...on a BBC programme a couple of years ago, where historians were trying to farm the 17th-century way, an expert period-musician visited with, among other instruments, a 5 times 2 course English cittern - plucked with a feather plectrum.
And when I listen to experts in classical music talking about the Romantic composers, they often say that when such composers wished to give a nod to nationalism they often turned to national/regional/local, folk music.
And, yes, I do keep learnig, IB - but, given your last remark, should add that I did get distinctions during my anthropolgoy major, etc....I'm not the one deluding himself or trying to delude others.