Guest says, Cecil Sharp decried the bowdlerization of folk music by popular influences to such a degree that he thought that the five-string banjo changed the music by introducing popular elements. Oh dear, I don't think Mr. Sharp would very much like the introduction of electric instruments into folk then, which means I may as well throw out my 5 string Violectra, and my customised Gibson F-5 , Oh and I consider E.Carthy to be far from uneducated