it's an old yas-61! assuming the serials are just purely sequential, it's one of the first couple thousand ever made!

yup, my parents' basement was the same way when I helped clean that out a few years ago. (my dad was a bit of a hoarder, too!) I think everyone's made their peace with the (grand)kids thing already so for me I was just happy to let everything go to homes that could use them. it feels good to let go!

really wonderful write-up, and gives me a lot to chew on in the same vein as what's already been on my mind. thanks for sharing. I hope you continue to find a healthy balance between the steady paycheck and the space to be creative.

you articulate a lot of important points about how to handle what ultimately feels like a broken field to get into "for work". I've been thinking a lot too about the un-viability of freelance composing as financial stability, and how frustratingly non-linear the path towards stable career really is.