As my main instrument for many years has been a Wheatstone-layout 40-key Anglo, I was very interested to read about the Koot Brit. US$3000 (even with the addition of postage and import tariff) seems too good to be true for a fairly new, good quality, 40-key Anglo, but I've taken a chance and bought it.

Ironically, it is only a few months since I bought a Wheatstone C-G from Chris Algar, so I'll see how I get on with the Koot when it arrives and possibly then sell one or the other.

I have much respect for Guran's ideas about ergonomics. But on the other hand I have been playing concertinas with the conventional small buttons for more than 40 years, so that's what my fingers expect to find. If a Wheatstone-layout 40-key Anglo with large buttons existed, and I had a chance to try it, I would certainly be very interested to do so; but I am not motivated to try modifying one of mine.

Richard