As a spin-off from this, she has also now gathered together an amazing collection of nearly 200 accordions from all over the world – ones with unusual keyboards, many early ones made of wood and highly decorated with wood, mother or pearl and abalone inlay.

Caroline now travels around Scotland (and beyond) to music festivals with a selection of her accordions. She would like to hear from any festival organisers who would like her to bring along her touring exhibition. A pdf of Caroline's brochure is available here.

Despite this very popular touring exhibition, Caroline feels it is a real pity that she is only ever able to show a fraction of her collection at any one time. One of her major ambitions is to establish a permanent home for her collection — especially as there is no museum in the UK covering this particular subject. If anyone knows of a venue that might be suitable, or can offer her exhibition or storage space for her collection, she would love to hear from you.

The Grantown Museum in Grantown-on-Spey will be hosting an exhibition of 100 of Caroline's accordions from the 2nd May - 14th May 2006.

Link: More information here