I once in awhile accompany myself with bodhran but on the whole it's most always been just voice, it's so easy to cart around with you, I never have to go out & buy new teeth when the old ones get worn down or stop mid song to tune up or down the vocal cords & I never get threats like "if he doesn't stop I'll break his mouth" or "I'll kill his throat" where as I'd sometimes get "will someone break his hand or his arm, that'll get 'em to stop". You can disguise yourself in public & getaway with murder will carrying around an instrument case is a dead giveaway & your bound to get caught & blamed for anything. Terrorists can't use your own voice against you like they could an instrument, like hang you by your own guitar string or beat you about the head with your own banjo or poke you with your own whistle or worst play your concertina in your own ear while tied & gaged & you with no means of escape. You'll never go hungry while there's a song in your heart, for example try to call a pig with a harp or get a sheep to come via bones playing or even convince a goat to give milk by gently beating a bodhran, animals I known aren't all that fond of musical instruments but they do like a song. Ever see a whale or a porpoise or even a bird for that matter playing something, ah, but a song. Never heard of a body haul up a sail with a flute or cut down a tree with a mandola or lay track with a uke or row with spoons or cure cloth with a jews harp ( course I've never seen sick cloth either). Try singing under water, now try playing there or try to sing while your trying to fly, or fall, now try playing. Can you blow a harmonica while skating or play an E string on the fiddle while jumping fences. Ok, so what's more natural? Barry who'sduckingallthoseflyinginstruments