Considering their variegated origins, not to mention all the cultures and circumstances in which these instruments are played, a person who persists in referring to a violin as an "Italian fiddle" and a tenor recorder as an "English flute" is either grossly ill-informed or downright dim-witted. It also indicates a mind that can't handle multiple concepts without a whole wall of arbitrary pigeon holes in which to keep old ideas and to place any new ideas that come along, whether they fit in any of them or not. If you have misfiled a lot of things, which you most certainly have, David, the whole system breaks down.

Time to clear the slate, dump the rubbish out of the pigeon holes, and do a serious re-think.

Don Firth

P. S. By the way, do you ever read anything other than your own writings? I think you have what computer engineers refer to as a "feedback loop" there, in which the same data keeps recycling. It's also one of those things that they refer to generally as a "glitch." And then, of course, there is the acronym "GIGO:    "Garbage In, Garbage Out."