i'm getting a little worried about my frend, 'no c.p. trad. muso/siner'

i wonder if he's getting a bit deaf & doesn't notice he's out of tune with everyone else.

i've spoke to his parnter about this, she's not sur, as she relies on him to tune her mandolin.

but she's peformed v. well recently at 'mr happy's' using a borowed guitar & sung brill!


me & 'Menage', one of the goups i'm in, went to a Bluegass sesh last week & although bluegrass isn't our usual thing it was a good sesh + included some gentle 'old tine' singing.

About 20 to 11pm, the 'traditional non-tuning' person came in.

we hadn't seen or heard him sing or play for ages & the last couple of times, [during the xmas/new year break] had made the effort to be in concert pith.[which showed he was aware that some discord in sesshes in both pubic & private partes]

Well, what a suprise!- he still wasn't in tune, but belted out some blues nos.   

we didn't express any disfavour towards him this time tho', cos we all concluded amongst ourselves that his preference must be to be slol & not have others joining in.

we'd been to this same venue last spring/summer & there'd been a lot of novice/beginner instrumementalists participants not in tune- other than being in tune with themselves- but this tine, all were in c.p. -the leaning curve!!

we knew 'trad. non tuned musician' attended this sesh a lot & now understood why. if other novice players thought his was the 'right way' of going along, then they would've been retarded by his continual insistence of not being in c.p.

but lucky for them, there'd been some other muso/siners from the other N. welsh seshes attending + other blugras muso's from chester to point 'em in the preferred direction- giving hints & tips etc.

in other respects, i like my fiend who's been a realk good buddy in the paste.

Anyone have any thoughts on hearing deficits being the problem + a reluctance to own up to this?