Well that was a wasted day (almost)
I drove about 160 miles to find that the full-size console organ I was promised was, in fact, a very small OSO (Organ Shaped Object) commonly known as a Granny Organ.
In my initial emails, I had specifically pointed out the difference between the two -- what I was looking for would have had 27 or 32 foot pedals running along the entire bottom of the console and they would extend several feet out. What I was not looking for was 12 or 13 little stick pedals on the left side of the console extending out about one foot.
In the return email, I was assured that it was the full pedalboard and when I met up with the guy, this was not the case.
These OSOs are called Granny Organs because this is what the oleaginous piano store sales people (Think used car salesmen are bad? Check out a piano store sometime -- not a general music store, a piano store) will sell to grandkids for grandma to have some fun in her life. They are seriously overpriced, loaded with musically useless "features" and let Granny get her crunk wigger groove on while she rocks out to
ice ice baby.
No word if it works or not -- if it does, I will clean it up a bit and see if any of the local churches or our local town hall wants it. Otherwise, I will part it out -- Wurlitzer used good quality components so the reverb tank is probably worth nicking and there are a lot of DIY synthesizer builders who could use the keyboards.
The roll-top case is really nice and will make a good computer desk or bar...
Did some other shopping -- buying five or six LED flood lamps from Costco each month and gradually retrofitting the house. The light is really nice -- much better than even modern CFLs.
Posted by DaveH at January 2, 2012 9:42 PM