Joe, I must admit to a blind spot as far as Chinese and Japanese classical music is concerned. But have you listened to any of the music of south east Asia, Bali, Java, Laos etc? Wonderful stuff.

BTW. Mosques. My local council is currently closing half its libraries, and many of its other leisure services buildings. Naturally, a lot of us have become involved in the fight to keep them open. One particulerly fine building however has become the scene of opposition from a different section of the community, because of sumours that a mosque is scheduled to be built on its site. If the daft sods had bothered to check the facts they would have found that particular building is not down for closure for another five years.