Pictures of your Box

lixnaw · Post by **lixnaw** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 2:08 pm

Please post them here!

My first box, a Saltarelle Nuage, bought nearly two years ago, the sound is magic!!

And this beauty arrived last week, extremely responsive and balanced, a Cairdin 2 voice, it takes me miles away!

Ro3b · Post by **Ro3b** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:51 am

Here's a link to some photos of my old Hohner Deluxe Double Ray, which years of energetic use have made into a true thing of beauty. Notice the bent grill, the stained, ripped grill cloth, the scratches and dings, the worn bellows tape, the area on the edge of the keyboard where 40-odd years of thumbs have eroded away the paint and even some of the wood. That's my cat Kyosaku posing with the box in the fourth pic.

I mainly play my Catagnari Fazzy these days, and of course it's a beautiful instrument too, but in a totally different way.

Silvio Zapparoli · Post by **Silvio Zapparoli** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:28 am

The my new Beltrami accordion!
This morning Mr. Beltrami called me and said me that on of this accordion is in Chicago...
The owner is listed in this forum?

colomon · Post by **colomon** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:38 am

This Hohner G/C is the box I usually practice on. The picture is old, now that it's repaired and getting played every day, there's no dust on it.

Bob Tedrow · Post by **Bob Tedrow** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:42 pm

Congratulations on the new forum.

I'll bookmark it.

Here is a picture of one of my concertinas

I hope I did that correctly

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:27 am

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:28 am

Ha! I'd never have pegged you as going for something so fancy Peter

Nice looking piece of work there.

Loren

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:31 am

It's actually my son's, I am only ever so often allowed to even touch it.

Loren · Post by **Loren** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:34 am

Heh heh, I suspected as much.

Loren

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:05 pm

I get tot pick tunes out on it when he's in school.

That concertina is a lovely sounding old box, it's actually quite plain to look at except for the fretwork but it's a very sturdy, well made and well playing instrument.

I may be quite happy playing a cheap whistle but there is a considerable gain playing very well made pipes or a good vintage concertina, no fuss over that from me.

Caj · Post by **Caj** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:00 pm

Caj

lixnaw · Post by **lixnaw** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:30 pm

I admit concertinas are the best looking instruments imo, they also give me that mysterious hidden beauty kinda look.
Mysterious and hidden because i haven't a clue how to play them.
But i love the sound. That way i enjoy them too

Bob Tedrow · Post by **Bob Tedrow** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:47 pm

rh · Post by rh » Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:00 pm

nice looking work, Bob!

johnkerr · Post by **johnkerr** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:58 am

I don't have any pictures of my concertina, and even if I did I wouldn't know how to post them here, but if you want to get an idea of what it looks like (in complete anatomical detail) check out this webpage from Kensington Concertinas:

http://www.kensingtonconcertinas.com/Pa ... tures.html

The photo of the completed concertina in the middle of the bottom row is pretty much what mine looks like. That's concertina maker Dana Johnson, the man behind the Kensington brand, and his wife Becky in the bottom right photo.