Send him our collective admiration, Shona, it is a belting tune. I harvested it from that Ian Lowthian, good man himself, who I think robbed it from Blair drekly (as they say in Kernow), I sent it to my mate Carol in West Virginia, and here we are.

Carol, what you write is telling. It is a wide spread of the digits, as the notes after are back down the keyboard. I'm afraid my answer ain't cheap, or disgusting. In short, you need a ladies box! There will be an element of relearning the spaces, but that is really the only way to overcome a diminuitive hand charging about a whopper keyboard.

Sorry to hear about your sticky valves. PM me with stuff about them and I'll see if I can help.

On no account stop playing this tune!

Skipjack