with out starting the thread on a totally different road, do i and forgive me if im wrong, from the above post am i to assume then that folk in all its guises belongs to the collectors and academics therefore pushing it into the realms of club sshhers and the like, if you wants folk to be put into the eye of the public , take it to em . when i lived in wales there was an ol boy used to come into the boozer with a battered and obviously well loved sqeeze box, he would order his pint, sit in a corner or in the garden if the rain god was in a good mood, and off he would go playing away, no one booked him no one paid him he just played for the heck of it, once he had his pint off he would go now thats folk