Thanks Tootler, that Lee Oskar page is informative. Any idea what the tune used on the harmonic minor demo is? It starts out like "Sakura" and then heads off to the Ukraine.

George usually has an F natural minor Lee Oskar in his bag. I have sometimes managed to persuade him to get it out to play along with me for some Scottish tunes in extreme flat keys (like Nathaniel Gow's "Mr Ronald Crawford" in F minor). A 24-hole in the same tuning would work better.

Tunes in flat keys are an argument *for* unequal tunings. When they were written they were not intended to sound the same as the one- or two-sharp majority.