English concertina, Wheatstone model E2. I spent more than a year haunting every music shop and hock shop I saw. When I came to Bronen's in the Bronx, I walked in and saw a collection of the usual mother of toilet seat anglo's but asked anyway. the clerk brought out what is now my concertina, Virginia. I tried her and found everything to be in good working order. They asked $250 and I put down a deposit, saying I would be back the next day. [This before everyone had 3 or 4 credit cards.]

When I came back, the shop owner asked me to take $250 on top of my deposit. I refused and stuck to the deal because I could not afford what he really wanted.

I have tried many other instruments [and even owned 2 others] but have always come back to Virginia.

In addition, I play the kazoo [So many songs seem to demand it!] and am learning the full sized xylophone that I found in a dumpster. I may even bring it out in public in the next year or two.