SHAKEY EGG. Brilliantly observed.

I once saw a spoons player arrive with 9 pairs of said cutlery and lay them out on't table. 'Raaght need me jig spuns, lads.'- Remarkable.

Personally I wish everyone who played the guitar was forced to listen to Jon Williams and Davey Graham to see what a proper noise sounds like. Bob Dillon has a lot to answer for, I suppose he does sound great when your discernment is obliterated by cheap scotch and weak ganja. Ahh the sixties.

I vote for the duplicitous piano because it sounds lovely when you're on your own just making nice chords up with the lid open. But when its played most players are completely a-rythmic and stunted or over embellishing to make up for their internal agony that it sounds c**p, really. An instrument ideally suited to Georgian drawing rooms. Nuff said.

Incidentally, I HATED the Scots war-pipes until I heard a Nova Scotian living in France, play them in a session at Edinburgh - I suppose there MAY be a good pianist out there... Oh yes! Paidraic O Reilly from Corofin, Co. Clare.