Re: Concertinas, for a start!

["B.G.deBoer" <bdeboer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If this is a general history of free reed instruments, including the harmonica,
I would be interested. If it is more specific to accordions, I am still interes-
ted, but I don't know if the harp-l is the right place. Anyone else?

I am _very_ curious to the Chinese/Japanese bamboo mouth organ. Maybe that's why
they still make such fine harmonica's? ;-)
But more seriously: I always wondered if the eastern free reed instruments as 
used in Indian and Pakistani music are copied from western accordions or vice 
versa. Can anybody give me a clue?

Bart de Boer