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Thread #115852 Message #2484702
Posted By: Jack Campin
04-Nov-08 - 01:51 PM
Thread Name: Preference or Snobbish?
Subject: RE: Preference or Snobbish?
So it seems that Alan it doing something like the Planet Squeezebox project, and that completely changes the way we have to interpret his questions.
If the point of the project is to document the way the concertina is played in various parts of the world, then NO WAY is a German or Australian player of Irish music in a position to play for Ireland. Whereas an Irish player whose repertoire is mainly Scottish or English would be. An Irish player who had emigrated to the US after more or less freezing their style and repertoire could be put in either the American or Irish bag.
Starting out from what promises to be something like weelitledrummer's "nobody likes me, everybody hates me, think I'll go and eat worms" position is not a good way to be taken seriously.