no offense taken, Murray but my audition was fine, its just that other people I knew also ended up in beginners who didnt belong there. I also knew people in the advanced classes who didnt belong there either. The major problem for the organizers was that over a 100 fiddle players showed up (mostly because they wanted to see Tommy Peoples - who for some reason was unavailable and was replace by Randal Bays (who is also an excellent fiddle player) So they had to divide up the number of players in some way. I expected that each instructor would be able to teach, a little of each (beginner, intermediate, advanced)but thats not what happened - the big names were all the advanced and intermediate classes.