Originally Posted by
Goat
I'm a musician, I play guitar now but also want to own a Concertina some day.
as a teen I bought a scholer concertina, you didn't ask for advice but I would 100% recommend you go a bit on the expensive side with it when you get it, usually the cheaper ones have reed plates that are one long strip of reeds and once one goes out of tune or breaks, you're mostly done for with that note unless you spend big bucks on a repair (usually more than what the concertina cost when it's cheap)
It took me a couple of years to finally find somebody who could tune my hohner pokerwork melodeon, and I had to give my concertina away to a friend of mine since I couldn't find anybody to do the repair, if you go for a more expensive concertina the reeds are single slot by note and that's easy to replace and the whole integrity of the instrument is not compromised and that's years of playing left to enjoy.
Either that or get crafty with it and buy a cheap concertina for like $50 and buy a cheap harmonica and do the transposing with the same reed plate, fun project and really makes you understand free-reed aerophones from the inside out.
