Well it's probably no secret (to anyone who took interest) that I was a staunch ally of Jim here (though in a few private exchanges with him I did tell him like it is) during the time that he was being harassed by several people here who were far inferior to him in most regards except for one: that Jim struggled to realise that the people taunting him here were people who were simply not worth his time and who he should have shrugged off. Quite simply, he was an amazingly insightful and supremely knowledgeable man who understood traditional music in a way that no-one else here could hope to match. This forum suffered one of its most severe losses when it failed to embrace his superb scholarship. Yeah, he was argumentative, opinionated and stubborn and didn't know when to hold back. But in the world of traditional music he is a mighty man - and we just let him go. Tragic.

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