Item Type: Tutor - Wheatstone'sSummaryFull Description: A rare hard-bound first edition of “Instructions for the double
concertina by Joseph Warren”, published in “London,
Messrs Wheatstone & Co, 20 Conduit Strt. Regent Strt., Price
7/6”. The ‘Double’ concertina was
introduced by Wheatstone’s Conduit Street
manufactory from about 1845. A good summary of its history appears together
with details of Robert Gaskins’ Double No 23
appears here
[http://www.concertina.com/double/wheatstone-double-no-23/index.htm] The
Collection has an early 66-key double concertina as
Item C.100
, [http://www.concertinamuseum.com/CM00100.htm] which was acquired together
with the ‘Double’ Tutor described here. The Tutor may be
incomplete, since it contains but the first 6 pages and page 25, bound
together with several pages of manuscript religious music, and blank pages
with prints of instruments applied to them. A complete edition may be studied
here
. [http://www.concertina.com/double/index.htm#warren-double-wheatstone-tutor].
The tutor is signed by its Owner “Jno Streeter July 18th
1853”. A facsimile copy of C Wheatstone’s two-page introductory
document about his new invention is Item
NC.5.4.6-002
[http://www.concertinamuseum.com/NC50406-002.htm] in the Collection. Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 5.4.6-001 |
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