Personally I'd like to see the evidence for the provenance of some of them. I don't actually give a 💩 but there is so much staked on reverence here it is beginning to look like a religion.

Al makes a good point re guitar and I would add that even they seem to be going through the purist mill. I have been told more than once that my carbon fibre guitar has no place in traditional music. Presumably the twats who thought it clever to say it to me would differentiate between playing English folk on a Martin vs an American song on a Fylde. "I would like to sing an Irish song but I can't afford a Lowden." you'd still get someone saying they are only good for Ulster songs.

One of said twats doesn't talk to me now. Probably couldn't distinguish between their insult and my reply with knobs on.

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