Here's a puzzler... What if someone is musically talented but has never picked up a guitar or sat at a keyboard/drumkit or whatever. Actually, scratch that, remove 'drumkit' from the last sentence as everyone knows drummers are unmusical and/or retarded... ANYHOO - My point here being that they may DISCOVER a knack for making music by being exposed to digital methods of doing so - the fact that they can't play guitar in the 1st place doesn't NECCESARILY mean they're not 'cut out' for making "music".

I don't like it when musicality is implied in music, as in 'you're not clever enough to understand whats happening in that track'. Basically, something either works or fails and no amount of anally retentive self belief will change that fact. There should be no real need to go on about the fact that you're an amazing 'musician' or competent at this or that instrument when, in basic fact, the music you're showcasing demonstrates none of this supposed 'skill'.

My point, also, is that many people claim to play this and that instrument but how many of these folks have ever had an official release that is not just plain old techno ? Hmmmm.

Ultimately, unless it's obvious in the music, there's no real reason to bolster your releases with claims that really don't relate to the end output aside from the shamelessly self serving pursuit of 'feeling smug about onesself' ;-)