With all respect to WAV, no one attacks him personally, not do they attack his rather inane reationary opinions; what they attack is the fact that he choses to PUBLISH & PROMOTES them, which makes them FAIR GAME for the sort of fair minded criticisms that invariably attend a WAV thread. That said The re-Imagined Village is a wealth of genuine wondement, but when he's still publishing such drivel as Traditions exist due to folks being impressed by how their forebears did things; and, when people lose their own culture (due to globalisation/Americanisation, etc.), society suffers, plus our world
becomes less-and-less multicultural and There are many different fiddles from many different lands – for example, the Chinese erhu fiddle, the Norwegian hardanger fiddle and, the one most in the West now play, the Italian fiddle/violin. etc. you have to wonder.