Chemnitzer concertina
Maker
O.R.A. Di Guerrini Aldo
Distributor
Browns Distributing
Date1958-1965 ca.
Place MadeCastelfidardo, Italy, Europe
ModelStradella
Serial No.None
Markings“STRADELLA” (located in the right hand side buttons frame; capital letters with white plastic background, golden color outline and paste jewels inlayed)“MADE IN ITALY” (back of the instrument, nearer the left hand side)
“18” and “LA” (stamped batch marks located in both interior reed frames)DescriptionOctagonal shaped concertina with a Chemnitzer keyboard of 52 buttons (24 on the left hand side, 28 on the right hand side), and an air lever on the right hand side.
Outside structural casing made of black composite plastic material, and internal structure made of wood. Black leather bellows in a three-set of five folds, decorated with gold and metallic-blue colored paper. The folding edges of the bellows are reinforced with the same black plastic material of the casing and decorated with some kind of a white plastic material imitating a shell effect. This same material is inlayed on both sides of the concertina (end frames and surrounding the buttons). The instrument is richly decorated with paste jewels, geometrical lines and motives with a golden color outline and some floral designs (small branch of leaves; four-leaf clovers). Two padded leather hand straps on both sides.DimensionsLength (bellows closed): 17.7 in (450 mm)
Width/Height: 11.8 in (300 mm)ProvenanceRussell Enokson of Minneapolis, Minnesota, bought this instrument from Brown’s Music, New Ulm, Minnesota.Published References“Polka Professor's Compositions Honor Museum.” _America’s Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter_ 27, No. 2 (May 2000): 7-8.
Credit LineGift of Russell Enokson, 1999
Object number07382
On View
On view
1850-1854 ca.
