On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:56:47PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > 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. And here is a link to yours truly, fondling a real B3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Hn57auWxE Clearly visible in the video is.... an emacs buffer with the setlist and changes. This is the first time I've ever played this song; they showed me the changes during soundcheck. So I didn't get it exactly right, but man, was that fun! -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
