Steve Turner's Wheatstone Aeola is a 64 key Bass/Baritone/Tenor Serial no. 32306 dating back to 1929, and the bottom four buttons on the left hand side are 'Anglo tuned' giving 68 notes in total. It is in high pitch (A = 452) and he didn't dare have it retuned in case it spoiled its response...and who can blame him?!

He bought it from someone in Doncaster, but documentation traces it back to the Salvation Army in Newcastle.

Apparently I'm the only other person to play it in public apart from Steve since he bought it...!

He did ask Colin Dipper to make him a copy, but that was twenty years ago and he's still waiting! I told him about Dick Miles' unfortunate fire which damaged his number one concertina, and this has now got him worried... as any concertina player knows, no two are exactly alike, which makes replacing a missing or damaged one well nigh impossible.