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The old recorder, A piano brand G.Klingmann & Co, Berlin, about 1900 A klarinet from around 1800 or shortly after, at least before 1830, with 6 valves, color light brown. A broken Stradivarius violin, build in 1734 according to the label, but experts say its a fraud, maybe they are right. It was broken anyway. The last two I discovered on the attic of my grandmother's home, when I was a child. A Napoli accordeon Further more I sometimes play at a piano build by Alexander Bataille, eleve d'Erard 1880 or a Canadian harmonium, (a small house-organ) brand 'Bell' with "Mouse-proof-pedal" (with that text engraved in the pedals), Most times I played on our beautiful Rippen piano, but now much more on the last, recently acquired: a 1926 Gotrian-Steinweg grandpiano. Then near the pc a cheap keyboard, for printing music through the pc.
But after all: the best instument is the voice.
And I was here!( in the chorus, when I was student):