Long ago, when the only concertina players I'd ever heard were Alistair Anderson and John Kirkpatrick, I assumed the English concertina system would be the natural one for playing Irish music and was gobsmacked when I first heard Irish music played on an Anglo.

Mary and I are working on a set of tunes for two concertinas, one English and one Anglo. The aim is to make it sound so that you can't tell which is which.

We won't be entering any Fleadh competitions with them.

Anahata