It was a concerttina and it was Alf Edwards.

If I as a non-player might add something too. First of all IMHO you have cracked the hardest part - getting your child to take an interest in music and to practice.

Our morris team has a classically-trained violinist of rare quality - she had a seat in a major world orchestra - playing with us occasionally. She does things she doesn't normally do - these are:

Plays standind up
Plays on her own
Plays without the dots
Plays outside.

And she says they are all equally difficult to crack so to speak.

Sam Sweeney of Kerfuffle is classically trained and Catriona McDonald kept her folk-fiddling a secret whilst studying voice at University.Joe Broughton (Albion Band) teaches classical fiddle at the Birmingham Conservatoire and I believe teaches Sam.

There is a solution of course - let her learn an instrument that doesn't have a classical equivalent, melodeon/uillean pipes come to mind!!