Bebop, Lowrey was my first exposure to any type of keyboard. I tried a tiny chord organ and outgrew that in less than a month. I kept trading up in the Lowrey line and finished with a big console organ that came out just before the type you're talking about. I thought the tape addition was a brilliant idea, but the cost was just too high for me. It was a feature I never forgot, and when we moved south, I donated the big console to a church youth group and went looking for something in a keyboard that was somewhat better than a Casio I had bought. My daughter now has the Casio for her kids to bang on, and I discovered the Technics keyboards could do everything but practice scales for me. What fun!

I still remember the old upright piano that wouldn't fit in our small living room when I was a kid. It got a spot outside in the yard,in the weather, and us kids used to play at being piano players. I still do.