Wednesday 15 February 2006

More time-wasting today courtesy of the Bank of Scotland, and the latest chapter in the saga of my attempts to find out how much money is in Concerto Caledonia Limited's account. This morning, Business Telephone Banking (who lost the forms last time round) told me that they'd sent them 'back to the branch', not that it was ever anything to do with the branch in the first place. Now the Bank of Scotland don't let you phone branches directly, so when a childcare window appeared this afternoon I got on my bike and went down there myself. They're nice sympathetic people, but of course they knew nothing about it at all. At least I didn't get caught in the thunder or the hailstorm on my bike.  

Meanwhile ...

... who said 'product placement'?

With thanks to the nice man at Suzuki Europe who got this shipped over for me. Once out of the box, it's really well made and has quite a powerful clean sound, but it takes a lot of puff. I think on balance I probably prefer cheaper instruments with lighter reeds. They're not as loud, but the sound is much more flexible, in that you can play very quietly indeed, and play long phrases without falling over. But the Suzuki does look nice. I'll play it in and see how it goes. But I think Barney the purple Yamaha 'pianica' remains the instrument of choice at the moment. What a shame they don't make them any more.