Share More sharing options Followers 0. Reply to this topic Start new topic. Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2. Recommended Posts. Dowright Posted July 22, Posted July 22, edited. English Model : Edeophone, Inimitiable, Excelsior--if applicable. English: bowing valves --if applicable. Randy Merris Edited July 22, by Dowright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Posted July 22, Leonard Posted July 22, Randy, Since Chris Algar is in the project team does that mean that Lachenals bought from or sold to Chris in recent years are already in the database?
Edited July 22, by Leonard. Posted July 24, In summary -- it's a very pretty little box and I'd like to know more about its history. TomB-R Posted July 25, Posted July 25, Assuming data from the "humble" end of the spectrum is of any use.
Theo Posted July 25, Anglo Lachenal label as above label Harry Boy er? Sheila Posted November 19, Posted November 19, Randy Merris. Dowright Posted November 29, Posted November 29, I was expecting the Lachenal to be later. I am also working on an old button that was tuned by T.
Brock of Toronto, concertina teacher and repairer, in April It's had a much harder life that the other. Surprising it needed tuning so soon after manufacture, unless he was changing the pitch of course. Lachenal Edeophone, Maccann Duet, 61 keys, metal ends set in wooden frame with ebony veneers. Many thanks for the dating of this Anglo. You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
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Popular Posts Dowright November 22, Dowright June 11, Dowright June 3, Posted Images. Dowright Posted December 14, Saltwater, I date your No. JimLucas Posted December 25, So perhaps No. The date they closed down is problematic. It all went for as little as a hundred quid, including the gas oil that drove the machinery. The site of the old Lachenal premises at nos. Just beyond it is the three-storey Georgian building at number 8 which was Louis Lachenal's original address in the street.
Housed for a number of years at the former Concertina Museum, Belper, Derbyshire, they are now part of the Wayne Archive at the Horniman Museum, London, where they are in the process of being digitised by Robert Gaskins; when that work is completed, they will be made available for research both on the web and on a CD-ROM which will be available from the Museum.
Note added June all of the red books are now on the web at that location. The Red Books, with the numbers given to them by Neil Wayne and retained by the Horniman Museum , consist of the following:.
Bennett Zon Aldershot: Ashgate, , 65 and n. Brown and Stephen S. It was named after the non-denominational school founded there by the British and Foreign School Society in It was in British Grove that Frederick Walton invented linoleum in Whichels, but with no owner listed. A photograph reveals that Digby House was a five-bay, three-storey over basement Georgian mansion, whilst an Ordnance Survey map shows that it had an extensive garden behind it, with a rear carriageway and outbuildings my thanks to Ms.
Wheeldon for sending these, and diligently answering other questions from me. I have walked from British Grove to Lower Mall in a little over fifteen minutes. Well my grandfather was, until the patent ran out, with Wheatstone, and Lachenal had made all the tools for the plant, and he started on his own.
John Crabb c. Interestingly, his name seems to have been added as a late entry, in different ink, the house having earlier been marked as unoccupied. He seems to have first moved to the area between the christening of his second daughter, Emma Louisa Crabb, at St. Their fourth child, Henry Thomas Crabb d.
Peter, in Hammersmith now St. Finding this advertisement was the first clue that there had been a factory in existence at Chiswick. Wheatstone in , and when he died in was succeeded by his son, also Edward Chidley, who died in I entered the business in and have managed production since —and am still in harness! The firm had borne his name alone in directory entries since , although the concertinas continued to be labelled C. Certainly, Chidley was living at 29, Conduit Street, close to the Wheatstone shop, by April , as he was enumerated there for the Census.
In all, I would suggest that is perhaps a more likely date for his acquisition of C. Moreover, other models of treble, as well as all the tenors, baritones, and basses, were still being made by hand though using reeds supplied by Lachenal, except for the basses, which used French harmonium reeds.
In addition, though there are potentially more than 9, Red Book entries during this period allowing for a missing volume, between April and January , not all of them would have been for sales of new concertinas, as numerous entries in the surviving ledgers are for instruments that were lent, hired, or sold second hand, sometimes several times.
All further references to CMC numbers are to instruments from that catalogue. I would be interested to hear from you. The constant output assumption is obviously rather dicey.
I have written dozens of letters with precious little information coming to light. My idea was that concertinas were sometimes sold with a retailer's stamp and a date inside them. All of us who own concertinas get to see the insides of our instruments more than we would sometimes like, so if yours has any such markings, please let me know.
If your instrument has a repairer's label and date inside, please tell me These combinations are: Serial Number. Home Forums Privacy Follow this link to Amazon. All rights reserved.
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