>  I was merely warning the original poster that if he
> chose to play a guitar, that some purists would drop on him like a ton of
> bricks for being "unperiod."

I know many good performers who do authentic stuff and don't act like
that; perhaps you should just call these particular ones "rude people"
instead of "purists".

-- gb

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