I'm not complaining about how things are now in the Mudcat, re: instrumentalists. A more careful reading of my previous posts to this thread, Joe, will reveal that I was, in fact, saying I like the way things are better in that regard now than the way it was before. I am saying I regard the changes that have embraced instrumentalists to a greater degree than I experienced previously to be positive changes from my perspective.

And on the subject of the accordion, there has been a resurgence of interest and an increase in tolerance of that instrument, even here in the Mudcat. Again, I veiw this as a positive change. Very different from when I first got here.

And this is, at least in part, the basis of my disagreement with the GUEST to whom I was making my remarks in my previous posts. I think the Mudcat is better now, for me, musically, than it was when I first joined.