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Description: | The Hayden system concertina was invented by Brian Hayden in 1967. The same system had been patented in 1896 in Switzerland by Kaspar Wicki. Hayden independently arrived at his duet system after radically altering a Jeffries duet concertina. The major advantage of Hayden's system is the uniformity of fingering between key signatures, allowing players to transpose music between keys with relative ease and making it particularly popular with professional players. This example was commissioned by the Horniman Museum from Steve Dickinson. It was made under the Wheatstone tradename, a legacy of Charles Wheatstone who invented the concertina and whose company produced them throughout that late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dickinson bought the name in the 1970s and continues to make Wheatstone concertinas in his workshop in Suffolk.
Hayden system duet concertina. Paper labels are positioned in oval apertures at the top of each face. The right reads 'BY HER MAJESTY'S LETTERS PATENT/C.WHEATSTONE./Inventor,/21, Bridge Street,/Stowmarket,/SUFFOLK, ENGLAND'; the left: 'WHEATSTONE & Co./Patentees & Manufacturers./~60194~/Concertinas & Aeolas./S. DICKINSON ~ MAKER'. The fretted octagonal endplates and the sides are of five-ply sycamore, finished with high quality furniture wax. The fittings and buttons are silver-plated, the button stems are turned out of engineering-grade plastic (lactoid rod). Plastic thumbplates. Reeds of high carbon sprung steel 'musical steel' VPN no. circa 51-580 with brass frames. Bellows are goatskin covered 2mm. thick saddlery (cowskin) leather, vegetable dyed and tallow dressed. The maker notes that the bellows can be cleaned with a toothbrush and Cherry Blossom ® shoe polish. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Subjects: | brass (alloy) plastic silver brass sycamore steel leather iron | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-120246 |
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