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	Concertina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Concertinas typically have buttons on both ends and are distinguished from an accordion (piano or button) by the direction of their button travel when pushed.
		The Anglo concertina is often associated with the music of Ireland, although it is used in other musical contexts as well, particularly in music for the English Morris dance.
		The English concertina is typically held by placing the thumbs through thumb straps and the little fingers on metal finger rests, leaving three fingers free for noting; alternately, both the ring and pinkie fingers support the metal finger rest, leaving two fingers for noting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Concertina (890 words)

	Encyclopedia: Concertina
		Although there are more makers that use accordion type reeds in concertinas, we are the only ones that have succeeded in altering the harmonic spectrum of accordion type reeds, coming very close to the sound of traditional concertina reeds.
		Concertina reeds were developed in the 19th century, and miss the development of the accordion reeds in the 20th century.
		When you examine concertina reeds and frames with today's knowledge of reed production, it becomes obvious that the 'concertina' sound is most likely the result of 19th century production methods.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Concertina (477 words)

	Concertina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The concertina is in a family of "free reed" instruments, which includes the accordion, melodion, harmonium and even the harmonica.
		An "Anglo" concertina has a similar shape, but is set up with a different button pattern, with each button producing a different note on the push and pull of of the bellows.
		Concertinas tend to be difficult to find, and can be very expensive due to their complex design.
	www.timmyabell.com /instruments/concertina.htm (228 words)

	Concertina Your source for Edgley Anglo Concertinas and Music
		The standard wood that the "body" of the concertina is made from is cherry.
		You may notice that the "Edgley Concertina" has the end bolts at the corners of the instrument rather than at the centres of the "flats".
		This is because the pressure of the end bolts at the centre of the flat sections does not support the corners and leaks sometimes occur at the corners.
	www.concertinas.ca (1291 words)

	Concertina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He founded the firm of Wheatstone & Co to manufacture concertinas, each one expensively hand-made by highly skilled craftsmen, and at first the concertina was very much an instrument of the middle and upper class drawing room.
		Performers looking for a different sound from the ubiquitous guitar were drawn to the concertina for all its old virtues of versatility and flexibility combined with portability.
		In addition the concertina permitted song accompaniments that were free of the rhythmic straitjacket that the guitar in unskilled hands tends to impose upon everything.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/8341/concerti.htm (373 words)

	Suttner Concertinas - Home
		The sound of a concertina is determined ultimately by the workmanship and the materials used.
		I design and build my concertinas according to the historical models of Wheatstone and Jeffries, although my instruments are unmistakable in appearance as the characteristically decorative feature of each instrument are the endplates.
		Basically there are two different types of concertina: the "Anglo-German Concertina" produces two different notes with one button, depending on whether the instrument is squeezed or pulled (similar to a harmonica).
	www.suttnerconcertinas.com (544 words)

	Chemnitzer Concertina
		Concertina clubs and bands were organized byt the distributors and manufacturers as a marketing technique.
		The first recording of either the concertina or accordion by a Polish artist is hard to trace as Columbia records did not begin a separate numbering system for their ethnic recordings series until 1908.
		The concertina was introduced to the Buffalo, New York area by the late Matthew Pajakowski.
	www.polamjournal.com /polka/chemnitz.html (2975 words)

	The Classical Free-Reed, Inc, The Classical Concertina
		The concertina was, from the earliest years, considered a concert instrument, while the accordion was considered a folk instrument.
		Other nineteenth-century composers of concertina music were Sir George Alexander Macfarren, J. Barnett, Julius Benedict and Edward Silas, who wrote an adagio for eight concertinas, trios, a quartet and a quintet for combination of concertina, strings and pianoforte, and many other works for concertina and pianoforte, including two sonatas.
		After several decades of "the golden age" of the concertina, the tastes of society began to change and the instrument gradually became unfashionable to classical audiences, in no small part due to the scorn inflicted upon it by influential critics such as Henry Chorley and Hector Berlioz.
	www.ksanti.net /free-reed/history/concertina.html (844 words)

	The Maccann Duet Concertina: A Personal Guide and Reference Library
		Maccann Duet concertinas combine many of the advantages from both of two earlier types (called “English concertinas” and “Anglo concertinas”) and can be played in the style of either of those as well as in many additional musical styles, either by ear or from music notation.
		Concertinas are small and light (but loud) bellows-powered free-reed acoustic musical instruments invented by the English physicist Sir Charles Wheatstone about 1830 as a high-tech innovation in musical-instrument design.
		Concertinas are related to many other hand-held bellows-driven free-reed instruments around the world, all referred to as “squeezeboxes”.
	www.maccann-duet.com (2124 words)

	Geuns Concertina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This concertina is the result of a joint venture between the Dutch free reed instrument maker Harry Geuns and the Concertina Connection.
		The sound difference between accordion and traditional concertina reeds is the result of the number and amplitude of the harmonics.
		The Geuns-Wakker concertina is warranted against defects in materials or workmanship for a period of five years.
	www.concertinaconnection.com /geuns_concertina.htm (813 words)

	Concertina Library: Digital Reference Collection for Concertinas
		This much-anticipated study is the first book-length account of the history and development of the concertina, in the context of the people who played it and their music.
		The Maccann duet concertina (1884), first successful expansion of the English design with the aim to make it easier to play a melody with its accompaniment or multiple parts simultaneously; associated with professional performers in music hall and variety theatre.
		Current research into concertinas and concertina history, articles by leading scholars, classic papers, work in progress, a bibliography of all known concertina tutors, and much more.
	www.concertina.com (1795 words)

	Jax RCFB Hayden Duet Concertina Page
		Concertina buttons are pressed inwards towards the bellows, as are the buttons on the left-hand side of a modern accordion.
		The traditional concertina has the reeds laid radially in the reed pan, rather than mounted on a reed block like an accordion.
		Some modern concertinas have a reed plate on which the reeds are mounted orthogonally and flat, unlike the radial or reed block constructions.
	www.well.com /~jax/rcfb/hayden_duet.html (1986 words)

	concertina on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CONCERTINA [concertina], musical instrument whose tone is produced by free reeds.
		It is a chromatic instrument similar to the accordion, but its bellows are attached to hexagonal blocks having handles and buttons (finger pistons), and it is smaller.
		Egyptian soldiers fix concertina wire on top of a wall in an effort to keep people from crossing the border to and from Egypt 15 September 2005.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/concerti.asp (836 words)

	The Wheatstone English Concertina
		Wheatstone was granted two musical patents during this period of active involvement with the concertina: that of 1836, in collaboration with the seraphine-maker John Green, claims a wide range of 'new and improved' free reed instruments including the wind piano and the Table-top concertina (15).
		From about 1845, the reed pans of allWheatstone concertinas had a circular paper pan-label affixedto their inner face which has all of the note names and 'noteframe' or reed bed sizes printed upon it to guide the outworkersas to which size of bed was to be used for each note.
		For their 'clarionet' concertinas, whose tone was intended toresemble that of the clarinet or oboe, Wheatstone's used steelreed tongues of a markedly fish-tail shape, which when combinedwith harmonically tuned reed chambers, did indeed have a markedeffect in the tone of these instruments.
	www.hobgoblin-usa.com /info/wayne.htm (11266 words)

	CONCERTINA.net - Buyer's Guide
		There are a number of good pages dealing with concertinas, but the concertina FAQ is probably the best place to start.
		UK concertina dealer Chris Algar of Barleycorn concertinas also mentioned to me that Dickinson anglos are extremely fine instruments, with a very consistent and high-quality (fast) action, great sound, and top-notch construction.
		When I decided to buy a really good concertina, I contacted a cousin in Ireland whose daugher is an all-Ireland champion for her age group.
	www.concertina.net /guide.html (6006 words)

	Concertina FAQ: Repair Techniques
		Bastari/Stagi type concertinas that are derived from accordions require different techniques that are described in the Accordion FAQ (see section 12, Internet).
		Remove the screws one at a time from opposite sides of the endplate so as to distribute the strain, and replace them the same way when you are reassembling the instrument (do not overtighten as you may cause the ends or reed pans to warp).
		Reeds on the inside play when the concertina is being pushed or closed, and reeds on the outside play when the concertina is being pulled or opened.
	www.concertina.info /tina.faq/conc-rep.htm (1228 words)

	CONCERTINA.net - The Hayden duet system concertina - Resource List
		The concertina keyboard system known today as the "Hayden" system, which was independently discovered by Brian Hayden and patented by him in 1986, had also been discovered and patented 90 years earlier by a Swiss inventor named Kaspar Wicki, only twelve years after Maccann's patent.
		When the concertina rests in its natural position on a tabletop, therefore, it is resting on the heads of two of these pegs (one at each end of the bellows), which can't be good for either the tabletop or the pegs.
		The sound is tinnier than you'd expect with real concertina reeds on a flat reed pan and has less dynamic range, but it is not without a certain charm.
	www.concertina.net /kc_hayden.html (2554 words)

	Amazon.com: Concertina: Music: Tori Amos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Just as the second disc of Amos's "to venus and back" album is a live collection of mostly band songs, this single offers a further look into Amos's live solo performances, played during "secretime" of her 1998 concert tour.
		The Concertina single from the album to Venus and Back is not disappointing in the least.
		Concertina is one of Tori's more melodic songs, and it quietly works its way into your mind and remains there replaying itself over and over for hours.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004L8H2?v=glance (1691 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Absolute Beginners Concertina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This book starts at rock bottom by answering the question, "What is an Anglo concertina?" Mick describes the differences found from one Anglo to another, teaches you to play the common scales, and starts with simple tunes before attempting slightly more advanced ones.
		This book is written for the C/G Anglo concertina, which is the most common.
		Concertina and How to Play It By Paul de Ville...
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?item=4065013&id=79590 (92 words)

	Concertina Playing
		I progressed with the German Anglo concertina, and some of the members of the Broadwood Morris Men formed a country dance band and asked me to play along.
		By this time I had purchased a rare duet concertina and exchanged it for a Jones Anglo and part exchanged that for a Jeffries 38 button CG.
		I was by then tuning and repairing concertinas as a hobby / extra cash and bought a GD and BpF Jeffries.
	www.filmsonglass.co.uk /concertina-index.htm (375 words)

	Wheatstone Concertina Ledgers, Horniman Museum, Home Page
		Wheatstone and Co. Concertina Ledgers at the Horniman Museum, London
		Introduction: A project to digitize the ledgers of the C. Wheatstone and Co. concertina factory at the Horniman Museum, London
		The nineteenth-century ledgers were formerly part of the Concertina Museum collection assembled by Neil Wayne, which was purchased for the Horniman Museum with the generous support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and the MGC/Science Museum PRISM Fund.
	www.horniman.info (329 words)

	DoN Nichols' Home page
		If you don't have an interest in the internals of concertinas (and other bellows-driven free reed instruments), you probably won't find anything of interest at this site, but you may find some other things of interest by following the other links to other sites.
		Here is a new section on how to repair certain problems with old concertinas.
		If you want to find the actual note assignments of the buttons, with some additional discussion of the benefits that these assignments offer to one trying to learn to play the instrument.
	www.d-and-d.com /dnichols/DoN.html (899 words)

	CONCERTINA.net - Home
		Concertina Library, built up using information from Jeffries descendants over the last couple of years by half a dozen well-known members of Concertina.net.
		A draft English concertina buyer's guide, long in the works, is now posted, along with a collection of remarks by folks who play both English and anglo concertina.
		We know that the concertina fraternity is a close-knit group, and we would be grateful if you could pass the word to all players to keep an eye out for these instruments.
	www.concertina.net (5434 words)

	Barleycorn Concertinas
		It has been our policy not to advertise concertinas because we have usually worked on recommendations - having a reputation among players was our greatest ambition.
		You can trade in the concertina which you buy from us at the same price as you paid when you upgrade that instrument in due course (always assuming that it is in the same condition as when it was sold and taking into account import duty on concertinas coming in from abroad).
		It is a truly marvellous concertina album and a must for the collection of all Irish music and concertina lovers.
	www.concertina.co.uk (506 words)

	Jax RCFB Free Reed Musical Instruments Page
		The primary focus is on the hand-held bellows-driven free reed instruments: accordion and concertina.
		The Maccann Duet Concertina documents one of the classic fingering systems of Duet concertina and is a fabulous resource for detailed research in concertina history.
		Virtual English Concertina which is a Flash plugin to let you play a "concertina" online which produces sound patches from a genuine concertina.
	www.well.com /~jax/rcfb/freereed.html (2829 words)

	Tour of a Concertina
		However, I hope that it is of interest to those who have concertinas to keep functional, restore, or evaluate for purchase.
		This concertina is one of my own collection, and is an example of the ebony-ended concertinas made by Wheatstone prior to the Boosey and Hawkes buyout.
		Details of the reedpan of an English Concertina.
	www.d-and-d.com /tinas/tour.html (758 words)

	Concertina
		The Concertina Net This site has several discussion threads on history, repair, buy/sell music, and many other aspects of concertina playing.
		Frank Edgley is a wonderful concertina player, an excellent maker of concertinas and a great teacher.
		The Northeast Squeeze-In is an annual gathering of free reed players (and assorted other musicians) who join together for a great weekend in the Berkshires in mid-September of each year.
	oz.plymouth.edu /~wjt/concertina.html (555 words)

	Concertina Spotters Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The English Concertina evolved and changed from its invention in the early 19th century.
		You play with three fingers on each hand (the thumb and pinky are holding the concertina) and the scale is interleaved between the left and right hands.
		This is an old Wheatstone, very similar in pattern to the earliest concertinas built by Wheatstone, the inventor.
	www.paraglyph.com /concertinas/indentina.html (188 words)

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