At Last - The Beginners' Guide to Music that we've all been waiting for!

Recently I was able to re-establish contact with an old friend from (?) years ago with whom I played in a rock band. Our recent communications have mainly been reminiscences and family history. But yesterday he sent me a small list of explanations of various music genres. That set me thinking and quite quickly I sent him back a short list of explanations and descriptions of musical instruments and musical terms.
Then I got to thinking (that's usually very dangerous). What about all those poor people out there who listen to music - perhaps even like it - but don't understand a thing about its roots, or the instruments which are used?
I set myself the task of explaining to the world all about music. Well, not all - cos I don't know it all. But with all your help we could compile a very comprehensive encyclopaedia of music.
Read what my friend Pete and I have assembled so far and see if you can contribute to this fount of musical knowledge.
All you have to do is to click on the "Comment" button and make a suggestion for inclusion in this great work. All contributions will be considered by me but I reserve the right to include, edit or reject any suggestions.
Please - no downright filth - that's not the spirit of it. But humorous innuendo may be accepted.
Remember the real aim is to enlighten all those out there who want to learn!
I shall endeavour to acknowledge names or pseudonyms of all contributors by listing them here.
So -
Thanks for their contributions go to:
Pete (for inspiring the original idea and contributions)
Ros
Andi
Musicwoman
And I've just been surfing the net for ideas and come up with a site which already has some of the definitions listed in this blog. So acknowledgement must go to Gordon Bathgate, whose site is www.geocities.com/gordonbathgateexperience/gbits.html. He has some other really funny stuff and quotes which are well worthy of looking at and I'm sure he won't mind me giving him a plug.