Over my time with Mudcat's Forum I've seen the "Chords Request" prefix countless times and it made me wonder. As a singer and a player of tunes on a concertina I can understand requests for melody info but I wonder if it's mostly guitar players who ask for chords. If so, is the melody insufficient for them to "get" the tune? Another thread currently dealing with singing has a posting about guitarists watching other guitarists's fingering as an aid to accompaniment when learning a tune (I've also seen them picking up 'new' chord patterns) but players of other instruments don't seem to need such observations and just go for the melody. Not being a guitarist I thought I'd ask. It may have been thoroughly discussed elsewhere but I've not yet found it, if it has.