The playing of the merry organ...

   Recently, Kim decided that it would be nice to replace our old church-type organ with a more modern and lighter electronic piano which would be easier to play and take up less room in our increasingly cluttered lounge. At first, her research on the Net, principally on Le Bon Coin, led her to a very posh machine in La Rochelle. We had almost closed the sale when two  things gave us pause. The first was the seller saying the foot pedal was at her mother`s house, could it be posted on later. This we did not want to get involved with. the other was a wise suggestion from our friend Christine that an instrument like her own Yamaha keyboard would perhaps be more amusing for Kim to play, offering more facilities than a straight piano.  We had a look at Christine`s keyboard and Kim agreed that it would be just the thing. Back to Le Bon Coin and Kim narrowed down her search to a keyboard in Poitiers which looked promising.A call to the vendor on Friday evening with a view to a visit the next day took a surprising turn. About to give us directions he asked which road we would be approaching Poitiers on, the N10 was the reply. Oh, where are you coming from? Near Loubillé, Chef Boutonne. Oh! was the surprised reply, The board is currently at my father`s house in Couture d`Argenson, do you know it? As it is almost the next village, it would be strange if we didn`t, we can be there in ten minutes! It turned out he was a student at Poitiers and had a flat there.
  Then it was just a case of turning the gas off under the tea and going to see the Yamaha. It turned out to be just what we wanted so we closed the bargain on the spot and carried it home in triumph. As Kim said, it would have been churlish to turn down such a case of being `led` into buying this item, to say nothing of saving over 100Eur from the price of the La Rochelle piano plus the time and money to go to Poitiers! The keyboard sounds great though Kim is a bit daunted at the knobs and buttons, it will take her a while to learn to fly it!

  Buy for now, Tea time!