After several months of stopping in every music and pawn shop I passed and gettting offered a lot of mother of toilet seat anglo concertinas, I stopped into a shop in the Bronx and the clerk brought out a Wheatstone E2. I tried it and it worked. When I asked how much they wanted, I was told $250. I laid down a deposit and said I would be back in a few days with the rest. When I got back, the shop owner offered me $250 to forget the deal as he said the price marked was a mistake. I bought that instrument and, having tried and owned a few others over the years, this is the only one I have stuck with. Put in terms of cost per year, this instrument has given me a lot of inexpensive pleasure.