Vic, I bet you have been playing an air guitar tuned in the conventional EADGBE. There's your big mistake. It seems that a modern folkie can't hold his head up unless he tunes his axe in a "hard-to-do tuning which he made up himself."

 Gosh! Thanks, Leenia - so that is my problem. Right, just wait until I hit the judges next year with my air-12-string. I must think up my own tuning for it. Has anyone got a finger chart for a 12 string tuned to B-U-G-G-E-R?