Lachenal & Co.
Directory
Resources in the Concertina Library for Lachenal & Co.
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Lachenal Concertina Pricelists
- collected by Chris Algar
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Most of the earlier "pricelists" here were printed as trade advertisements, in dated serials.
Those actually issued as separate pricelists were found in old concertina cases; from internal evidence it is
possible to date these c. 1890 to c. 1925.
- Posted 07 March 2005
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The Lachenal Sisters Visit Edinburgh, 1865–1866
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by Robert Gaskins
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At Christmas of 1865–1866, three young daughters of the late Louis Lachenal gave a
series of concerts in Edinburgh introducing “concerted music” played
on treble, tenor, and bass concertinas. We think this was also exactly the period when
Lachenal & Co. had lost their contract to manufacture concertinas for Wheatstone,
making it important to publicize Lachenal’s own brand.
Based on clippings from The Scotsman newspaper, Edinburgh, notices of
concerts and reviews, October 1865 through January 1866.
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Posted 01 February 2005
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Marie Lachenal: Concertinist
- by Faye Debenham and Randall C. Merris
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New photographs, genealogical data, and information about
Marie Lachenal, eldest of Louis Lachenal’s daughters,
and about her family life as the wife of the photographer Edwin Debenham.
First published in
PICA [Papers of the International Concertina Association], Vol. 2 (2005), pp. 1–17.
The web version adds large colour photographs and additional information which
has been discovered since the text went to print.
- Posted 15 November 2005
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Lachenal Mystery Postcard
- by Robert Gaskins
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A postcard sent by Lachenal in January 1928 to an inquirer from
Portugal, declining to “stoop to such practices” (practices unspecified).
Offered in an eBay auction, March 2005.
- Posted 07 March 2005
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Lachenal “Edeophone” Registered Design 1889
- from Randall C. Merris
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The registered design for the “Edeophone” 12-sided concertina, registered by
“Lachenal and Company, 4 Little James Street, Bedford Row, London, Concertina
Manufacturers.” Registered design No. 129662, Class 3; date of registration
26th July 1889.
- Posted 07 March 2005
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Lachenal “Reedshoe” Trademark 1878
- from Robert Gaskins
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Trade Marks Journal showing the “reedshoe” image registered as a trademark by
“Richard Ballinger, of and on behalf of the Firm of Lachenal and Co., 4,
Little James Street, Gray’s Inn Road, W. C., Middlesex; Concertina
Manufacturers.” Registration No. 15,222; application received 31st Aug. 1878,
publication date January 8, 1879. Stated to be not used prior to 13th Aug. 1875.
Class of goods: 9.
- Posted 07 March 2005
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Concertina Tutor List
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by Lachenal & Co.
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A single page from Lachenal & Co. including
“Instruction Book for the Duet Concertina, by Professor Maccann”
offered at 2 shillings.
Collected by Chris Algar.
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Posted 15 February 2003
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Improvements in Concertinas (1884)
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by John Hill Maccann
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British Patent No. 4752 of 1884, Provisional Specification (12 March 1884)
and Complete Specification (18 November 1884) with two figures. 4 pages.
The one and only patent dealing with the Maccann Duet concertina.
Maccann's invention creates a fully chromatic Duet (capable of playing
in all key signatures) based on the older diatonic Wheatstone “duett” system.
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Posted 15 November 2001
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Improvements in Concertinas (1885)
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by James Alsepti and Richard Ballinger
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British Patent No. 8290 of 1885, Provisional Specification (08 July 1885)
and Complete Specification (08 April 1886) with two figures. 5 pages.
The “bowing valve” patent. These valves were for
English concertinas, providing a feature not present in the Wheatstone
designs, and were promoted by Lachenal.
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Posted 22 December 2003
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Thomas William Saunders, Will (1899, 1907)
- from Robert Gaskins
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Last will and Testament of "Thomas William Saunders of 136 Windmill Street, Gravesend … died on
the 8th day of September 1907." In 1899 Saunders bequeaths his interest in "the firm of Lachenal & Coy
in which I am a partner", but in a codicil dated 1907 bequeaths the "business of which I am now the sole
proprietor trading under the name of 'Lochenal and Co.'."
- Posted 15 August 2005
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The Concertinist's Guide
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by John Hill Maccann
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The Most Simple Modern Methods; How to Play
Correctly, With or Without a Tutor
8vo. London: Howard & Co., 1888.
Images from a microfilm of a copy at the Bodleian Library, replacing
a British Library copy destroyed in World War II. (Former British Library
shelfmark D-7808.c.14.(14.), replaced by British Library microfilm
Mic.A. 10532(4), Bodleian Shelfmark 17426 e 3(2).) Also a full
transcription which is searchable in the Adobe PDF reader. 50 pages.
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Posted 15 November 2001
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