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How about sub-dividing the player's skills:
1. Non-physical musicality: sensitive timing and rhythm, good accompanying styles, good and innovative ideas in improvising. Good listening skills and ability to complement the song.
2. Physical musicality: firmly depressed notes and secure bends, good left-right hand coordination, speed adequate to the task, nuances in timing, attack and other articulation, broad expressive vocabulary of fretting and picking techniques.
3. Musicality in using guitars, amps, and accessories. Knowing which strings are best for the task, knowing which pickup to use for a honky-tonk rhythm accompaniment played with a muted palm through a tweed deluxe with 2 10" speakers. Being adaptable if the speakers are replaced by 1 15" speaker. (This last part attempts to explain why a certain player sounds the same on any equipment--it is because he know how to adapt hand technique and guitar controls when using a non-preferred amp.
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larry
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