> 2) What's your most valued collection?
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> For me, it presently seems to be musical instruments (though i do have a drawer of old baseball cards and a stack of comic books, as well as nearly 300 CDs and countless shelves of books).
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> Mi *one Alvarez MD80 guitar, one toy guitar from a Monterrey market shop (it was a gift), one djembe, one C harmonica, one C Irish tin whistle, and one plastic soprano recorder (from my college music education class)* ke

I don't collect anything for the sake of collecting it, and in fact I always have trouble understanding why people would do so, but I have a lot of musical instruments. In ascending order of size: D tin whistle; C tin whistle; plastic recorder; primitive bamboo flute; flute; bagpipe chanter (I couldn't afford the whole bagpipes at the time I was learning); clarsach (small lap harp, medieval style, wire-strung); a good classical guitar; a not-so-good classical guitar; a really horrible guitar I found in the roof of a house I rented once, which I only bothered to keep because hey, free guitar; and of course my pride and joy, my Celtic harp. I also played the mandolin in a string orchestra for a while, but used one of the orchestra's mandolins on loan, and don't have that anymore.

Brunnen-"ought to start practising for the annual upload of Christmas music -- requests will be considered"G