Diane cum Cupid and Woody - I "do ra me..." sometimes but prefer to work at my intonation by "playing a line, singing a line" as that aids with memory as well. And I love the timbre of the English concertina.

Don and IB - you've again distorted what I've said, as you both distorted "Engrish frute" when describing a recorder made in Japan. (But your second post, IB, is fair enough.) And, Don, to use a cricket/baseball analogy, I'd like to think I do play each ball on it's merits and have given credit where due – even when someone has been extremely nasty elsewhere.

Smokey Stu- I genuinely didn't know, e.g., the answer to England's Nat. Mus. Inst.

"He publishes before he is ready" (Stu)...before I sat down to write, I stood to find my way through about 40 countries on a shoestring, and achieve some 4 tech. certificates and a degree in humanities.

Peregrina - some countyism fits okay within my kind of nationalism...

Poem 84 of 230: NATIONALISM WITHOUT CONQUEST

Everything in moderation?
    Well...with "nationalism" it's true:
It can carry unique cultures on,
    But, overdosed, cause their conquest, too.

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