Marie Lachenal (1848-1937) was an English

concertina A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows, with buttons (or keys) usually on both ends, unlike accordion buttons, which are on the front. The ...

performer of

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for Lachenal & Co., the concertina company that was run by her mother, Elizabeth Lachenal.

Life

Lachenal was one of three daughters. Her Swiss father was Louis and her mother was Elizabeth Lachenal, They owned a concertina manufacturing company in

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. Her father had started manufacturing in 1848 and by 1853 he had his own manufactory. Her father, Louis, died in 1861 and Elizabeth Lachenal continued the business. The three Lachanel daughters performed together from 1865 to 1866 and their performances received high acclaim, with Marie receiving praise from the press in her own right. Marie promoted the company's concertinas by performing with them. In 1868, she married the photographer Edwin Albert Debenham of Bournemouth. They had nine children, but only eight of them survived infancy.

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1848 births 1937 deaths Concertina players 19th-century English musicians 19th-century classical musicians {{England-musician-stub