Long live the accordionists! I'm not one personally, but I have aspirations,hehehe... I sing my own songs though! Does that count? Try having people in a very snobbish wind band laughing at you for saying you prefer Irish flute to concert flute. And the looks of disgust I get in even more snobby orchestra meetings for saying I don't play violin, I play fiddle are actually quite amusing. I like the 'unpopular' instruments. They give folk a distinctive folk sound, rather than classically trained people playing something collected by Percy Grainger.

Ruthie