Just replying to GfS on 3rd March (I have limited access to computers, hence the delay).
I would take issue with the contention that everything I ever heard or performed involved electronics. I suppose I must have been vaguely aware of music on the radio from an early age, but my earliest recollections of music, are of my mother playing the piano, and occasionally trying to pick out tunes on the mandoline, and of my grandad playing the flute and melodeon. No microphones. And later, of the piano in school, and the organ and what passed for a choir in church. I've been playing music in public - folk music and early music, for forty seven years. Most of it un-amplified. I do not own an electronic instrument - and I own a lot of instruments. Then there have been orchestral concerts, brass band concerts,...well, you get the picture. Of course, I have records and CDs, and I was into Rock and Roll and 60s pop. My comment about the electronics was about purely electronic sounds, not electronically amplified, or even electronically modified sounds. Sounds you couldn't make any other way. And I suspect that people who had their heads full of those sounds would find the sounds made by 'natural' instruments a bit odd, or just uninteresting. Can't say I'd agree with them.
John Kelly.