After a music career that's taken him around the world, Eddy Jay has turned to cutting-edge manufacturing to make his own instruments.
I’m from Walkinstown, a first-generation Dub. My parents were from the west of Ireland, Roscommon and Galway to be exact. My mother played the fiddle, my father played the tape recorder. He hadn’t a ...
Frank Edgley talks in January 2014 about making concertinas -- an ancient accordion-like instrument -- in his Windsor workshop. He ships many of them to Ireland, Japan and the United States. Follow ...
Thanks to a Canadian, an old instrument is making a comeback in popularity. Well over a century ago, the concertina, more commonly known as a “squeeze-box” was a widely popular instrument, but over ...
SUNDERLAND—The concertinas on the shelves in the show room at The Button Box in Sunderland are more than musical instruments, they are works of art. Though they can be made in a variety of ...