English Concertina in Ensemble (2)

[Dick Glasgow]

1 ~ [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Vibq0dLNM
]Irish Jigs in Alaska Wilderness[/url]

2 ~ Spectrum - Out Of Town - Squeezebox: Concertinas

[Dick Glasgow]

I've just added a short but interesting clip from the East Anglian Film Archive to our list here.

Anyone who plays a Wheatstone Concertina is sure to enjoy this.

It's an old BBC report about the concertina & it opens with a singer and concertina quartet performing Mexborough Memories - a ballad about the Mexborough English Prize Concertina Band from Yorkshire.

The film then moves to the Suffolk workshop of Steve Dickinson, who makes concertinas under the Wheatstone & Co. brand.

Construction methods including hand-sawn patterning and reed placement are shown, before Dickinson explains the operation of this unique instrument and its use to perform brass band and parlour music. The segment concludes with a parlour performance by Dickinson's own concertina quartet.

Cheers,
Dick