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John Hill Maccann, or Professor Maccann (variously rendered as Maccann, MacCann or McCann [1]) (1861 – 1915?) was a concertina player and designer from Plymouth, England. In 1884, Maccann patented a new design of Duet concertina , which became the first successful and most widely accepted layout of that instrument. [ 2 ]
A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows, with buttons (or keys) usually on both ends, unlike accordion buttons, which are on the front. The concertina was developed independently in both England and Germany. [1]
Zimmerman expanded on Uhlig's early 1- and 2-row square concertinas, developing a 3-row chromatic bisonoric instrument, eventually selling his business to instrument maker Ernst Louis Arnold and emigrating to the United States, where he later became famous for his string instrument invention, the autoharp.
Concertina made by Lachenal & Co. circa 1900. Lachenal & Co. was a British firm producing concertinas from approximately 1850–1936. [1] The firm was founded by Louis L. Lachenal (c. 1821–1861), a Swiss emigrant to the United Kingdom, who arrived there in 1839, and by 1844 was working in support of the famous Wheatstone concertina firm before founding a supporting contract firm and by 1858 ...
In the English Folk Revival of the 1960s, though the English concertina had been more an art music instrument, it became popular with British folk musicians. Karl Dallas has suggested that the mere presence of 'English' in the name attracted some of the revival's demographic; [6] however the instrument's versatility and portability were also important as factors in the instrument's adoption. [7]
Charles Wheatstone's Duet concertina 1855–60 Hayden Duet concertina . The Duet concertina is a family of concertinas, distinguished by being unisonoric (producing the same note on the push and pull of the bellows, unlike the Anglo concertina) and by having their lower notes on the left and higher on the right (unlike the English concertina).