The Yorkshire Tornado is into several kinds of music I'm not — opera, show tunes, Beach Boys, Beatles and various kinds of Latin. I can tolerate all in small doses except opera and the Beatles, so she must plays those when I'm not around. I love blues, which she can take only in small doses, so I return the favor.

We're extremely lucky, however, that we both like most other genres of folk music, we tend to like the same classical composers — she's a little higher on Elgar than I am — and our travelling music is likely to be Ray Stevens, Ravi Shankar, Ian Tyson and the first 10 years of rock'n'roll. We also both like bagpipes and "Celtic" (both in fairly small doses).

All in all, it works out pretty well.

david