Re: It's going to be a Happy New Year

[Ken Hall <hallk@post.queensu.ca>]

At 07:11 PM 12/30/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Fellow Hammond Addicts,
>
>At a Christmas party sponsored by one of my computer customers I was showing 
>pictures of the B3 used at the Hammond Workshop and asking folks if they knew 
>anyone who had something like it.
>
>As it happened, I showed them to a guy who said (I'll never forget his words) 
>"I've got one of those damn things in my living room and big box in the
hallway 
>that I've been walking around for 10 years".
>
>The organ actually belongs to his wife, but she never learned to play and
hasn't 
>used it in years.  In fact, they can not find the power and Leslie cables for 
>them!
>
>Not sure if I was going to find a BV/B2/BCV or an A, I took some cables to
their 
>house and found a 1971 B3 buried beneath glass "collectable" thingys and at
the 
>far end of a hallway (surrounded by three bedroom doors) a Leslie 122, both
with 
>living room quality finishes.
>
>The organ had not been oiled since purchased (1985) and the start motor
could not 
>pull the generator through.  I was told it hadn't been turned on for four
years, 
>and only rarely before then.
>
>The gentleman and his wife have decided to part with the organ.  Knowing I
ran the 
>computer system for the company, they asked for a computer in an even trade.
>
>So, don't give up your quests for the sacred B3/122 combination.  They are out 
>there being used as display tables, owned by people who don't play them and
really 
>don't want them, but don't know how to get rid of them.
>--
>
>                        "You meet the nicest people on a Hammond"
>
>RickP@Tyrell.Net        Novell Network Consultant          
>www.tyrell.net/~rickp
>Rick Prevallet         Hammond Organ Player and Fixer            CV/25  CV/QR40
>C3/122/147       Beech 58 Baron Charter Pilot & CFII/MEI         A100  C3/TBA
>
>
>Well, you certainly got me drooling. I guess I will keep looking.  Seems
like every time I try to extract my BC from the studio, another project
comes up.  I guess I'll have to expand my collection.... Sigh.... Happy New
Year!!!
Ken Hall 
V3/JV880/147/VK1000/MicroB/BC/122