Thanks, Alice, for the refreshment. Now I know I'm not alone, that the whole Mudcat population (except Joe Offe are instrument freaks. A bit of advice from one who knows--stay away from eBay (there's a line for a song--a blues about going broke). In the last month I've added five instruments, two of which haven't arrived, plus an amp that doesn't work. The first two instruments were (are) annoying as hell: tone bank keyboards. The third was a Chromaharp (an autoharp under an assumed name). Due to arrive soon, a banjerine from Michael Holmes with a neck by Fawley (later I may string it with nylon for classical banjo picking, but first I'll tune it to play in E with double C chords). In a week or so I should receive the amp and a mandolin--that's the real adventure; I've never played one). That'll make two banjos (the other a Wildwood Minstrel), four guitars: a Martin D-1, a Baby Taylor, a Celebrity 12-string, and an Epiphone I'll probably sell; a guitalele (a six string ukulele); at least twenty harmonicas, most of them Tombos (Lee Oskars: five Melody Makers, two blues, three natural minors; and five or six double reed Tombo Band 20 hole ones), assorted Hohners and a couple generic; four or five jaw harps, spoons, a tin flute, a recorder, an 1888 pump organ, an antique Irish shepherds horn (my parents at first considered getting me an Irish harp instead but decided it was too hard to carry back); a midi keyboard (for that matter, my computer is an instrument, itself, with ConcertWare software, I can play it either with the keyboard or the pointer), an Oscar Schmidt Appalachian 21 bar autoharp (what an awful design: the shroud is ugly as hell, the chord bars and pads are too narrow. I'm going to check to see if the 15 chord bars from the Chromaharp will fit the Appalachian... There are probably a few dozen I've missed. I try to keep them out of the way, but with a wife and two labradors in a very small house, there's not much room for me. --seed