My instrument: Washburn AB 20 accoustic bass with flameburst design
Other instrument: an old “Ibach” piano from my wife’s mother.
American soldiers in 1945 have already played on that piano.
An aircraft bomb had hit the house of my wife’s grandmother in Hamm, one house wall was missing. American soldiers dragged the piano out onto the street and played some music. Grandmother told them to put it back which they did. Good for them. The women of that family are furies. Just to give an example: To get away, my wife’s grandfather volunteered as soon as WW 2 broke out even though he had already participated in WW I where he had suffered a trauma when he was entombed for three days at Verdun. MIA since WW II. ;.)