Captain, far be it from me to descend to the depths which this conversation (diatribe?) now seems to have gloriously plumbed(particularly since it seems to have dragged me away from the practice that I have been condemned to in my role, apparently, as a wench ... what ???) ... what guarantee would there be that the instrument you have offered up for consideration (hmmm..I know I'm going to regret injudicious use of the English language there ... but hey!!) is generically English ?????

And Ralphie ... varlet (??) I was never suggesting that you were using an incorrect spelling of the name (though it apparently is) ... merely that when you took the instrument in question up within the mists of unrecorded time, when dragons flew the earth, and an Englishman's home was his castle, that was the way it was spelled, whereas pedants other than myself have now determined that EVERYBODY had it wrong for years. How it's spelled makes no difference to its position in the rankings of instruments of supreme quality and/or Englishness..... OK, I know, back to my practising ......