How many Salvationists played Irish reels?

You should try to give a listen sometime to David Paton, an Irish-style English player in Connecticut, who developed a very rhythmic bellows technique to get back a bit of the bounce that the Anglo provides more naturally. And the flip side of course is that on a 30 or 38 key anglo-chromatic you can work things out to play a tune much more smoothly, playing whole phrases with the bellows going in one direction.