Thread: Finger pickers, look here.

Ukelele does nothing for me I'm afraid.

straight guitar is as exciting as watching grass grow I recon

wish he'd move to the guitar

you have to have a sence of humour if you choose the ukulele.. surely!

You're all a bunch of self opinionated stuck up snobbish musical morons! (There, I've said it!) Not that I know anything at all mind you!

Some of the most fantastic music I've heard wasn't played on guitar or ukulele, nor for that matter on instruments that I'd even recognise.

I've seen drums and sticks and tin cans and single string make-shift violins and heaven forbid even the hammond organ played in a way that made me feel happy, or even something else. Have you ever seen James Morrison on the fly sprayer, or Ted Egan playing his Beer Carton?

The instrument doesn't matter at all. How does it make you feel? You don't care for it? Fine. That doesn't mean it wasn't played with joy and passion (and in Jake's case a tad of talent one might add!).

Just cut the "it would be better on..."

Iain you of all people!:eek: , I thought you were above "that awful wailing sliding geetar" stuff (as I am sure did Ry Cooder), I've heard some shockers on classical guitar too, but that doesn't devalue the instrument.

I hope I have the right artist here. I think it is Tommy Emmanuel who won't sign a cheap crappy guitar owned by a young autograph hunter without first playing it. His point? Any instrument can be made to sound fantastic if you know what to do with it.

So cut out the "that instrument is crap" stuff, and recognise that all instruments are crap in the wrong hands (mine!), and anything can be made to sound incredible if just a bit of talent is added.

I own some of the most godawful instruments ever invented (pray that you never hear a banjo mandolin in full flight!) but I am fascinated, even mesmerised at how they sound in the right setting with some talented players!

So there!

P (Friday - between lunches!)