Best workshop I ever went to was a Spoons-playing workshop at Gosport Festival. The spoonsplayer was very encouraging & extolling the virtues of this instrument you could keep in your back pocket & take everywhere. His mate who was providing a banjo accompaniment was desperately trying to dis-encourage us by repeatedly telling us how much we would upset the real musicians (I think he was worried about unleashing a horde of clatter-monsters onto the local sessions).
Both very nice blokes, and you could definitely see both points of view. Clang Clang clackety Clang

Kris