"Don't run off with the circus."

--LR Mole

*grin*

They probably wouldn't have me. So I guess you're stuck with me.

Alex, I agree with you.

Earl, whereabouts do you live? Where I live, accordions are very much not welcome in folk circles. Paul Oorts, (from Belgium) who plays beautiful European music on his continental chromatic box, comes up here with his wife, Karen Ashbrook, from time to time.

I'm always bugging him to take out his box and play it. Whenever there are other musicians around playing mostly hammered dulcimers, guitars, and mandolins, it's almost impossible to get him to do it. He gets a lot of pressure to play the plucked stringed instrument of his that I can't remember the name of. If he does ever take the box out to play it, he looks pretty sheepish, and he gets some dirty looks from people.

Carol