I posted this in a different thread which promptly died a death :-) I'm sure it was just a coincidence. Anyway, thought I'd create a new thread to see if I can get some ideas......

I bought my first concertina at Christmas (five weeks now and my fingers are getting much more muscular!) It's an English, as opposed to Anglo, so going in and out the notes are the same and it's chromatic as opposed to diatonic.

That leaves me with a dilemma. Since I know of no one else in Montreal who playes an English concertina I'm left with deciding when to suck and blow.

My strategy has been to "phrase" similar to blowing a whistle. I have also found that the notes for loud bouncy tunes sound best when sucking while the smooth transition between notes so they don't sound jerky works best when blowing. I've looked online for "how to" pages but most are for the Anglo concertina. Anyone care to add there tuppence worth?