Prototype 'table top' foot-treadle-powered concertina. No serial number. No label. Each 'end' section is 8.94" x 9.69" diameter, flat rosewood with rectangular frieze of damaged fretwork. The ends are secured by eight long brass bolts. 69 keys: 32 left-hand, 37 right-hand. Tall ivory buttons, black accidentals, in the prototype layout of the 1844 patent. No bellows as such, but a pair of foot-operated bellows and a wind chest to control pressure. Brass double riveted tongues on square brass beds, screwed onto the underside of the action board. This model was patented in 1844 but never put into production. Two separate prototype system fingerboards are mounted on top of a wind chest which is inflated by a treadle on the four-legged support table.
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