Grandpa Jones
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Louis Marshall Jones, known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and old time/country music singer. He was inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1978.
Louis 'Grandpa' Jones
Jones's gravestone in Goodlettsville, Tennessee
Concertina
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A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows, with buttons usually on both ends, unlike accordion but
Grandpa Jones
…the youngest of 10 children in a sharecropper's family. His father was an old-time fiddle player, and his mother was a ballad singer and adept on the concertina. His first instrument was guitar. Ramona Riggins, one of several women who began to gain some recognition in a musical form long dominated by men was…
Wheatstone English concertina, produced c. 1920
English concertina disassembled, showing bellows, reedpan and buttons
Hayden Duet Concertina
Chemnitzer concertina made by Star Mfg., Cicero, Illinois, USA in 2000