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FS: Chinese Concertina Cheap

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This was posted several days ago on concertina.net, but I haven't gotten a firm answer yet so:

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I'm selling the first concertina I ever got, a cheap Chinese 30-button Anglo jobbie. I'm asking $120 including shipping to the USA. It has the Wheatstone/Lachenal layout for the accidental (top) row. Send me an email if you're interested, first come first served. PayPal strongly preferred (I'm moving very soon).

Some negatives: It is a bit of a pain to play compared to my Geuns-Wakker (or any other mid-level or better concertina). It moves a bit stiffly, and requires more pressure to play. The reeds speak a bit slower. The tone is a bit cheezy. It looks kinda cheap and plasticy. The bellows hold a fair amount less air than my 7-fold Geuns-Wakker bellows. The strap isn't that comfortable. The air button is a bit slow. The buttons are a bit close to the handstrap, so it's not for someone with large hands. The A reed on the far right of the middle row on the left hand is sometimes slow to speak (I haven't done anything to try to fix it). The "CScale.mp3" file below shows the A reed speaking OK but a bit slow. Playing "Constant Billy" in C seems to somehow bring out the problem (it may have to do with changing bellows direction?), so check out "Billy.mp3" below which I recorded to show it acting up. (I could of course have used the A reed on the G row instead, which works fine).

On the positives: it's cheap! The air button actually falls under my thumb well. It's fairly airtight. I can get tunes out of it OK, I wouldn't say it discouraged me from playing as a beginner (although it would now). I have played some concertinas that were much more difficult to play (including some Stagis), and had worse button placements. It sounds better than those plastic Hohners (I think). It includes a soft case.

Pictures:
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/Chinese/ConcLft.jpg
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/Chinese/ConcRgt.jpg
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/Chinese/ConcOpen.jpg
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/Chinese/ConcClosed.jpg
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/Chinese/ConcInBag.jpg
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/Chinese/ ... Zipped.jpg

Audio recordings:
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/audio/Ch ... eelman.mp3
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/audio/Ch ... shokan.mp3
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/audio/Ch ... terdam.mp3
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/audio/Chinese/Laurel.mp3
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/audio/Chinese/CScale.mp3
http://concertina.JeffLeff.com/audio/Chinese/Billy.mp3
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