Folks

As an academic exercise, this is fine. Anyone innocently reading this thread, though, might think it made some kind of sense to do this sort of thing.

To me, one of the most fundamental things about what we tend to call "folk" music (as separate from "classical" or "art" music) is that we accept the basic characteristics of our instruments and don't treat them as limitations but rather as part of what fashions the style in which we play. If you want to get loads of chords why not take up the piano accordion (or use one of the chromatic button accordions with loads of basses). A D/G melodeon's actually designed to be played diatonically and generally sounds better that way.

;-)
Ian