A good choice. I'm obviously biased, but I do go along with whoever it was that said that it's difficult to play a melodeon either really badly or really well! This means that, like me, you should be able to perform relatively soon, confident in the knowledge that most people will think that you know what you are doing and assume that you've been playing longer than you have!

This is not to devalue the melodeon at all; merely to point out that it's a good instrument to learn if you want to be up and playing in a relatively short space of time (unlike the violin, for example!).

In the early stages, a little can go a long way!