As one of the Duffers here, I'd like to take a moment to say that in a little under two years of being here, I've learned a hell of a lot. It would probably have taken me several years to learn as much in some other context.

I took a look over at rec.music.folk, and while I'm sure it's quite useful for people who are primarily interested in certain kinds of songs, it doesn't seem to have much for instrumentalists like me.

So I would like to take a moment to thank Max and the many people here at Mudcat who have helped me so much over the last couple of years in my efforts to become a better musician and a better accordionist. And also for helping me to expand my musical horizons to include some genres of "folk" music with which I was not previously familiar.