Item Type: An 8-plus-2-Key Flutina or Accordéon Diatonique

Summary

Full Description: An 8-plus-2-Key "Flutina" or "Accordéon Diatonique".
An early model, with a pair of rise-and-fall brass sliders operating pearl pallets leading to drone chordal reed-plates within. One pearl pallet is missing. The large brass left-hand air valve pallet is within a raised scalloped wooden rim.
The instrument measures 94 x 238mm, has 4-fold bellows with flock-embossed patterned papers. The instrument was sold from the Vichy (France) Auction of historic Flutinas as Lot 201, 11th December 2010.
The instrument measures 94 x 238mm, has 4-fold bellows with raised flock tracery patterened papers.

Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: C15.3.2-003