Well, Andy, it's true: they all drive too fast and the kids are all
playing video games or watching TV.  Driving through a suburb, the only
light the houses emit is gray-blue.  Adds a new turn to the old saw
"the lights are on, but nobody's home."

But as a kid fifty years ago, I was different. I played paper, while
all my friends played 45's.  I still play paper, even though the latest
thing seems to be to hook the Duo-Art up to some kind of computer
gizmo.  But I still play paper, because I like to see a measure of
music before it happens.  I like my Duo-Arts partly because, after
fifty years, my eyes can see what the pianist is about to do.  Now and
then I put my feet on the pedals (two of my four Duo-Arts are pedal
electrics) and play it my way.

I'm just in the final phases on completing the biggest project I ever
started: putting the parts back in a 9' 6" Steinway Duo-Art.  It got
"modernized" in the 1930s by a God-fearing evangelical church.  I'll
play paper till the day I die.

There is one good thing about being behind the times.  The price of
used rolls will soon follow piano values into the basement.  That's OK
by me, because I'm used to being behind the times and playing paper.

Bruce Grimes