Lachenal 20-key Miniature

20 key, metal ends, good six-fold bellows, steel-reeds, metal-buttons

9.5 cm across flats

It bears the stamp of Colin Dipper and it has been checked and polished by David Robertson.

It comes in it’s cute original Mahogany box.

It used to belong to an old lady, who painted the key-tops with nail-polish.

The button-layout correspondes to the upper half of a treble concertina:

It starts with the C on the right side!

It plays well and extremely loud!

For size comparison between a 12 key miniature and a piccolo

Even though it isn’t an Aeola I couldn’t resist this little beauty – and I payed too much for it;-)

It has a lot more musical potential than a 12 key miniature and holds the air better…

I rarely play with others and I don’t particularly like the layout starting on C. So I swapped all four F and F# reeds

for a while. I then can comfortably play the fingering of the key of G, while it sounds in D.

Currently the tuning is normal, however…

Please feel free to contact me about details and prices at robert@concertinas.de!