Yes I have monetized my pages- most of them Google pays me money when the ad links are clicked it also usually selects ads related to the page content. It does not keep people from the sites in any way. They are still totally free as they have been for something like 20 years.

Ralphie look up Madison Avenue- huge corporations that do nothing but design ways for people to sell things to other people who dont already want them. A big business and it can be done for folk music but people benefit from scarcity and they think small and only in the short term.

Durham University located in the North East of England- studied Archeology, Anthropology History. A great place- mainly because it is not far from the toon- Newcastle upon tyne.

Yes folk music perhaps uniquely, is a moral social duty. We must leave the world with our songs better protected and in more widespread active use than we found them. We found them in the minds of the people then took them and gave them to performers who merely entertain with them and make money they do not do enough to teach them and maintain the living tradition.

If you can not meet the demand for concertinas train someone to make them and have them take up the slack. That has not happened why- easy capitalism rewards scarcity if there were too many concertinas of quality then they would cost less.

Conrad