Beatrice Robertson wrote:

> I have a real personal thing about the fact that mechanical music is
> *not* furniture! It was meant to play music.

I second that motion, emphatically. I know there are good reasons for
working instruments to end up in storage, but in general, long-term
storage of instruments (or treating them as merely furniture) bothers
me a lot.

Preserving these instruments is important, but failing to let others
hear them is criminal.

Bob Fitterman