I've sold everything I have to sell. Long story which I will only bore you with a little of. I was destituted in a divorce 10 years ago. I have moved at least eight times since then, each time shedding books and gear and memorabilia. More than I meant to, really. I'm 58 and I have nothing set aside for 'retirement'--which I don't foresee for a long time. My dream is to be stable enough to put some music together, market it on the internet, keep my sanity and make something extra on the side.

I sold my Clavinova to make living expenses while I finished medical transcription school. Turns out that transcription, at least where I'm working, pays only a fraction of what it did 10 years ago. I'm just making expenses and very little more. That will change a little when my fiancee and I are married later this year, but the dough that is freed up is already spoken for. (It's a Dave Ramsey thing.) Even my fiancee is haranguing me (in a totally sweet way) to get rid of stuff. I'm having trouble conveying to her that what I have left is to set up a household and resume something like a normal life when we sell her tiny condo and get a house.

(Well--I do have a pair of RCA BK5-A mics I'd like to sell. I'm afraid to flog 'em on craigslist, though. Too valuable. Any takers?) Don't tell me about ebay. You have to have a track record before you can move something like this and I don't have one.

Eddie, there are two SL-880s available in Atlanta. (Search on studiologic OR fatar.) I was just hoping to find someone with a knowledgeable opinion about the axe before plunking down the last of my limited resources.

I love all the other answers I'm getting, though. Mac, my landlord has an old Kurzweil 88-key jobbie. No GM, lovely sounds. I don't think he'll let go of it, though. I wouldn't mind having his Ibanez five-string bass, either. Mind you, he doesn't actually play the things; he just thinks they look cool . . .

Thanks for everything. Keep those cards and letters coming!

"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."