Dear Jeff

When I was there in the mid-80s, I found a small and crowded but
thoroughly delightful museum of musical instruments. For keyboard people,
its holdings included a particularly interesting square-cased French
Spinet.

The curator, from memory a Herr Dr Ernst, who must have been well into at
least his eighties at the time and so I dare say may no longer with us,
regaled his visitors with multilingual commentary and demonstrations on
the instruments. I recall the enormous amount of effort he took to blow a
crummhorn--he might have expired then...

Safe travels.

CB


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