and you guest ed, are extremely rude.
this thread is about alf edwards english concertina accompaniments, the point is that alans post is that it is a promotion of his cd, it is not informative about alfs accompaniments and in my opinion is inaccurate.
his post tells us very little about alfs concertina accompaniments,furthermore what al says is not entirely accurate, alf used chords a lot as here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuiFuptkEoQ
Ihave listened to a lot of alfs accompaniments and this is typical, a chordal style during songs and a bit of melody beteen verses occasionally, he did not use single melody much during singing