Tootler,

You've misunderstood. I don't consider ukulele to be a proper instrument when played by fat people. Highly improper.

Steve Shaw,
I don't know if your comment is directed at me, but if so, please re-read the OP.

Maybe you can help me figure out what the idea behind it is. Something about the importance and significance of using a guitar, and how important instruments are and how their use should not be discouraged. All of which sounds like a non sequitur to me—unless it is in reference to a discussion elsewhere. (Which is why I asked.) Potentially fascinating topic, but unclear to me.

In essence: just what was the importance and significance of Guthrie's use of guitar?—that is, aside from what I think (as I commented) was the influence of his use of guitar in shaping subsequent perceptions of what entails folk music and of the intellectual depth of performers who play it.