And while I'm on about it, I remember seeing Spaw refer to Dennis Brain as a "Hornist" Is a French Horn player in fact a hornist? I think it is a lovely word. FWIW if I played the pipes I would prefer to be a pipist, and why is a fluter a Flautist? Bloody pretentious, if you ask me.

Interesting too that you can be a harpist or a harper (some of the ones I have known were even harpies, but that is anothere story). I think if you are blind, however, you are more or less obliged to be a "harper".

Enough rambling ......

Murray