Amazing English Concertina for sale

Subject: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: GUEST,English Jon
Date: 14 Sep 06 - 12:12 PM

OK - here goes.

Wheatstone 64 key Aeola, Ebony ends, 1923. (peak period)
Tenor - extended treble. Top playing condition, recently restored by Andrew Norman.
Quite possibly the best English you'll ever play.

I've been playing it professionally and she's very sweet, fast etc. A truly premier grade box.

I need to release some equity though, so she's got to go.

Insured for £3500 (at A. Norman's suggestion)
Am open to sensible offers - might even be persuaded to p/ex your old English or Duet system.

01302 321087 or email [e-mail]

'Tina is in S Yorks - You're welcome to come and have a play, take the ends off, have tea/biscuits etc.

Cheers,
Jon

Subject: RE: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: English Jon
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:53 PM

Refresh

>am I doing the right thing here...? Maybe I'd be better off selling a kidney...<

Cheers,
EJ

Subject: RE: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 03:59 PM

Don't do it! You've got two kidneys, but how many opportunities will you have in the future to get your hands on an instrument like this??

Subject: RE: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: r.padgett
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 04:05 PM

Needs must Jon!

Someone may well make an offer yet
Ray

Subject: RE: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 04:52 PM

It's Friday...lots of folks don't read this after 4PM Friday

Subject: RE: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: Little Robyn
Date: 15 Sep 06 - 04:57 PM

I would love to take up your offer but
1. I'm in New Zealand
2. I'm broke
Maybe if I win the LOTTO????
Robyn

Subject: RE: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: jonm
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 02:48 AM

Yes, I'm buying lottery tickets too! Maybe tonight....

Subject: RE: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: English Jon
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 06:32 AM

Yeah - It'll be a wrench, but honestly, I'm not a good enough player for an instrument like this. It should go to someone who can devote the time to playing her properly!

Cheers,
Jon
(good luck with the lottery everyone!)

Subject: RE: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 06:51 AM

English concertinas have a beautiful timbre, and they should be re-mass produced by a nationalised English Concertina Manufacturing company, thereby bringing the price way down for the folkie masses.

Subject: RE: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: JamesHenry
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 06:55 AM

Are you advocating the "full" English walkabout?

Subject: RE: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: treewind
Date: 16 Sep 06 - 09:13 AM

Good concertinas were never mass produced.
Lachenal introduced some mass-production methods, but I don't think you'll find that applies to their top-of-the-range Edeophone models.

Hope yours finds a good home, Jon. Mary would have been tempted a couple of months ago but then fell in love at first squeeze with a 1914 56-key tenor treble that had just fallen into Steve Dickinson's hands. An overhaul and tuning from Steve and it's one of the best-playing concertinas on the planet. As seen (and heard) at festivals and clubs this Summer!

Anahata

Subject: RE: Amazing English Concertina for sale
From: Fidjit
Date: 17 Sep 06 - 04:19 AM

Have put this on concertina.net for you.

Go to Forums, then Buy/Sell

Chas