I mix in many circles. Some are receptive to music and others are definitely not. I have the misfortune to be an accordianist and I live through all the "stuff" that comes with that. One "mate" told me that I am not a gentleman because a gentleman knows how to play an accordian but does not do so. On the musical side of things, I am part of a group of four die hards who get together semiregularly for a session of tunes and songs. I play the squeezebox, Phil plays the guitar, Ian plays the guitar and mandolin and McPiper plays the fiddle, elbow pipes (Northumbrian breed), whistle, banjo and guitar. He plays all these just to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Incidentally, Ian's mandolin was made by his father who happens to be a boatbuilder turned instrument maker and the underside of the mandolin is the smallest clinker built dinghy you have ever seen. These interesting little things improve the quality of my life immensely. Cheers Pukuhipi