Warts and all, I really appreciate the chance to gig with my old B-3. I'm lucky...it "lives" at a local country club, with a 145, 147 RV and a Suitcase Rhodes. I use it for a hard core group of jazz nuts twice a month. Even better, one of the waiters is a pastor/M-100 player. He and his son move the instruments out of storage...even turn them on. I simply show up and play. They even break things down and put them back in the storage area while I head to the next gig. I have an old C-3 that I'm restoring and a little 1949 M that I've got entirely too much money into.

Maintenance is horrible, from a frequency and expense standpoint. But, they're GREAT!

Russ (old school) Lay

[This message has been edited by captain Russ (edited 04-21-2010).]