> I take it you aren't dealing with Peter Hyde up close ...
> are you in Australia, or is the box coming by seamail?

I'm in the UK. As you can imagine there has been a deal of email between us since this project started, in the course of which I started hosting Pete's web site for him, his old one having got very out of date.

> Since Peter started off making (Anglo) concertinas,
> I presume Peter is a concertina player. The complex
>tooling needed to make concertinas from scratch was a
> battle for someone not in the trade and you have to
> get a technician to make ...

Indeed so. Colin Dipper (who lives a few minutes from me and I believe is the greatest concertina maker in history) was originally trained as a toolmaker. Still this is somewhat wandering off-thread, so we'd better return things to the melodeon players ...

Chris