This is a Wheatstone Aeola Baritone-Treble with steel reeds (serial number 24667). It has been refinished, fitted with new bellows, pads, valves and straps, and has been tuned to concert pitch (A=440hz).

This would probably have been one of Wheatstone’s first Aeola Baritone-Trebles, and it is a nice instrument. It’s a more inward-sounding concertina than some later instruments, with a soft tone- a much gentler concertina, perfect for song accompaniment. It is almost a semi-Baritone Treble, with a couple of extra notes on each side underneath a Tenor-Treble as opposed to a full extra row.

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