G'day,

Q,

After skipping past a few not-quite-errors, regarding the Anglo(-German) style of concertina (always wrist straps ... extremely rarely do the finger straps and 'pinky' stalls of the English system get grafted onto any but the largest and most complicated "Anglo")- I quickly decided Service is merely unconvincingly holding a cheap English-system concertina ... probably a Wheatstone or Lachenal "beginner grade" model ... and possibly a "prop" in the photographer's studio!

Service also wrote a poem about the 'humble' mouthorgan ... so he may well have been experienced in the "Richter tuning scheme" shared by the (vamper style) mouthorgan, the central 2 rows of the Anglo (and cheap German)concertina and the basic 1- or 2-row button accordion.

Typically, in Australia ... and, I'm sure, elsewhere ... kids learned on a cheap mouth organ and, if parents were willing to let them play Mum or Dad's button accordion - or 'Anglo' concertina - could quickly transfer the tunes they learned on the mouth organ to the bellows instruments.

Brian Peters:

Damn - When did that Anglophilia CD come out ... I can't see it in the "Brian Peters" area on my CD shelving! (Or is it your track on Alan Day's collection forthcoming collecion ... ?)

Charley Noble: Be reminded "... post sometime C. Fox Smith's nautical poem "Casey's Concertina" as adapted for singing by Bob Zentz.
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Regards,

Bob