Does Steve's family know that he is so charming and thoughtful on this, a more or less public website? Do the people who go to "his" session know and are they pleased to be associated with his opinions and the way in which he so thoughtfully expresses them?

Thousands of tunes have survived the last 1, 2 , 3 or 4 hundred years. Most I guess have been used for social dancing. The bands and the instruments played in them have no doubt changed over that period. Squeezers and steel strings are a product of the industrial revolution. So what are we, who enjoy playing the tunes to do? Anything we like. That is more or less what people have always done. Have people who played for dancing over hundreds of years used percussion?

Some of us gather in public and play not for dancing but in "Sessions". Often the tunes are played too fast for dancing sometimes on instruments invented 200 years after the tunes were composed. Sometimes those in the sessions are friendly and welcoming in and sometimes they seem to have trouble speaking at all.

Best wishes

L in C#
Down The Beech Wednesday M21 9EG
Songs this week, tunes next week, dots on the table, steady pace.