Top English Concertina Sites

On Saturday 16th April, the International Concertina Association will hold their AGM in Newcastle. In the morning there will be a workshop led by concertina maestro Alistair Anderson at the Ouseburn Farm. In the evening Alistair will give a concert at St. Silas Church in Byker, featuring the award winning dance team Star and Shadow Rapper, and me! It looks set to be a great day. Hello! Welcome...

Here’s a tune I wrote about ten years ago when I lived on a narrowboat on the Kennet and Avon Canal. One of my favourite places was close to the Dundas Basin, where there was a great place to moor up looking over the valley towards Brassknocker Hill. I remember Verity Sharp coming to record me playing this tune there for a fantastic programme she made called England In Ribbons. I hadn’t played...

You can usually find me playing concertina every Thursday night at McGinley's Pub in Anchorage, where there's a great Irish session. I do play other styles of music on concertina: old-time fiddle and dance tunes, for example, though I mostly seek Irish tunes when I'm ready to add something new to my repertoire. The anglo is more often used among traditional Irish players, but I enjoy playing my...

Publishes cds en dvds: (Documentary "Playing the concertina" and cds "Concertina Scape and Concertina Scape 2"). Play-along books and sheetmusic such as Duets for Concertina (both English and 30 key Anglo) with play-along cd. Organizes and/or gives workshops, lectures and concerts. Concertina Academy was founded by Pauline de Snoo. Concertina tutor(s) for English Concertina and the Anglo...

Welcome to the Concertina Museum Collection Digital Archive This site offers on-line access to every instrument, image and archive item in the Collection, and enables collectors and researchers to examine in detail the construction, design, labelling of many hundreds of English-made and continental concertinas, of related free reeded instruments, of the inventions of Charles Wheatstone, and...

Credit is due to the contributing authors for the great bulk of everything in the Concertina Library. Click on any contributor's name to see a directory of items contributed. More about all contributing authors This page contains a column over on the far right (the yellow one) listing directories of the major documents available here. These sections don't change very often. Each link leads to a...

The Button Box sells and repairs concertinas and accordions. We make R. Morse anglo, English, and duet concertinas, and we carry concertinas and accordions from makers such as Wheatstone, Lachenal, Saltarelle, Castagnari, Hohner, Weltmeister, and Paolo Soprani. We stock new accordions from Castagnari, Saltarelle, Serenellini, Brandoni, Weltmeister, and Hohner. We cannot predict what used...

Please send an email to tomsplace@smig.net if you have comments, corrections, requests, information, or wish to discuss the topics. This is an ongoing project — Tom made the last update on 10 August 2016. Tom's Place - Carmen Sylva Regina Elisabeta, Queen Marie Regina Maria, Princess Ileana, Romania, English Concertina, Classics Illustrated, Chicago.

The site features an extensive library of free sheet music, self-instruction materials, a collection of nostalgic and historic information, and some technical essentials for the chemnitzer musician. You will also find information on chemnitzer concertina clubs, honorary organizations, people associated with the instrument, a brief history of the chemnitzer, a data base of select manufacturer...

Handcrafted Traditional Musical Instrument iOS and Android Apps. Perfect for students and professional musicians. Watch demo videos and learn more. The apps are perfect for learning and practicing in your apartment, on a work break, when the kids are asleep, or wherever you are. Wherever you have your mobile device, you can play or practice. Play in headphones while waiting for a meeting, or...