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VERSION : 1.21
AUTHOR : CHRIS TIMSON
DATE : 23 July 2006
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DOCUMENT HISTORY
v1.0 11 Feb 1995 Initial release
v1.1 3 March 1995 Various amendments and updates following
feedback on v1.0
v1.2 8 April 1995 Minor amendments, additions and updates
v1.3 6 May 1995 Quote at head of introduction added: found
by Alan Clarke of Manchester Morris and
quoted in Concertina World, the ICA
newsletter. Other minor amendments and
additions.
v1.4 1 July 1995 New Internet section. Address for Frank
Edgley (at last!). Substantial rewrite of
text on Chemnitzer concertinas.
v1.5 28 October 1995 Minor amendments, additions and updates.
Another rewrite for Chemnitzers (I promise
I'll get it right one day). Wheatstone dates
of manufacture added in an appendix as it is
of minority interest.
v1.6 28 December 1995 Record change of accordion mailing list to
rec.music.makers.squeezebox. One other
minor tweak. (1.6a new URL for Bob Tedrow).
v1.7 1 April 1996 Minor amendments, additions and updates. A
few corrections of historical fact in sec. 2.
v1.8 - v1.12 (June 1996 - February 1997) Further minor amendments,
additions and updates.
v1.13 25 January 1998 Addition of Lachenal dating formulae.
Addition of Concertina Maintenance Manual
details. Other assorted amendments.
v1.14 30 May 1998 Major rewrite of Buying Advice section.
v1.15 29 August 1999 Lots of minor amendments, plus the new
Button Box concertina.
v1.16 12 April 2000 8 months since the last version, many
minor amendments.
v1.17 18 February 2001 10 months this time, many minor amendments
and some re-organisation.
v1.18 1 November 2001 Some significant additions to clubs, makers
and Internet sections. New home on the web
at www.concertina.info.
v1.19 6 October 2002 Lots of minor amendments.
v1.20 5 December 2004 Lots of minor amendments.
v1.21 23 July 2006 Lots of minor amendments, also (way overdue, but
very sad) all mailto links converted to graphics
to prevent spammers from scraping them.
Server move complete.