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30-button anglos. History, design, and pricing.
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Our first truly successful prototype was a twenty-button Anglo built in a 6-1/2" (165 mm) square shape. It was bulky, but it was loud. We knew we were on the right path. Now we had to design an instrument more in keeping with a traditional look and with thirty buttons. We copied the fundamental design of the Jeffries reed pan. This proved to be a good choice and worked well for what we were trying to accomplish. The next few years were spent working on a hexagonal prototype and refining the mechanical part of the design.
We were determined to produce a valve mechanism that was tough, reliable, and based on compression springs rather than torsion springs. In this area, we have been very successful. We believe it may be the equal of any mechanism ever produced. We expect it to last the life of the instrument but, in the event of damage or failure, it is easily repaired.
By the winter of 1996, we finally had an attractive hexagonal prototype. Living in Texas where fiddle and guitar rule, there is little interest in concertinas. And, with the demise of "Concertina and Squeezebox " magazine, we had no effective way of introducing our concertina to the world. So in the summer of 1997, we decided to take our concertina to the "Willie Clancy Week" in Milltown-Malbay, County Clare, Ireland.
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| Date Added: Fri Jan 06 2006 |
| Last Updated: Fri Jan 06 2006 |
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