Do they do a G/D or other keys Bryn? (Did you ever get hold of Geoff or Peter btw?) I have often wondered what a C/C#/D or some other chromatic version would be like as well - anyone know of any such beast?

I started with a 'no-name' 20 button. Then got a 28 key George Jones which I loved but it needed about £400 spending to fettle it so I traded it for a 30 key Hohner. That was OK but I was offered a 30 key Lachnal by Bill Sables at a fair price so I gave the Hohner to Bill in part ex.

Still can only play about 3 tunes and accompany 2 songs but hoping joing a session next year will help:-)

Them Violins were £35 in Whitley Bay, Diane. You should have come up while you had chance! They also had some nice Suzuki 'school type' recoreders for £2.99 - Got one of them:-)

Only cautionary tale I have of cheap squeeze boxes was that my mate Martin Hall bought a Parrot 48 button piano accordian. Sounded and played fine until one day when he got it out of the box at a gig and half the buttons had fallen inside the frame!

Sure yours will be OK though , Bryn:-)

Cheers

DeG