dont yell at people with cheap instruments

You get yelled at (or more likely just a cold stare) if you make your instrument sound cheap. Cathal doesn't do that and neither do I.

I often get asked what the instrument I'm playing in this picture is. The usual assumption seems to be that it has to be some sort of magical Scottish dance music flute handed to me by a samite-clad white arm emerging from a pool in the Highlands, or at least that I must have paid a lot for it. In fact it's a made-in-Indonesia Yamaha school descant recorder, about 7 quid from any music shop.