Musket,
I am afraid I don`t understand your post of 28. Aug 14, 3:12 PM. What is it that you tried to put a value to and how?
In what aspect can a discussion about music by people interested in it but not well known to the public like ourselves can hurt a music?

What have the John-Barleycorn-singing BNP-members to do with beards, sandals and brown rice? Complaining about expensive instruments seems to indicate that in your opinion real folks have to be poor in your view - which looks like a leftis view to me.

And how can someone totally unknown like me "disenfranchise a hell of a lot of bloody good folk music with my pompous pronouncements"?
I can`t prevent anyone to call his music whatever he/she likes to - they are just as entitled to their opinion as I am to mine. That`s what we all have to live with.

I am afraid that your posting might be at least as pompous as mine (looks like we have been successful in driving the OP off ;0)