My dad had an Underwood manual typewriter that was very similar to this one.  He taught me how to type when I was very little.  I also took a class in summer school after 8th grade so that I would be able to type the reports that would be required in high school.  We learned on electric typewriters, not manual.  I will never forget typing to music in order to develop a rhythm so that we weren’t just ‘hunting and pecking’.  We typed to the beat of the music …. f f f   space  j j j   space   d d d   space   k k k, etc.   The class started out really well – everyone typing along in time to the music – but then the inevitable would happen.  Some of us would mess up and get out of sync and then the room sounded like a mess of random click click clicks.  We tried our hardest to catch up, but it was almost like the “I Love Lucy” episode with the chocolates coming down the conveyor belt…once you fall behind, you’re done!!  Did anyone else learn to type this way?  Ahhh…fond memories!