Guitarist

My thanks to all who have replied, especially david boveri. It's all fascinating.

Wow!! What will they come up with next!!

Wouldn't an electronic concertina be useful? Then you could start learning without troubling your neighbours with your first, grating efforts!! Is there such a thing?

My enquiry was purely speculative. I just wondered whether different styles and interests would be facilitated by a different button layout. It would be a good idea if all reeds were screw-in and easily interchangeable, I suppose. The more versatile, the better, perhaps.

Can you switch the reeds around in a concertina to obtain a different layout of notes, in the way that guitarists can - and do - alter the tunung on the guitar?