Item Type: Concertina
Action BoardAction Board Summary: Curved top brass sheet pivots, with tall rectangular slot receiving the bent brass levers within pivot, each pinned into "house-shaped" raised plinth of action board. Action Board Pivot: Flat-plate pivots with side opening. Action Board Levers: Steel wire levers, flattened at pivot area. Action Board Springs: Brass. Action Board Pallets: The pallets are of circular pale cardboard. Action Board Air Valve: The Air key acts upon a brass wire poking through the frets, that passes through the action board and acts upon a spring-loaded air valve flap on the inner face of the RH reed pan. Action Board Securing-screw pattern: One screw from lower area of action board entering via a cylindrical wood support, via the frets to the centre of the hand bar. |
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Created August 2009 by Neil Wayne
Last Modified 07 February 2012 by Neil Wayne, Chris Flint, Wes Williams
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