31 May
2009
31 May
'09
8:03 p.m.
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 23:56 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
I own a Hammond M3, and it's for sale.
A year or so
ago my father told me he was driving down
the little road past his house in the forest and saw an
old organ dumped on the side of the road.
"Did you see the brand, Dad?"
"I think it said something like... Hammond..."
Sadly, that's about 20 hours drive from where I live.
Reminds me of a story told by my prof of acoustics
long time ago.
One day he was making an organ recording in some small
village, and saw a Hammond sitting in a dusty corner
of the church.
He asked the local organist about it.
- It's broken, we haven't used it for years.
- What do you want for it ?
- The pastor will be probably be happy if you
take it away.
So next day he returned with a bigger car, and
asked the pastor who was indeed happy to see it
removed. To keep his conscience clean, my prof
donated some symbolical sum to a local charity.
Returned home, replaced a few electrolytics, and
the thing worked again.
This was the same person who hooked me into
Ambisonics, and into computing. These were the
TRS-80 days.
Ciao,