The Concertina Museum Collection Ref:C-161.



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Item Type: Concertina

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End Frets

Summary: Flat solid mahogany annular "Circular Frets" with a tiny hole right in the centre of the keys disc, (possibly where the scribing-tool or compass marked out the boundaries of the annular ring of fretwork).

End Shape: Hexagonal

End Sides: Six

End Diameter: 157.5 mm

End-Profile: Flat

End Material: Solid mahogany ends and frames.

End Bolts: Medium cheese-head brass - 3 remain to RH, 6 later steel screws to LH, all rusted and seized into fret- and end-frame wood.

Fret Pattern: "Circular Fret" pattern.

Label Embouchure Pattern: No Cartouches - labels within annular fret space.

Strap Screw-insert type: Inset circular brass disc with one steel securing screw.

Finger-rest: Brass sheet, clad in original dark green leather.

Fret Condition: Fine.





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The Concertina Museum Collection

Created August 2009 by Neil Wayne
Last Modified 07 February 2012 by Neil Wayne, Chris Flint, Wes Williams

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