Hi duellingbouzoulis, I have no problems with your conclusions but don't quite understand how you get there. Pardon my paraphrasing that 'guitar is the only TAB instrument' and 'western style dots are universally exploitable'. In particular I'd suggest that most blues harp is probably learned better from TAB, and at the other end of the continuum the overwhelming majority of millions of players East of Suez have never seen Western notation - nor in many cases can it help them much.

My definition of folk is pretty broad and I'm really pleased that here we have such ready access to 'eastern music'. If I'm being a pedant please forgive me, but more and more Festivals are giving time to cultures other than my family roots - and that's quite fantastic.

Regards, John