Ralph's mention of not playing the duet at Irish sessions reminded me of a session in the very early years at Whitby festival in the the Elsinore. There was a morning session going (They opened the bar at 10:30!) and a few 'clever dicks' decided to change to keys that some others could not play in. There was an English concertina player, and I think it was Ian Goodyear but I could be mistaken, who spotted this and took the same tune to another key, and another, and another... After the 5th or 6th key change he was on his own, with said clever dicks glowering and everyone else in the room grinning from ear to ear. He stopped with the phrase 'Why has everyone else stopped?' and to a huge round of applause.

Nowt to do with the thread but it was a good memory:-)

Cheers

DeG