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Organ trading

We went to the kringloopwinkel this evening to look at a piano, and instead ended up buying an electric organ! Two keyboards, a set of pedals, switches and sliders in brightly-coloured plastic, the works. It arrives on Thursday, I’ll get a photo up once we figure out where it goes.

6 Comments

  1. Tom wrote:

    Wow! That will even enhance the special atmosphere on your boat (I’m thinking of a thunderstorm, the boat rocking and eerie organ music).

    Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 2:54 am | Permalink
  2. tikitu wrote:

    I’ll be buying a cape especially ;-) “I’m having some of my students over for dinner… bwahahaha!”

    Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 1:33 pm | Permalink
  3. S. australis wrote:

    Yum. The description sounds much like the early eighties Hammond my brother picked up for not very much a few years back. The colourful flashing exuberance of the user interface is enhanced by the glorious terminology for the various features: there are switches and sliders labelled “Fascinating Fingers II”, “Note-a-chord”, and “Sound-a-rama” — all, of course, in swooping seventies-style wavy text.

    (I am now contemplating the mental image of Count Dracula on the houseboat in a thunderstorm, cackling evilly while busting out a cheery synth bossa-nova with the Sound-a-Rama slider cranked up to the maximum…)

    Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 1:00 am | Permalink
  4. Yes, well, I didn’t even mention the beatbox now did I? Yes, it’s got one, and about the only thing it seems to be good for it pushing said bossa-nova up to maximum tempo and watching the pulsating temples of the audience…

    I don’t think the labels are quite as glorious on ours, but there are some doozies. When it arrives I’ll make a full report, don’t you worry.

    Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 10:49 am | Permalink
  5. B.B.Leetch wrote:

    I’m say’in it! Wisconsin Grandma would sure like a few weeks on that houseboat and a few hours a day on the electric organ. Good for you!!!!!

    Saturday, February 10, 2007 at 6:14 am | Permalink
  6. tikitu wrote:

    We had a magnificent blat last Saturday, including some organ/cello duets. Wonderful fun!

    Monday, February 19, 2007 at 10:24 am | Permalink