Cas, next time you come to our house, have a play with our collection - it ranges from piano accordions, melodeons, recorders, whistles, mandolin, violins, rackett, bombarde to a dead tortoise on a stick (not my idea - it was a present from some who should know better) and then there's the percussion!

That goes through various stages from spoons to drums to krikrak (thing like dominoes strung together to make a clacking noise), glockenspeil, piano, morris bells and shaky eggplant.

The trick is trying them when there are no Bratlings around to join in - my Bratling tries to play as many at once!

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