Stu - "Criticisms and appraisals of your entries at a competition are unlikely to be honest; more likely to be kind. People who run competitions want to encourage entries - kind words and selective praise will do that."...this is another sad case of knocking those you may normally respect in desperation to get at me. And what's your stance on a recorder made in Japan being repeatedly reffered to as an "Engrish frute" (IB)? Would you have ignored it if I had posted it?
Do you try and play each ball on it's merrits?

Pip - who just called me a "dishonest racist"...please answer what I just ased of Stu.

Don - the penny-whistle evolved from the English flageolet in England. And are you sure Japanes people would not be offended by the term "Engrish frute"?

Tim - another who doesn't seem to think "Engrish frute" (as used by IB above) is offensive to Japanese people - what you just posted about me is false and defamatory because there IS a difference between questioning immigration and racism. Racism is where someone attacks or mocks a person or people from a particular culture or race, which is something I have never done.