12 The Internet (Concertina)
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This article is from the Concertina FAQ, by Chris Timson chris@harbour.demon.co.uk with numerous contributions by others.
12 The Internet (Concertina)
This list is not exhaustive and I would welcome further information.
The International Concertina Association has an active mailing list, but
this is restricted to its members only.
has an Internet mailing list
Anglo Concertina Excellent page produced by Dave Glenn.
Good info (and one or two inaccuracies)
and diagrams and some very useful hints
on how to finger various keys on the anglo.
http://www.soltec.net/~daglenn/conc_90.html
Boermusiek Konsertina Some very interesting pages about the
concertina as played by the Boer community of
South Africa, maintained by Sean Minnie. Well
worth a read.
http://mzone.mweb.co.za/residents/sminnie/
Chemnitzer FAQ Created by Ted Kloba, this site is a good
starting point for people interested in
the Chemnitzer concertina.
http://www.geocities.com/heytud/faq.html
Concertina.net New name (formerly Anglo Concertina Resources)
and new address for a fine site. Good photos,
info, links and interviews with Herrington and
Suttner, and a message board. What more could
you want?
http://www.concertina.net/
Chords This page is given over to an
explanation of chord symbols. The
author, Gavin Atkin, is a Jeffries
duet player, and has devised the
page for other duet players.
http://home.clara.net/gmatkin/chords.htm
Concertina Descriptions of three anglo concertinas owned by
Bob DeVellis - A Jeffries, a Lachenal and a
Dipper. Beautifully photograped and written, I
like to look in on this since this particular
Lachenal was the first concertina I ever owned.
http://members.directvinternet.com/devellis/ip1conc.htm
Concertina History An article written by Neil Wayne for the Galpin
Society and profusely illustrated. A *must* for
the budding concertina guru. Maintained by the
UK Anglo player Howard Mitchell.
http://www.hgmitchell.fsnet.co.uk/g0.htm
Concertina! Maintained by Toby Koosman, contains
links to many sites of direct and
peripheral interest to concertina
players.
http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~tkoosman/boxlinks.html
Concertina FAQ This FAQ in HTML format with
pictures.
http://www.concertina.info/
Bob Tedrow maintains a US mirror
at http://hmi.homewood.net/tinafaq/
ConcertinaMusic.com A site dedicated to the Chemnitzer
concertina, with many resources for
this instrument and stacks of free
sheet music notated for the Chemnitzer.
http://www.concertinamusic.com/sbox
Concertina Spotters Guide Maintained by Nick Robertshaw, a
larger-than-life individual who plays
Jeffries Duet. This site has a fine
collection of photos of the different
types of concertinas.
http://www.clark.net/pub/bignick/indentina.html
Die Deutsche Konzertina A site devised by Martin Doering and
dedicated to the anglo concertina.
The site used to be solely in German,
but has now acquired some English
translation.
http://www.mucl.de/Home/mdoering/konzertina/index.htm
Don Nichols Home Page Very knowledgeable gentleman when it
comes to the interiors of concertinas,
his home page has some fascinating
info and diagrams. Also carries the
text of Neil Wayne's magnificent
article on the history of the
concertina.
http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html
Duet Concertina Fingering This site has well set-out fingering
Charts charts for all the main Duet systems:
MacCann, Crane(Triumph) and Hayden.
Maintained by Marc Lamb, it fills a
real need.
http://www.his.com/~mis/fingeringcharts.html
Hayden Duet Concertina Page As its name says, a site created by
Jack J Wohr particularly for this
most rational of duet concertinas.
http://www.well.com/~jax/rcfb/hayden_duet.html
Hayden Concertina mailing List Also maintained by Jack Wohr, this
mailing list is intended specifically
for players of the Hayden concertina.
To subscribe send a blank email to
hayden_duet-subscribe@softwoehr.com
Le concertina anglo Irish en France
A very comprehensive site in French
dedicated to playing the anglo for
Irish music.
http://concertina.free.fr/
Le concertina en France A personal site created by Gilbert
Carrère, president of the Association
Française pour le Concertina.
http://perso.net-up.com/gilbertcarrere/
The MacCann Duet Concertina A comprehensive guide to the MacCann
duet concertina, ostensibly written
by the Good (and long dead) Professor
MacCann himself. Other interesting
info includes pdf's of all the
important concertina patents. Well
worth visiting.
http://www.maccann-duet.com/
Squeezebox mailing list Formerly the Accordion mailing list.
Has a 2-way gateway with the squeezebox
news group (see below). To subscribe,
send an email to
squeezebox-subscribe@egroups.com
or online at
www.egroups.com/group/squeezebox/info.html
rec.music.makers.squeezebox Also formerly the Accordion mailing
list! Covers all aspects of free reed
instruments including the concertina.
A very friendly, helpful and welcoming
community of players.
Steve Litwin's Home Page Steve is the polka editor of the
Polish American Journal, and
Chemnitzer concertina player. He has
assembled some good stuff about this
instrument.
http://www.polamjournal.com/polka/
Virtual Wheatstone Concertina This Flash demo takes a few seconds
to load on a modem, but once it
arrives it shows a very elegant
Victorian Wheatstone English
concertina which you can play with
your mouse. No, really!
http://www.id-werbeagentur.com/concertina/
Writings - John Kirkpatrick John Kirkpatrick ("The Guv'nor") has
within his site three articles on how
to play the anglo. Links to them are
on this page. Look at the rest of the
site while you're there.
http://www.johnkirkpatrick.co.uk/writings.htm
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