I help out with a charity who raise funds for the provision of a full time music therapist in North Cornwall, England. We have an instrument loan scheme and occasionally get given instruments. We have been given a galotta anglo C/G concertina in a beautiful box. I suspect the box may be worth more than the instrument! The bellows are leaking, it sounds more like a piano accordion and the buttons are not easy to reach, you need mens hands! Can those in the know give me any info I can pass on to the people in charge about its worth, whether it is worth having the bellows dealt with etc.... I run children's workshops but it is so slow to respond and so hard to reach the buttons it would be of little use to the children I work with. If anyone in the North Cornwall area would like to try learing the concertina they are welcome to have this one on loan all they have to do is sign a form to say they have got it.
Cheers, Lucy