Patty, I have a confession...

I decided I wanted more information, so I eBay-wrote the following questions:

How about a pic of the keyboard? How many pipes in each rank? Total? None of the ranks are reeds, are they? Thanks, Richard

I got a response that night from Ralph Kreuger:

Good questions, not so good answers. I can peek in between the display pipes, the chest is full, don't see any reeds, don't see a lot of anything else but pipe tops. Total number??? I did not get to open the case up, the church folks are a little touchy about tampering with their baby. The key desk I did not get a photo of, didn't think of it until I got home. It is a reverse color, dark brown naturals / light brown sharps. I am not much help in your questions. Thanks. Ralph K.

I looked at my options: Get the money together, from where. I had to tell Patty. I went upstairs: “Patty I have bad news… What is it?... I think there is an organ on eBay we could buy… We have the money. Problem is that it is in upper NY State. We’d have to fly there, rent a truck, take it apart, load it up, drive it back here and reassemble it.” I quickly did the math in my head…about another $3000-$4000. Hmmmmmm. Well it was a nice thought. Let’s both sleep on it. Patty looked resigned already.