No it's not the folk tunes I mean - most of the originals are fine on the instruments we have - it is the Vaughan Williams arrangements of the tunes that fly off beyond the range of the instrument or have been placed into different keys or have included notes that a chromatic instrument could cope with better. Simple system flutes, whistles, pipes can get around this to some extent by just choosing an instrument in a different key but you can't really change instrument midway through a bar!!! well you could but it would need some nifty hand movements

The majority of what we are doing will be 4 part harmony arrangements for acapella voices but we will have a few with instruments and trying to do a happy medium between folk and classical eg using piano, melodeon and simple system flute in Lovely on the Water, whistle, melodeon and guitar on Horn Fair