Concertina Maintenance Manual
The Concertina Maintenance Manual
Beloved of many concertina aficionados, Dave Elliott has been playing and repairing concertinas since he first inherited his great-uncle Harry's concertina. This first instrument was professionally restored. Dave being a Yorkshireman felt that this took too much time and cost far too much money. Shortly afterwards, he acquired another broken-down wreck of an instrument.
The restoration of this second concertina, and the notes made at the time led to the first edition of The Concertina Maintenance Manual. Since those days, Dave has restored and serviced many concertinas from miniatures to big brass instruments, Anglo and English to duets.
Dave is a professional engineer he graduated fromStratford University at a time long before the advent of computers and
