This is a Stagi 30-Key Anglo in C/G. It is tuned to concert pitch (A=440hz).

This is a concertina that came to us recently in part-exchange, and it’s worth us being honest from the start and saying that these are not instruments that we like, or that we have any time for in general. Having said that, we understand that genuine concertinas are expensive things for beginners, so there will always be a place for things like this- anything that provides access to the wonderful instrument that is the concertina can’t be a terrible thing.

An honest description of this instrument is that it isn’t a very fast player, isn’t very efficient, and doesn’t sound anything remotely like a concertina- the budget accordion reeds, surprisingly, make it sound like a budget accordion. But as stated previously- if you can’t afford a genuine instrument and are desperate to give the concertina a go in any form, then this does play and you’ll be able to get tunes out of it.

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