What! ????

There is absolutely no hint of any racism in this thread Diane. If I carried out a survey of Violin players in England, would you say I was automatically discriminating against Italians, because the Violin was invented in Italy, but I was only asking for names of players living in England?

I'm sorry but I don't see any logic in your question, at all!

In future, might I suggest that you please READ the original post CAREFULLY, before going off half-cock!

In that, you will see that there are in fact quite a few English people on the Scottish list.

If you considered this thread to be racist & discriminating against the English, that would be very serious indeed, so why oh why didn't you take the time & make the effort to read the original post, ....... or my second post half way down, where I wrote:

"It doesn't matter to me where a musician just happened to be born.
I'm interested in where they are living now & playing their English Concertinas.
They could be Chinese, Australian or Klingon, it really doesn't matter to me, just so long as they do play the English Concertina & are resident in Scotland or Ireland."

I had to explain myself there too because someone else hadn't bothered to read the original post, either!

Is this a common problem on this site, I wonder, people reading the thread title, but not the actual thread post?

Surely that'd be like skimming through a newspaper & just reading the headlines, but claiming to have read the whole paper, afterwards!

Anyway, I hope this is the last time I have to explain to people what this thread is all about.
I must say, I thought I made it pretty clear in my first post.

Perhaps I should copy my original post & post it after this one, just in case!

Cheers
Dick