Item Type: Tutor - English Concertina

Summary

Full Description: ‘English’ Concertina Tutor: “The English Concertina Player’s Companion, C. Roylance, Professor of the Concertina” originally publ London, 1886. Originally published from Seymour Street, Euston Square. Charles George Roylance(c.1840–?) was a musical instrument dealer, concertina performer-teacher, and author-publisher of tutors for English and Anglo concertina and other instruments. Most banjos and concertinas marketed under his name were actually made by other firms. He sponsored at least one contest—“ Mr. C. Roylance’s English Concertina Contest, Cambridge Hall, Oxford Street (July 5^th 1870), and a large pewter trophy from that very contest is Item NC.4.9-001 in the Collection, and has the engraving “Presented to Mr W J Corton, by the Umpires, for the best-played Concertina solo at Mr. C Roylance’s Concertina Contest at the Cambridge Hall, Newman Street, Oxford Street, July 5^th 1870.”
The major source for information and listings of all known Concertina Tutors is Randall Merris’s paper at www.concertina.com/merris/bibliography/english-tutors.htm

Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 5.4.1-014