Blandiver. "The interest is in Human Music whatever the county of origin......."

You sure could sing that if you had an air to it. As a matter of fact I've been singing it for the past forty odd years, ever since I was first blown away by hearing ethnic music (as it was called then).

No I'll not deny the right of anyone to listen wholly or exclusively to whatever style of music they happen to prefer, although I do wish some of them would take the blinkers off. But I will continue to celebrate the samenesses and differences which are such an inherent part of human musical culture. And I'll continue to remember that that Mongolian bloke pounding away so gloriously on his Mongolian zither, is a fellow human being, moved by the self same feelings and foibles and sentiments and emotions that we all possess because we are all members of the one human race.

And if there's a better argument than that for international fraternity and world peace, I'd like to know what it is.

"Hath not the human race eyes? Hath not the human race hands, organs,dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer...............?" With apologies to Shakespeare.