No. 12: A 40 Button Maccann Duet
My twelfth concertina was a special 40 button Maccann Duet with some custom ergonomic features.
Specification
- 40 buttons (+ air): 20 notes per side, one octave apart
- Lowest note on left hand is G3
- Six sides, 6 3/8″ wide
- 3/16″ diameter brass capped buttons
- 2mm button height and travel (buttons stop flush with end plate)
- Air button in right thumb position, 8mm high
- Black button bushing cloth
- Amboyna veneered end plates and walls
- Thuya burr, ogee profile borders
- Thuya burr handrails, extra tall with curved top and adjustable position
- All external woodwork stained dark red and French polished
- Flat ends with fancy fretwork
- Seven fold plain black goatskin bellows
- Black imitation leather bellows papers
- Aluminium alloy reed frames
- Aluminium alloy action levers
- Long scale steel reeds on both sides
- Radial sloped sycamore reed pans with no inner reed chambers
- Bach/Lehman tuning, A=440Hz
- Weight: 1305g
…