"To use cricketing terms,wav has had his middle stump,off stump leg stump,systematically hit,he has been bowled over,by a googly a full toss,a leg cutter and a chinaman,and like W G GRACE Refuses to exit to the pavilion,he believes like Grace,that the audience have come to see him perform.
WAV let me give you some tips,this is constructive musical criticism,get some voice lessons so that you can hold a note for a length of time without going flat,I would also advise an instrument other than the recorder,that can accompany your singing and help you to make a more varied sound,banjo, guitar etc.,,the didgeridoo would also help you with your breathing[no offence intended]." (CB)...as much as I enjoyed VISITING Ireland, I will never do as you've done and "exit" England for that or any other country.
And, also unlike you, I'll keep working at just THE TUNES - as my English folky forebears did for centuries.

To Pip - at least we agree on concertinas, and I'm glad you managed to get folks talking about them, plus bells, brass, etc...and, yes, CB, I prefer the chromatic English concertina for the reasons you, and I, just gave.

Eliza - most of my repertoire I've learnt from the dots and following my flute and keyboards; but I have also learnt a couple of E trads (where I haven't found the dots and have just began to work them out myself) from the likes of Waterson:Carthy - but they are E TRADS, and surely that's okay within our ORAL TRADITION. (To go back to cricket for a moment, are you sure you're playing each ball on it's merrits?)