concertina
Sign in to saveA 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.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Concertina
- Instrument.image
- Wheatstone English Concertina.jpg
- Instrument.image_capt
- Wheatstone English concertina, produced c. 1920
- Instrument.background
- other
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 412.132
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- Free-reed aerophone
- Instrument.developed
- 1829, 1834
- Instrument.inventors
- Sir Charles Wheatstone, Carl Friedrich Uhlig
- Instrument.related
- Accordion, harmonica, melodeon
- Instrument.sound sample
- Scotch reels
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Systems
- English and Duet concertinas
- German concertinas
- Chemnitzer concertina
- Bandoneon
- Anglo concertina
- Franglo
- Gallery
- History
- 19th century
- Early 20th century
- Folk revival and present
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
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. The English version was invented in 1829 by Sir Charles Wheatstone, while Carl Friedrich Uhlig introduced the German version five years later, in 1834. Various forms of concertina are used for classical music, for the traditional music of Ireland, England, and South Africa, and for tango and polka music.