I have recently acquired a Turkish tanbur (inconveniently enormous microtonally fretted banjo-like thing), so I've had a rummage round Facebook finding players of that and other Turkish instruments. Many of them belong to discussion groups for political alignments. The big issue in Turkey at the moment is the upcoming constitutional referendum, for which a Yes vote ("evet") would give Erdoğan something like the powers Trump thinks he's got, and a No vote ("hayır") would leave things they way they are. It isn't quite such a drastic polarization between knuckle-dragging atavistic idiocy and common sense as the Brexit/Trump vote, but it's along the same lines.

Correlation: ud (fretless lute) players tend to advocate HAYIR, tanbur players tend to go for EVET. I have been somewhat surprised by how strong and unexpected the opinions are from players whose work I knew quite well. Both instruments are central to the Turkish art music tradition; the main difference is that the tanbur is rarely played by non-Turks, whereas the ud is a major part of Greek, Arabic, Persian, Armenian and Israeli musical life as well. Seems odd that there should be political repercussions to that.

I guess there aren't many Highland or uilleann pipers with St George's Cross flags on their pipe cases. Is there any instrument favoured by Brexiteers? (I doubt if many Trump supporters even know what a trump is).