Wheatstone, his Sighing Reed… and the Great Regondi
November 28th, 2007 by Steve BowbrickYou want half-hour features about obscure musical instruments and their eccentric inventors? We've got half-hour features about obscure musical instruments and their eccentric inventors. Yes we have. This one's about the Concertina - about the whole category of 'free reed' instruments, in fact. About the whole period in history that produced the 'free reed' instruments (the second quarter of the 19th Century) and about Victorian physicist Sir Charles Wheatstone, its inventor. Really good stuff (MP3).
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