The Concertina Museum Collection Ref:C-084.



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Item Type: Concertina

Summary Labels and Serial Numbers End Frets Fingering System Straps and Holding Devices Fret Baffle Action Board Reeds and Reed Pans Bellows Case and Other

End Frets

Summary: High quality raised tortoiseshell ends, on dark-wood veneer, fixed over veneered end-frames.

End Shape: Octagonal

End Sides: Eight

End Diameter: 239mm

End-Profile: Octagonal high quality raised tortoiseshell ends, on dark-wood veneer, fixed over veneered end-frame.

End Material: High quality raised tortoiseshell ends, on dark-wood veneer.

End Bolts: Medium pale brass cheese-head bolts.

Label Embouchure Pattern: No embouchure - label and serial number are in the post 1930s-style scalloped black-on-metal "West Street" Wheatstone labels, and are pinned to scalloped areas in the ends' fretwork.

Strap Screw-insert type: No inserts when integrally-clamped hand straps are used.

Finger-rest: Not used on Duet instruments.

Fret Condition: Perfect.

Damage Summary: LH Hand-strap repaired.





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The Concertina Museum Collection

Created August 2009 by Neil Wayne
Last Modified 07 February 2012 by Neil Wayne, Chris Flint, Wes Williams

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