Article: Now that's what the Middle Ages called music; One song 'stayed at number one for almost a century' (a reference to Everything I Do by Bryan Adams?).

Byline: VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH

IN the world of musical instrument retail, there is no more frightening place to be than the section of the store devoted to electronic keyboards. Here, loitering juveniles with baked-bean faces produce neoteric squawks from Yamaha samplers so powerful that they can cause the brain to become thixotropic at a distance of two miles (until the aurally assaulted staff finally unplug the equipment in despair), but things were very different in the music shops of my childhood.

Back then, the only "electronic" keyboard on sale was the Winfield button-chord windblown reed organ ([pounds sterling]12. 13s. 6d), a device that combined the ...

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