Item Type: Tutor - English ConcertinaSummaryFull Description: ‘English’ Concertina Tutor: Four copies of
“Warren’s Instructions for the Concertina”, all publ
by C Wheatstone & Co, and marked as the 9th Edition, CW
No 1700. The fourth hard-bound volume includes “Late of 20 Conduit
Street, W.” in the address. Warren (1804-1881) was an
organist, music historian and collector of original manuscripts of the great
composers, and composer-arranger of a large collection of classical music for
both the English and Anglo concertina. He also arranged opera
excerpts for Charles Wheatstone’s mouth-blown symphonium,
from which the English concertina is a direct offspring. See Warren’s
two-page Symphonium arrangement within Item
. Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 5.4.1-020 |
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