A newcomer to the concertina.net forums daringly calling himself "Bullethead" has just presented some thought-provoking threads:

http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=18123
http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=18156

which very much connects to the since 25 years everlasting advocating from myself concerning various ergonomic flaws with all the common concertinas - anglos, duets, englishes - despite their attractive format which deceitfully makes people believe they are easy to hold and handle.

I warmly sympathize with Bullethead of course wishing him luck to convince the conservative concertina community that *something* might be done to facilitate handling their instruments and to make them more suitable for various kinds of performance. He is verbal and humorous and first of all speaks/writes *english*- which I do not as a scandinavian alien - something I willingly adopt as an excuse and possible explanation that for all these years I have not succeeded in the mission reforming concertinas and converting the users of them to some modern belief...

I do recommend you all to follow those c.net threads.There is a chance they will turn out as eye-openers for some....