Charles Jeffries and His Sons: Concertina Makers (Appendix 2)

Handwritten Key Diagrams and Chord Charts from Jeffries Tutors

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Appendix 1: Stamping, Etching, and Handwriting in Jeffries Concertinas

Fig. A2.1. Key diagram for a 50-key Jeffries duet concertina, from a handwritten tutor by Thomas Jeffries, 1959 (Horniman Museum)

Fig. A2-2. Chord charts for a MacCann duet concertina, from a handwritten tutor, probably by Thomas Jeffries

Fig. A2.3. Key diagram for a 38-key Anglo concertina in F/C, from a handwritten tutor, possibly by William Jeffries

Fig. A2.4. Key diagram for a 50-key Jeffries duet concertina, from a hand-written tutor by Charles Jeffries jnr [Concertina & Squeezebox, 14-15 (1987), 74-75]

Fig. A2.5. Key diagram for an Anglo concertina in C/G “artistic fingering” (Courtesy of Andrew C. Norman)

Fig. A2.6. Key diagram for a 38-key Anglo concertina by an unknown artist (no date)

A Note on the JEFFREYS Tutor: Buyers of Jefferys’s German Concertina Tutor, With 10 & 20 Keys (London: C. Jefferys, c. 1885) may have thought that they were purchasing a Charles Jeffries publication, but there is no evidence that the publisher intended to deceive. Charles Jefferys (died 1865) was a prolific songwriter and innovator in artistic lithography. Founded in the 1830s, his firm was well-known in its own right as the publisher of the Jefferys’s . . . Tutor series for various musical instruments. Theresa H. Jefferys, his widow, managed the firm at the time that Jefferys’s German Concertina Tutor was published (see John A. Parkinson, Victorian Music Publishers: An Annotated List [Ann Arbor: Harmonie Park Press, 1990], 142).

Fig. A2.7. Cover of Jefferys’s German Concertina Tutor (Horniman Museum)

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Appendix 1: Stamping, Etching, and Handwriting in Jeffries Concertinas