Dear Howard ,good points, there is a way that the english can sound rather like the style of the anglo and thats the chord or drone[ tapped lightly]use.you might get a phrase all on the left on the english b g d b, tapping on the right hand side with a low d[ ,its not exactly ornamentation] but reminiscent of both the pipes and the anglo.
and the same for a or e round an a minor arpeggio when it occurs in a tune , I have been doing this for years and I find it very satisfactory . Dick Miles