Re Alan's comments about the Liverpool concertina bands, I can confirm that. I recently purchased on Edeophone on ebay with Ralphie's assistance, and on meeting up with the vendor in Liverpool found that the instrument I had purchased had belonged to a gent who had initially played in a Salvation Army concertina band, and then in an Orange Lodge band... and that there are still several Orange Lodge concertina bands that march in the city on July 12th (and also on occasion from the ferreting about on the net that I have carried out seem to venture down to London as well!!) The vendor told us that these bands are largely composed of Maccann duet players - which was a pretty surprising thing to find out. But in fact, searches on Youtube do yield some of them up. One in Toxteth is quite clearly composed of players of both Anglos and Maccanns ... and I believe that my newly acquired beast was used for that purpose too!! The bands have a very heavy percussion accompaniment from drums ... and the music played seems to be mostly along the lines of Sousa marches.

Oh and by the way, as Ralphie said ... Onwards!! (Not sure about the being doomed bit though!)