Paul Hardy's Lachenal Concertina 58748 Paul Hardy's Lachenal Concertina 58748 Pictures of Lachenal Concertina 58748See a better view with a bigger image, or a second view on its box:.See a better view with a bigger image, or other views of its workings:. Description of Lachenal Concertina 58748My Lachenal concertina is hexagonal and black, with 48 metal keys. The endsare fretwork, with silvery metal (nickel?) inlay.
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The bellows are black, with a blackand goldy coloured patterned transfer on each segment.One one end, in an oval aperture in the fretwork can be read 'Lachenal & Co,Patent Concertina Manufacturer, London'. At the other end is a serial number,58748.I have been told that it is a Lachenal Excelsior, probably dating from 1931.This is late period, as Lachenal was taken over by Wheatstone in the mid 1930s.It came in its original box, black leather with velvet lining, also with a Lachenal label.It is an English concertina, which means that it produces the same note when a key is pressed,regardless of whether the bellows are going in or out. The other main type of concertina is theAnglo, which gives different notes according to bellows direction, like a mouth organ does.It is in good condition, all notes play, and it is accurately in tune withitself and is now in concert pitch. However it was originally tuned to 'old Philharmonic pitch' of A=452, whichis about a quarter tone sharp with respect to concert pitch (A=440).