Yes, I agree with all that; there is a lot of prejudice against certain instruments, but I reckon that’s because they haven’t actually heard them played well, and dare I say, played properly. For example, the ukelele has an attractive sound, as featured in TV soundtracks a lot recently, but few people bother to learn to play it properly to my mind, and bands of massed ukes all struggling to keep together do the instrument a great disservice.