<HTML>In a message dated 8/13/01 6:54:21 AM Central Daylight Time, tito@PhilBondi.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">A friend has shown me something I have never seen nor heard of..A Piano that is also an organ..made by Jannsen..it's a full 88 note piano with organ stops and the electronics are secured to the fallboard. I wish I could have heard it, but I think that may be a good improbablility..why? The piano is being 'stored' outside and it has to go up 2 flights of stairs..there's already evidence of rusted wire and keys that go down and don't come back. </BLOCKQUOTE> I have seen two of these things. The organ didn't work because the tubes are blown. And they don't make tubes any more. Back in the late 50's or early 60's, when my dad first got started in the business, Thomas Organ Co., I think in cooperation with the Starck Piano company, made a piano/organ combination. The thing looked like a two manual organ, except that the top manual was the organ, and the bottom was an 88 note piano. The problem with the thing was tuning. The engineers who designed the thing put the organ tubes and wires, etc., in the way of the tuning pins. The only way to tune the piano was to remove the organ keyboard completely. One had to almost be an organ technician to do that job. Obviously the instrument was not a big success. Wim </HTML>