I've been experimenting with and playing the music for more than forty years now. As I discover this today--even 14 years on from the original thread--I am awestruck at what a bunch of asinine snobs you all are. The man asked an honest question. Comes from a modern tradition of Irish Bouzouki which you clearly didn't and probably still don't understand. And all you could do was belittle him.

Stay stuck in your rut angry old men. People who try new things will continue to change and rule the world.