Tom Ivey and I visited Bob and his wife Meri in their house in Golden, Colorado, more than ten years ago. I was stunned. At that time, Bob owned in the neighborhood of 100 instruments of all kinds, and kept many of them in a humidified room. I had to keep my jaw from dropping during the whole hour or so that Tom and I were there. Oh, yeah--Meri served us freshly made pumpkin pie. I have always found them to be warm, friendly folk, and Bob's musical dexterity is stunning. He used to (maybe still does) a gig as Bob O'Looney's One-Man Band. I won't even try to detail it, other than to say that he parades around with a fairly large number of instruments, playing several of them at the same time.