[Quetscher]

Alan,

you are certainly right when you say that a regular piano isn’t a tenor piano, it is also a bass piano and an alto piano and a soprano piano, and that’s why you can use a piano at each place in a musical context. But this is NOT possible with a Hammond 44 (which, if you want to be exact, is a tenor PLUS an alto melodica). But no other melodica has that range you would need if for example you wanted to play a Bach choral and needed a tenor voice. So compared to all the other melodicas out there you have only ONE instrument that is a REAL tenor (even the Eolina is more of an alto plus soprano melodica, just like the Vibrandoneon).

Pardon my English, I wish I could explain my thoughts better!