Hi everyone My name is Eddy and I am the happy owner of the "Melodina", the square hybrid anglo-concertina made by Stephane Le Lan at Fontenay-le-Comte in western France. I live at 50 km south from Stephane's workshop. I am a guitar/mandolin player for a long time and I have discovered the anglo concertina six years ago. What a cool instrument ! Easy to carry, easy to handle, always in tune, easy to play ... in the row. (far less easy when I began to play in the key of D with my first C/G, in the irish style). I was reading the topic "Converting Duets: Maccann To Hayden?" and ceemonster was talking about a "melody playing" Hayden concertina. That's funny because I was thinking about a "melodic" Hayden concertina for a long time and since this week it's a project in progress with Stephane. So I have signed up to this forum to give my point of view. I call it "melodic Hayden" because I want to play melodies with both hands like an anglo. I don't mind about playing chords while I play melody because I see the concertina more like a solo instrument as the violon, the flute and not like an accordion. And also because I play in a band. This thing will have 34 keys from G3 to D6, almost the range of the fiddle, three rows each side. A kind of anglo-german concertina with the logical and easy wicki-hayden layout. I could tell you more next time after seeing Stephane. Cheers. Eddy