On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:35:59PM -0700, Norval Watson wrote: > 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, -- FA Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia è troppo stretta e lunga. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
