It might have something to do with what I call "the gadget syndrome".

For example, beginning photographers (and some not so "beginning") tend to think that they need fancy camera equipment, and eagerly trade up or buy new camera gadgets. But GOOD photographers can make marvelous pictures with what are pretty much crap cameras. Good photographs, they realize, are taken with the mind.

The same holds true with lots of musicians, who think that if they just had that pre-war Gibson banjo, say, they'd be in fat city musically, but they don't sound like they want to because all they have is an el cheapo oriental express, like so many others have.

Now, EVERYbody's got a voice, right? Little kids sing in kindergarten, fer Crissake! An instrument would be SO much more cool! Then I could wow everybody!

Dave Oesterreich