sea Songs for 20-Button Anglo Concertina
96 traditional sea shanties and sea songs from Pirate Songs for Concertina and Sailor Songs for Concertina , arranged for 20-button C/G Anglo. With full lyrics, music notation, chords, and easy-to-learn Anglo concertina tablature.
188 pages, paperback, 8½ x 8½
40 QR code links to videos
$25
Release Date: May 2020
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
Anglo Concertina from Beginner to Master
Learn how to play the 30-button Anglo concertina from master concertina player Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne. Includes different keys, modes, ornamentations, and a variety of styles of accompaniment in the harmonic style.
72 tunes and exercises with a simple easy-to-use tablature system along with standard musical notation, plus specially recorded videos.
145 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
75 QR code inks to videos
$25
Release Date: September 2022
Contact Homewood Music:
(205)910-8262
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A Garden of Dainty Delights
More than 40 tunes popular in the 16th to 18th centuries, arranged by Adrian Brown and presented with full chords and accompaniments.
Includes Anglo tablature for both Jeffries and Wheatstone / Lachenal systems for 30-button C/G Anglo concertina, plus QR code links to videos for every tune.
155 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
45 QR code links to video
$30
Release Date: October 2018
Contact Homewood Music:
(205)910-8262
bob@homewood.net
Civil War Concertina
60 songs and tunes from the time of the American Civil War, for 20-button C/G Anglo Concertina, many with full harmonies and with complete lyrics.
All have easy-to-learn Anglo concertina tablature and QR code links to YouTube videos.
120 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
61 QR code links to videos
$25
Release Date: May 2014
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
The Anglo Concertina Music of John Kirkpatrick
Over 70 tunes from England’s premier Anglo concertina player, with music notation and tablature for 30-button C/G Anglo concertina, includes QR code links to audio and video.
144 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
74 QR code links to videos
$27.50
Release Date: October 2021
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
The Anglo Concertina Music of John Watcham
50 tunes from one of England’s most famous Morris Dance musicians and Anglo concertina players, with music notation and easy-to-learn tablature for 30-button C/G Anglo concertina. Includes QR code links to audio and video.
98 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
73 QR code links to audio and video
$25
Release Date: July 2020
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
The Anglo Concertina Music of Phil Ham
Phil Ham has been playing the Anglo concertina for over 75 years, and he is the most influential early innovator playing in the harmonic style.
Includes over 60 of Phil’s tunes and songs transcribed for 30-button C/G Anglo concertina. With music notation and easy-to-learn tablature, plus QR code links to historical recordings of every tune.
119 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
61 QR code links to audio
$20
Release Date: November 2022
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
The Anglo Concertina Music of Alan Day
One the leading proponents of harmonic-style Anglo concertina for the past 60 years, Alan Day has also composed close to a hundred tunes in the traditional style.
116 pages, paperback, 8.5 x 11, B/W
82 QR code links to videos
$25
Release Date: March 2024
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
19th Century Anglo
65 tunes especially arranged for the Anglo concertina, collected and curated from 16 historical tutors written between 1837 and 1889 for the 20-button German concertina and the Anglo-German concertina.
Includes scans of the original music plus updated notation and easy-to-learn tablature.
53 of the 65 tunes can be played on a 20-button Anglo concertina.
149 pages, paperback, 8.5 x 11, B/W
$25
Release Date: January 2024
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
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Summer Symphony
Patriotic marches, light classics, and ragtime tunes arranged by Alan Lochhead. 13 tunes with music notation and tablature for 30-button C/G Anglo concertina. Difficult arrangements! Previously released by Mel Bay Publications as the All-American Concertina Album , but now reformatted with the same Anglo tablature used in Rollston Press concertina books.
76 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
13 QR code links to audio
$20
Release Date: July 2020
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
The Anglo Concertina: Handbook of Tunes and Methods for Irish Trad. Music
Written specifically for the 30-button C/G Anglo concertina by renowned Irish concertina player and builder Frank Edgley in 2001, this 3rd edition replaces the previous CD’s with 48 QR code audio files.
It will teach you keyboard patterns and techniques, plus embellishments and ornaments to give Irish traditional music that characteristic lilt.
105 pages, paperback, 8.5 x 11, B/W
48 QR code links
$30
Release Date: December 2023
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
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75 Irish Session Tunes for Anglo Concertina
Popular Irish reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, slip jigs and airs for 30-button C/G Anglo Concertina. Includes 75 tunes with easy-to-learn tablature.
38 of the tunes can be played on a 20-button Anglo concertina.
114 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
$30
Release Date: July 2015
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
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75 More Irish Session Tunes for Anglo Concertina
The long-awaited follow-up to the popular 75 Irish Session Tunes for Anglo Concertina (Rollston Press, 2015), specifically notated for the 30-button C/G Anglo Concertina.
Included are 75 more traditional Irish session tunes in standard musical notation with easy-to-understand tablature.
36 of the tunes can be played on a 20-button Anglo concertina.
109 pages, paperback, 8.5 x 11, B/W
$30
Release Date: February 2024
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
Cowboy Concertina
75 mostly traditional songs of the old American West with full lyrics, music notation, chords, harmonies, and easy-to-learn tablature for 30-button C/G Anglo concertina. Includes QR code links to videos of every tune.
176 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
78 QR code links to videos
$25
Release Date: October 2018
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
86 Swiss & German Folksongs for Anglo Concertina
Barbara Steinger from Akkordeonschule Aarau has carefully selected and arranged 86 traditional folksongs from Switzerland and Germany to be played on the 30-button C/G Anglo concertina.
With full lyrics, music notation, chords, and easy-to-learn Anglo concertina tablature.
193 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
86 QR code links to videos
$26
Release Date: March 2023
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
The Jeffries Duet Concertina Tutor
A first-ever comprehensive tutor for the rare and unusual duet concertina known as the Jeffries Duet. Includes special tablature and arrangements of over 80 tunes in a wide variety of musical styles from super simple to ridiculously difficult, plus QR code links to audio and video.
198 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
79 QR code links to audio and video
$30
Release Date: February 2020
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
House Dance
Dance music played on the Anglo concertina by musicians in Ireland, England, Australia, and South Africa in the House Dance Era.
Includes schottishes, polkas, quadrilles, waltzes, mazurkas, and varsoviannas, plus bios of concertina players past and present who play for old-time house dances. 27 tunes and QR code links to 176 audio files.
291 pages, paperback, 8 x 10
176 QR code links to audio
$20
Release Date: February 2022
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
Chris Droney of Bell Harbour
This book by Dan Worrall examines the history of North Clare concertina player Chris Droney and his family, as well as his distinctive way of playing the concertina.
It also includes a detailed tutorial with audio files for learners, and detailed, accurate transcriptions of over 130 of his tunes.
260 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
17 QR code links to audio
$20
Release Date: April 2023
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
The Anglo Concertina Music of William Kimber
An in-depth biography of influential concertina player William Kimber along with a history of the village of Headington Quarry in Oxfordshire, England.
Includes an analysis and tutorial of his unique playing style, plus transcriptions of all 56 of his recorded tunes.
339 pages, paperback, 8.5 x 11, B/W
99 QR code links to audio
$30
Release Date: November 2024
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
I Never Played to Many Posh Dances: Scan Tester, Sussex Musician, 1887-1972
After being out-of-print for many years, Reg Hall's wonderfully detailed biography of Sussex village musician and concertina player Scan Tester is now available in paperback and Kindle.
Originally published in 1990.
148 pages, paperback, 8.27 x 11.69 (A4)
$20
Release Date: July 2024
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
The Anglo Concertina Music of Scan Tester
Scan Tester's unique style of playing the Anglo concertina is presented here in musical notation and tablature, along with QR codes of Scan’s playing. Includes a foreword by Will Duke.
This book is published in conjunction with Reg Hall’s I Never Played to Many Posh Dances (Rollston Press, 2024).
104 pages, paperback, 8.27 x 11.69 (A4)
45 QR code links to audio
$25
Release Date: September 2025
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
Praise the Lord and Pass the Concertina
50 popular church hymns and gospel songs arranged for the C/G Anglo concertina.
Includes lyrics, music notation, and tablature, plus QR code links to videos.
113 pages, paperback, 8.5 x 11, B/W
31 QR code links to videos
$30
Release Date: October 2024
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
Traditional English Session Tunes
65 of the most popular traditional English session tunes, with tablature for the C/G Anglo concertina so you can join local music sessions and play the tunes in the standard keys of G and D.
Also includes over 100 QR code links to videos of traditional musicians who you can play along with, from solo fiddlers to full sessions to loud folkrock.
93 pages, paperback, 8.5 x 11, B/W
126 QR code links to videos
$25
Release Date: November 2024
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
55 Christmas Songs from All Over the World for Anglo Concertina
55 Popular Christmas songs from all over the world arranged for Anglo concertina by Barbar Steinger from Akkordeonschule Aarau in Switzerland. With musical notation, chords, lyrics, and tablature for Anglo concertina.
148 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
QR code links to future YouTube playlist
$25
Release Date: November 2025
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
bob@homewood.net
The Anglo Concertina Demystified
11 lessons for the 30-button C/G Anglo concertina by Bertram Levy, first published in 1985 and reissued with QR code links to the original audio files. Uses Bertram's own unique button numbering system.
73 pages, paperback, 8½ x 11
74 QR code links to audio
$30
Release Date: January 2021
Contact Homewood Music:
(205) 910-8262
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Easy
Anglo Concertina Tablature
The Keyboard for 30-button C/G Anglo Concertina
The notes and button numbers with pitches shown in abc notation.
Tablature Example and Button Map
Notes on the right side of the instrument are shown above the staff. Notes on the left side of the instrument are shown below the staff.
The overhead line shows when to pull.
Dashed lines show notes to be held longer than one beat.
The Button Map shows the notes you need to play.
About
Rollston Press
Learn to Play the Concertina!
Founded in 2013, Rollston Press is the world's leading publisher of instruction books for the Anglo concertina, with well over twenty titles in print to date. They range from beginner to expert, teach a wide variety of musical styles, utilize the easiest notation and tablature system, include audio and video links. Specialized books showcase and teach the playing styles of the instrument's foremost players.
We've also published the first and only comprehensive tutor for the incredibly rare and unusual Jeffries Duet concertina.
Books with Audio and Video
Rollston Press was the first music publisher to enhance the printed page with smartphone-scannable QR codes linking to audio and video. And to date we've included well over fifteen hundred QR codes.