Shambles jsut because you happened to be at a festival where the owners of the Tenor Bahjos could not play a tune on them does not mean that one cannot play a reel on one.See Barney Mc Kenna for further enlightenment.
Murray you are seriously trying to wear the idiot cap! Surprise to me since I associated the Mc Clouds with better things. What the blue blazes has strumming got to do with anything? Heck you could equaly - with more reason in my opinion - say that the pianist on the Coleman and more recent Hunter ( a scot like yourself ) recordings should not have been there.