Item Type: Concertina
Action BoardAction Board Summary: In a continuing move away from the earlier complex arrangements of levers and pivots, blued steel springs and bone or brass pallets, this instrument's Action is made up of a slotted pivot column with wound-steel springs, and brass-sheet levers, broader within the pivot area, and the pallets are now circular cardboard, a material used on almost all subsequent instruments. Action Board Pivot: This instrument's Action uses slotted pivot columns Action Board Levers: This instrument's Action includes brass-sheet levers, broader within the pivot area, Action Board Springs: Coiled steel springs. Action Board Pallets: The pallets are circular pale cardboard. Action Board Securing-screw pattern: Trio of wooden cylindrical supports receiving the three screws from strap, finger-rest and top fret area. Action Board Sub-fret-board Supports: 3 Rectangular chamois-clad pillars, in three of the outer corners of the action board tray. |
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Created August 2009 by Neil Wayne
Last Modified 07 February 2012 by Neil Wayne, Chris Flint, Wes Williams
This page created Tuesday 14 February 2012.