Hairy potter here too. (thought about changing my mudcat name to "Erie Potter" as I once lived in Buffalo).

Interesting aside (as relates the earlier obsevation that many do both). I was recently at the Winterfair Craft Show in Columbus Ohio. I regularly take my guitar and mandolin because I found out a few years ago that four other potters in addition to myself also played the guitar. We would regularly get together before the show began and try to find some common ground to play afew tunes together.

This year as I was headed off to find my guitar playin' buds, I came across a foursome (guitar, whistle, fiddle, and mandolin) that were just sitting down to play together. I sheepishly asked if I might sit in and the little gathering turned into a four day jam (at the beginning of the show each day).

As the circle grew to many more musicians -- a jazz/dixieland clarinet, four more guitars, a dulcimer (great musician by the way), someone commented after looking around the circle "how many of you are potters?!". The great majority were.

Here's some photos of the event. The mando and guitar case in the opening photo are mine and I'm the guitarist over whose shoulder you look in two of the photos.