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Posted 15 November 2001
Additional Photographs for A Wheatstone
Twelve-Sided ‘Edeophone’ Concertina
Neil Wayne
Margaret Birley
Robert Gaskins
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© Copyright 2000– by Neil Wayne, Margaret Birley, and Robert Gaskins
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Twelve-Sided serial #35074with 1861-patent fingering, Wheatstone, 1938
Contents
- Additional Photographs of A Wheatstone Twelve-Sided ‘Edeophone’ Concertina
The original version of this article appeared in
The Free-Reed Journal, Vol. 3 (2001), pp. 3-17
© 2001 Neil Wayne, Margaret Birley, and Robert Gaskins.
Links to related documents
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Wheatstone Concertina Ledgers
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Directory
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Historical business records of C. Wheatstone & Co. from
the Horniman Museum in London. Earlier ledgers from the Wayne Archives
contain company sales records from the late 1830s to the 1860s
along with production records from the 1860s to the 1890s and some
early records of wages and other payments. Later ledgers from the Dickinson Archives
contain production records from 1910 to 1974. All surviving ledgers
have been digitized (some 2,300 pages in total) and made available free on the web for
private research.
The same material is also available to buy on an inexpensive CD.
Includes an introduction to the project by Margaret Birley, Keeper of Musical Instruments at
the Horniman Museum, and an article by Robert Gaskins describing in detail how the ledgers
were digitized.
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Posted 15 June 2003; Updated 15 June 2005
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Historic Concertina Patents
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Directory
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A portfolio of full copies of
nine historic concertina patents. Includes the
early Wheatstone English patents, Maccann's Duet patent, Jones's Anglo patent,
the Crane Duet patent, Kaspar Wicki's patent for the Wicki-Hayden system, and Brian
Hayden's much later patent for the same system. Includes:
C. Wheatstone 1829; C. Wheatstone 1844; Wm. Wheatstone 1861; Maccann 1884;
Jones 1885; Alsepti and Ballinger 1885; Butterfield 1896; Wicki 1896; Hayden 1986.
None of these patents has any current force, all have either lapsed or been abandoned.
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Posted 15 December 2004
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The 'Duet' System, discussed by K. V. Chidley
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by Kenneth V. Chidley
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Review of the history of the duet concertina leading up to
Chidley's own post-war "Chidley System".
As published in World Accordion Review
6:3 (December 1950): 31-32. Also a differing version
as reprinted with notes by Neil Wayne
as K. V. Chidley, "The Duet Concertina--Its History and the Evolution
of its Keyboard," Free Reed: The Concertina Newsletter 17
(Jan/Feb 1974): 15-17.
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Posted 15 November 2001
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The Tommy Williams Story
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by Neil Wayne
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Interview with Tommy Williams, Maccann Duet concertinist and former
Lachenal employee.
Published in three parts in Free Reed: The Concertina Newsletter,
3 (January 1972): 5–6;
5 (May 1972): 6–7;
and 7 (August 1972): 10–12.
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Posted 15 November 2001; last updated 15 January 2004
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The Wheatstone English Concertina
- by Neil Wayne
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Survey article covering the Wheatstone English Concertina, the only
published source for much of Neil Wayne's path-breaking research.
As published in The Galpin Society Journal 44 (1991), 117-149. (The
online version does not yet perfectly match the printed version.)
- Posted 01 January 2005
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The House of Wheatstone 1750-1950
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by Henry Minting
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Brief overview of Wheatstone & Co. business history by its last manager,
perhaps a draft with a view to use in a catalogue or similar publication.
Unpublished manuscript (2 pp.), Horniman Museum Library,
Wayne Archives, item no. C1065.
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Posted 15 November 2001
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Dates of Concertinas
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by Henry Minting
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One sheet of blurred manual typing with dim hand-written additions, and another sheet
(in two copies) possibly re-typed later from the first on an electric typewriter,
with "Dates of Concertinas" relating Wheatstone serial numbers to dates of
manufacture. These were discussed and an attempt made to arrive at a reliable
partial transcription, in Robert Gaskins,
Wheatstone Anglos with Serial Numbers 50,000+,
2001.
Unpublished manuscripts, Horniman Museum Library.
Neither sheet has yet been catalogued at the Horniman, but these
appear to constitute item number C1045 in Neil Wayne's finding list to
his archives, which is described as "C1045. A copy of a complete
dating list for Wheatstone Concertinas, compiled by Henry Minting.
All numbers from 1 - 58485 are covered, with approximate dates of
manufacture." ("The Concertina Museum, Archives", page 40.)
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Posted 01 February 2005
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Fingering Systems for Duet Concertina
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by Brian Hayden
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Overview of all the fingering systems for duet concertina which
turned up in Hayden's review of prior art while preparing his own patent application.
As published in Concertina Magazine (Australia)
16 (1986): 19-23; 17 (1987): 7-9; 18 (1987): 11-15; 19 (1987): 6-10.
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Posted 15 November 2001
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Horniman Museum
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the Horniman Museum
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The Horniman Museum in London is home to the largest collection of concertinas
(more than 600 instruments) and much related archival research material. A
photographic directory
of concertinas in the collection is available on the site.
The Wheatstone Concertina
Ledgers at the Museum have been digitized and are online
at a separate website.
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Posted 15 April 2003
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