G'day Zhenya,

The situation with singing to Anglos is roughly the same as singing to button accordions or (~) along with harmonicas: You have to sing in the keys and/or modes available on the one you have ... or get one you can sing to. I am working on singing to my Anglos - so I have a choice of G major / E minor / A Dorian on one row of my G/C and C major / A minor / D Dorian on the other ... and my D/G adds D major / B minor and E Dorian.

That covers a bit, but is by no means ideal - but my current problems are more related to my mis-spent youth playing mouthorgan: As soon as I manipulate a push/pull bellows instrument I have to suppress the blow/suck reflexes sneaking into my mouth!

I now have an English system concertina that I have to apply myself to restoring ... then I'm intending to work at the lovely accompaniment style of Danny Spooner, who starts by playing accompaniment chords on his English system ... then picking up extra melody notes from within the chord, or its environs. I think he does well at what I used to think was impossible - producing melody on an English at the same time as a chordal accompaniment.

(Don't hold your breath waiting for me to get good at it ... but listen long and hard to Danny Spooner ... if and when he tours about your parts of the world!)

Regards,

Bob Bolton