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Summary

Free reed instruments, such as the accordion, concertina, harmonica, and melodica, etc., their music and their collection can be discussed in the newsgroup dedicated to them, rec.music.makers.squeezebox, easily found through your favorite news reader. The Usenet group has members who post links to pictures and blogs about their current free reed related projects (making a tuning table, finding an instrument), link to videos and recordings of performances, ask for help restoring and caring for their squeezeboxes, request help categorizing instruments, announce performances, meetings, and other web and real life squeezebox related groups, get advice about quality of instruments (plastic reeds, newly constructed concertinas, and so on), give feedback on user posted questions about buying instruments, restoring, collecting, and caring for instruments, obtaining recordings, reviewing manufacturers, discussing free reed instrument history, and more. If you'd like to learn more about concertinas from a regular rec.music.makers.squeezebox member, visit the website http://www.concertina.info/ where you will also find general information about the newsgroup and the other instruments it represents.