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Welcome to my concertina site.

About thirty years ago we decided to into the country for a drive with our youngsters. Whilst we were driving past a pub called The Fox we saw morris dancers performing and stopped to watch. One of the morris dancers came over (it was Sam - an old friend) and invited us to join them on their day tour, which we did. We had a wonderful day and joined in their sing-song in the evening.

I so enjoyed that day that I began to go along regularly and was eventualy invited to join them. I didn't fancy the dancing but the music appealed to me. One of the musicians was a well known folk singer called Brian Blanchard who played a CG Jeffries Anglo concertina. I fell in love with the instrument the moment I saw that it packed away into a little box after making so much noise. I immediately went out and purchased a cheap German Anglo concertina with big white buttons and started learning "Shepherds Hey" and went on from there.

I progressed with the German Anglo concertina, and some of the members of the Broadwood Morris Men formed a country dance band and asked me to play along. By this time I had purchased a rare duet concertina and exchanged it for a Jones Anglo and part exchanged that for a Jeffries 38 button CG. I was by then tuning and repairing concertinas as a hobby / extra cash and bought a GD and BpF Jeffries. My final buy was a Wheatstone Linota.

Other bands approached me to play for them and I joined The Biggest Trio In The World (6 of us). We played for a large folk festival in Ris Oranges near Paris and heard French traditional music for the first time and just had to have a go at it. Mel Stevens was at that time heavily into bagpipe manufacture and made himself some French pipes. We found a Hurdy Gurdy player and formed Rosbif. I now play for Gig CB formed from musicians that go to The George Inn sessions. It's great fun and very noisy. Why not visit if you are in the area. Bring your concertina, we play on the first Monday (except for bank holidays) of every month!