I have noticed that keyboards and electric basses are all deployed within this field of "acoustic" music.
   I am in the middle of discussions at the minute about organising a really acoustic festival next year. I wonder if there would be many takers. It would not be a quiet do with lots of people strumming guitars though. It would have samba drum, New Orleans jazz, and many forms of music which have evolved while being played acoustically, and I think it would be interesting for audiences to hear evrything played in thatway.
   In this thread, by the way, I have been trying to discuss the meaning of the word, and how it is used. I have not been making value judgements, I think electric guitars are great. I just think that sometimes there's a time and place for real acoustic music, because there is a special magic when muscians are hearin each other, and the audience is hearing them, without any intermediate activity.
   And I think the word "acoustic" used to mean that kind of music, and it would be nice if it meant that again, so that a poster saying "Acoustic Music" was unambiguous.. But that is a losing battle, I think.