nah that's not the answer GSS. you have to move with the punches, or whatever the expression is.

I have always been a fingerpicker -so I had to met this problem head on thirty years ago - when I twigged the folk music scene was on its last gasp for pro musicians. sadly I don't think running university courses to produce young musos who want eight hundred quid a night to play has done much to help things. except perhaps produce - yet another layer of society that pontificates about folk music without involving the British folk.

I played telecasters and a Rickenbacker - oh yeh -and a Gibson Chet Atkins. nowadays if I were doing pub lounges - i'd use a variax. dadgad at the press of button.

it changes the music - but hey - things change!