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The Concertina
Sir Charles Wheatstone
Wheatstone was a physicist and inventor of wide ranging interests, from the telegraph to data encryption and stereo imagry, as well as his unique musical instruments. Read this history written by Peter Wheatstone.
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Listen!
- Brian Peters presents some traditional tunes from the North and Midlands of England, on melodeon and concertina.
- Lea Nicholson's The Concertina Record was a groundbreaking, ear-opening experience that was recently reissued
- The editor first heard the concertina from the music of Peter Bellamy
- Welsh artist John Morgan takes a very stately approach to the instrument.
- The godfather of English concertina, Scan Tester
- In South Africa it's called squashbox
- Listen to some marvelous old recordings on 78 RPM platters of the concertina, made available on the web by Hakan Wilders' @ccordionscandinavia! web site.
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More about the concertina
- Neil Wayne's article about the 12-sided Wheatstone Concertina
- A pretty complete story of the concertina, again by Neil Wayne (master of the instrument's history and proprietor of Free Reed Records, includes pictures of some of the odd-ball variations of the instrument Wheatstone concocted, including a foot powered bellows and a mouth blown one (a button khaen?).
- Steve Litwin's article on The Chemnitzer, the polka's concertina.
- Search for more about the concertina at Rootster, the search for culture
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