coll.Mr.Stephen Chambers
The ancestors of bandonion History
Carl Friedrich Uhlig (instrument maker from
chemnitz <1798-1874> ) got acquainted with the first accordion
invented (1829) by Cyrill Demian, on a trip to Vienna (Austria).
He was not pleased with the "programmed" chords at the left side of
Demian`s accordion and back home, he started making a modified instrument
increasing the range, and making some improvements.
At the end of 1834 he finished the first instrument , square schaped
with five keys on the left- and five keys on the right side,every single key
producing two different tones when changing the bellows direction (bi-sonoric),
producing 20 tones.
It may have looked like the instrument in the picture below.
The shown pictures were taken from collection items of Mr. Stephen Chambers from
Dublin (Ireland).
(picture) 20 tone Konzertina (from about 1854)
coll.Mr.Stephen Chambers
About the same model with 40 tones (20
keys)rectangular keys signed inside by pencill as:
< Pirner>(Carl.Friedrich)from Chemnitz(G)
(collection Mr.Stephen Chambers)
coll.Mr.Stephen Chambers
Uhlig named his instruments "Konzertina"
and in a short period of time (1840)his first 56 tone square Konzertinas were
sold.
The reed combination originally was single voiced and about 1868 the first
instruments with double reed combination 8+4 foot were produced.
coll. H.Geuns
Very old concertina made in Germany
20 keys , 40 tones (reed pan type, as in English concertina)bone
keys.
(If someone can tell me more about this instrument, let me know).
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