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Item Type: Concertina
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Reeds and Reed Pans
Reed Pans Summary: Twelve-sided radial, with large radial and recessed central hole, bearing serial number. The "Registered Design Number" is stamped in ink on the inner face of each reed-pan: It reads "Rd. 128662".
Reed Pans Main Labels: None
Reed Pans Stamps: L & R, plus: The "Registered Design Number" is stamped in ink on the inner face of each reed-pan: It reads "Rd. 128662".
Reed Pans Gasketry: Pale yellow Chamois
Reed Pans Right Hand Cross Pieces: RH: 24 Wooden cross-pieces, (superceding the previous use of cork cross-pieces), each pale yellow chamois-capped, on lower chambers
Reed Pans Left Hand Cross Pieces: LH:24 Wooden cross-pieces, (superceding the previous use of cork cross-pieces), each pale yellow chamois-capped, on lower chambers
Reeds Summary: Round end brass, with steel tongues and steel screws, stamped with note names. The leather valve flaps to many of the bass reeds have an added thin blued-steel strip secured to the outer face of the flap by a small leather disc, to prevent valve-flaps curling up and enhance the seal they make to the pan-chamber.
Reed Frame Material: Brass
Reed Tongue Material: Steel
Reed Frame Shape: Round-ended
Reed Tongue Profile: Parallel
Reed Securing Screws: The Steel tongues are each secured by a pair of very smallsteel cheese-head screws.
Stamps on Reed Frames: Note-Names.
