hetty
melodian player of some thirty years standing living in Gloucestershire where I run a barn dance/ceilidh band with my wife and old friend who is a Scotsman heavily into Irish music.
Started playing for Morris dancing then English dance music with a few Irish tunes in the repertoire but over the last 10 years the Irish content and influence has grown. My daughter has stopped dancing Irish because of her knees and no longer rides a Conemarra pony ( called Guiness) but now has an Irish sports horse called Donald and delights in telling people that Michael McGoldrick is her favourite musician.
Although play D/G box mainly I now have a de-clubbed Hohner with 4 extra buttons giving me useful accidentals; a Hohner C/C# and a Paolo Soprani B/C/C#. Something to get my teeth into in 'me old age'.
Tunes in hetty's tunebook: 1