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Concertina.
Technical description: English Concertina. Hexagonal wooden ends with thumb and little finger rests. Fully chromatic compass with a range of three octaves and a tone, C₄ to D₆. 32 buttons, 16 to each hand, all the flats being on one hand and the sharps on the other. Over the two octaves covered by the buttons, the left hand has the low G♯ and the high D♯ and A♭. The right hand has the low D♯ and A♭ and high G♯.
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Circa 1849 - Maker:
Wheatstone, Charles [Person] - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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London/England - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:412.132 Sets of free reeds
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:412.132 Sets of free reeds
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:length: 115 (closed); width: 176.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17406