Interesting point Mr Vermin, what would he do, ask the second melodeon player to leave?

"The point?" - to play with others - that's our point. The only limit is the size of the room. We can get about 30 at an absolute squeeze. The problem then is not enough elbow room to play melodeons, etc.

I think about 100 people played in one of the Beginners / Improvers Session at Shrewsbury last year and I assume they all enjoyed taking part. It remains my inspiration.

Quite a few Irish sessions happen around Manchester. They play quick and in strings of 3, 4 or 5 reels and so on. Most if not all of them play extremly well and the music is very exciting. But most of us don't expect to get to that standard and we have the feeling that most of our English tunes sound OK at a steady pace

As Greg said above "There is room for us all...
Yes indeed. But there is also a time and place for everything. "

Cheers
Les