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30 Jan 16 - 10:58 AM (#3769360) Subject: Unusual concertina in C19 painting From: MGM·Lion The 1856 painting "The Blind Girl", by John Everett Millais https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Girl shows an unusually shaped square-ended concertina. Presumably the models were painted from life in the studio with background landscape later integrated, or perhaps vice versa; and the instrument held by the model would have been an actual one used as one of the props for the work. It looks like a 30-key anglo-system instrument. Has anyone come across one of this shape before; or have any idea of its make, provenance, &c? ≈M≈ |
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30 Jan 16 - 11:07 AM (#3769366) Subject: RE: Unusual concertina in C19 painting From: GUEST,Peter Laban A search on the concertina.net forums will answer your question. This has been discussed there more than a few times. |
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30 Jan 16 - 11:09 AM (#3769367) Subject: RE: Unusual concertina in C19 painting From: MGM·Lion Ah -- Thank you Peter. Shall search there. |
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30 Jan 16 - 11:11 AM (#3769368) Subject: RE: Unusual concertina in C19 painting From: GUEST,Peter Laban Blind Girl- one thread on concertina.net There you go. |
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30 Jan 16 - 11:18 AM (#3769369) Subject: RE: Unusual concertina in C19 painting From: MGM·Lion Many thanks. Had actually located it independently also. And found inter alia, for those interested "It is of a distinctive model, with rectangular buttons, suggesting that it was made by the mid-19th century Chemnitz maker Carl Friedrich Pirner". Wowie. Something that has exercised me for years. So I get around to put up a query here. Answered in full in less than ¼-hr. Mudcat strikes again! Profound thanks again, Peter ≈Michael≈ |