Lovely, Diane!

Actually, Barbara has two reed organs, the portable that I previously described and another larger console that sits in our living room. Looks quite a bit like THIS.

Barbara's quite an accomplished pianist (Bach, Chopin, Debussy) and despite having the two reed organs, we don't have a piano, and she misses having one. I'd love to see her have something like a baby grand, and although we live in a fairly large apartment, unfortunately the rooms are such that we don't really have room for one. I'm encouraging her to look into electronic keyboards (something that can be folded up and put away, sort of like THIS), but she wants one with the standard eighty-eight full-sized keys and one that sounds as much as possible like a piano, without all the expensive features like drum machines and gizmos that make it possible to sound like a kazoo on steroids or Jimi Hendrix's electric guitar on overload, merely at the flip of a switch. Just piano is fine.

Don Firth