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English concertina
English system concertina with hexagonal fretwork case and end plates of rosewood veneer. Three-fold black leather bellows. Four straight rows of nickel-silver buttons on each side (56 keys). Nickel-silver finger rests. Black leather thumb-straps. This instrument belonged to Robert Beer from Somerset, who was a saddler and later a mechanic.
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1850–70 - Maker:
Wheatstone [Corporation] - Collection:
Gloucester Life - Inventory number:
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London (Timezone: Europe/London) - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:412.132-62 Sets of free reeds with flexible air reservoir
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- Inscriptions:Paper label in an oval aperture of fretwork: BY HER MAJESTY'S LETTERS PATENT / C. WHEATSTONE. / (gothic script) Inventor / (cursive) 20. Conduit St. Regent St. / LONDON.
- Hornbostel-Sachs category:412.132-62 Sets of free reeds with flexible air reservoir
- Repository:Gloucester Life
- Measurements:Length (closed): 160mm; Width: 185mm