"I haven't dropped in for a while - I have better things to do, but haven't we already found out that WAV's "shoestring-travel through about forty countries" amounted to just one summer travelling - i.e. only a day or so in each country?" (JM) - I'd say in total the travels in my collection add up to a about a year on the hoof.

But as for the different matter of nomadically moving home, Eliza, why not just counties rather than countries, from now on?

As with the tenor-recorder/English-flute, Woody, when one plays a tune on the chromatic baritone English concertina (which I still think has a nice homely timbre) they are playing the very tune/top-line melody on the score - which, if also a singer, they can, of course, readily match with their voice. I also like the Anglo, but it is not fully chromatic and, with it's push-pull system, is more likely to develop holes and the associated gushing sounds that slightly spoil the timbre. And thanks for that on the duet's reeds, Ralphie/Nellie...Snail's also back out of his? shell, I see.

Stu - for what it's worth (seemingly a lot to you), I intend to remove the comma after "on"/before "but" in my last poem, above...and what's your stance, then, on "practiS/Ce" others above?

"Perhaps you should learn to play 'the bell', it might suit your learning technique and inimitable musical style. Or you could just wear it around your neck." (Smokey)... As well as bell ringers, on our local news recently, we've had a group of players each responsible for striking one or two variously-sized bells as their notes come up on the score - seems like a fine social activity.

"I haven't dropped in for a while - I have better things to do, but haven't we already found out that WAV's "shoestring-travel through about forty countries" amounted to just one summer travelling - i.e. only a day or so in each country?" (JM) - I'd say in total the travels in my collection add up to a about a year on the hoof.

But as for the different matter of nomadically moving home, Eliza, and I think that's what you mean, why not just counties rather than countries, from now on?