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Thread #110424   Message #2316602
Posted By: GUEST,The Mole catcher's unplugged Apprentice
15-Apr-08 - 04:39 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
that article seems to be mainly about the accordian, with, I might add, some unverified claims (ie no sources cited). it does however state, which I have seen cited elsewhere, that

The concertina, patented in two forms (perhaps independently): one by Carl Friedrich Uhlig, 1834 and the other by Sir Charles Wheatstone, of which examples were built after 1829, but no patent taken out until 1844.

Charlotte R