Mbo,

Of course, you have to understand that I was just making a point about the guitar not having enough punch to dominate melodically in an ensemble situation, particularly for dance music--The "wimpy" was kind of droll, I meant that even in the most subdued dance music, (and you must agree that baroque dances are more subdued than, say clogging, or swing, or any of that more contemporary stuff), the guitar can't really hold the floor for very long--

Of course, when you play electric music, it is all different--the lead guitar can do "everything", and everybody has to bow down--but you aren't really using the instrument to it's full potential, and it is hard to amplify in a way that enhances the great subtlety of timbre and pitch that the guitar affords--

It has occassionally occurred to me that it would be great to get together an acoustic guitar duo and show off all the things you really can do with a guitar--Country, Blues, Blue Grass, Jazz, Rock--the idea being that two guitars can do way more than any other two instruments, including play that driving dance stuff--

The problem has been that even though a two guitars can do that stuff, the guitar players have to be really super--