Good old martin. Even further up in my estimation!
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>From: Ian & Carol Bartlett (home account) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:58 AM
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>Subject: [NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please
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>Hi all
>
>Chris B wrote:-
>Subject: [NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please
>This is probably heresy to some, but I think it's arguable that
>Clough's was only one possible way of playing and the one most
>approved of at the time. there may be more. There is a
>difference between "bad" and "different" isn't there? As between
>"wrong" and "not to my taste" or "not in my tradition".
>
>I'll add a quote from Martin Carthy
>
>"Tradition moves, tradition progresses and is not a pile of
>stones."
>
>Yours in blissful choyting.
> Ian Bartlett
>
>P.S. Any luck in defining a folk instrument yet? Very quiet on
>that front I note.
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