Yo, listen MTed! That kind of talk is exactly the kind of stuff the pianists have been dumping on us for the last 400 years! Who cares about bleedin' dancing? There's more to life than that! Regular ol' acoustic guitars take over the moronic job of play rhythms suitable for dancing. Classical guitarists is a higher calling, people like me who play CG have a higher demand for melodic beauty, ornamentation, harmony, and texture. Who really listens to dance music anyway? It's usually mundane because everone's too interested in flapping their legs to care about the music. Classical guitar is something to be studied and to be listened to intently. Hearing you talk like that about my guitar playing almost invalidates my years of study to create beautiful music. If I wanted to make people dance, I could have been like any other mook and learn three chords and not be very good at it. And also, the history of music for the classical guitar, lute, and vilhuela is rich and gorgeous. If all you think of Classical guitar is a "wimpy Baroque dance," I'll be glad to strap to down in a chair and force you to listen to Villa-Lobos' Choroses and Etudes from a guitarist 1 foot away. That stuff is so loud, you can hear it across a concert hall without amplification! As for not being able to hold our notes, I think it is one of the greatest things about guitars! If you want sustained notes, go play the trombone. If you want everything in one small wooden package, play a guitar. Beethoven himself said about the guitar "It's like a whole orchestra all in one instrument". And speaking of breaking guitars over people's heads...

--Mbo (a lover of ALL guitar music and proud of it!!)