"do you have the pipe in your left hand/tabor-stick in right?" (me)

"Pipe in the left, with the drum (currently a smallish Turkish dumbek tuned to A, the pipe being one in G by the late Bernard Overton) played with the fingers of my right hand. When I stand to play (storytelling al fresco) I use a still smaller dumbek struck with a bodhran beater made by Harvey of Tyneside back in 1982 (whatever happened to Harvey? He was always around The Bridge and the Irish Centre - excellent beaters!). In either case I use a string of Nepalese ankle bells such as occasionally turn up in Knock on Wood in Leeds from time to time. Worth a look is Knock on Wood, caters for all the diverse ethnic communities so you find all sorts of weird and wonderful things in there, though perhaps not quite so many as when it was in the Dark Arches in the days when the Dark Arches was a lace of genuine wonderment! It (Knock on Wood) still remains the vibrant heart of a truly multi-cultural community." (IB)...you don't worry that, if everyone fused musics to the extent that you do, the world would be less diverse and interesting..?