 I had always thought until a few years back that he took up the piano after initially learning how to play the cello, the bass, because of the liner notes that he wrote to one of his albums, A Dry Martini Please. He wrote there that he took up the piano because it had become clear to him that it was so difficult to transport the cello on the Minneapolis bus system. I remember thinking, well, you know, it's probably harder to transport a piano, but