Greg,

Thanks for your comments about the Celts and bagpipes and Chinese and pentatonic music.

That website I provided a link to might indeed be guilty of sloppy thinking.

And I'm sure that I am guilty of sloppy thinking sometimes too. That being said, I don't consider myself an ethnomusicologist-amateur or otherwise.

I would also mention that I put more credence in the books that I have read which is why I shared some titles.

I appreciate it when other posters share information that corrects [or suggest corrections] to material I have posted.

That way I learn and others do too.

And with regard to the English inventing blues because the Rolling Stones played blues, I'm sure that you'll find some people who believe that. Not me, though.

;o}