G'day again Steve,

I should also say (apart from: "Damn - I got the html wrong again!" ... I must have mucked up the "close bold" code after one.) that the names "Accordion", "Concertina" and "Harmonica" are real traps in translation. The three words all mean, essentially, the same thing ... coming from: Greek, Italian/French (thus: late Latin) and Roman (early) Latin respectively.

As an example, the Germans (and many other northern Europeans) use the name "Harmonica" for what we anglophones call an accordion. The Argentinans call what the Germans named a "Bandonion" a concertina. The Italians have a whole swag of more precise descriptions for the half dozen, or so, different accordions (generically fisarmonicas) found around their regions.

Papà Piccolino may be playing what we would recognise as a concertina ... or not!

Regard(les)s,

Bob Bolton