Er, not sure I agree with this one... 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard York [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:22 PM
>To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
>Subject: [NSP] Re: Not Choyting - advice please
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>Greetings!
>The celebrated Mr Carthy also said, "The only thing wrong you can do 
>with folk music is not to play it."
>:-)
>
>Richard.
>
>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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