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.
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Wow! That will even enhance the special atmosphere on your boat (I’m thinking of a thunderstorm, the boat rocking and eerie organ music).
I’ll be buying a cape especially ;-) “I’m having some of my students over for dinner… bwahahaha!”
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…)
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.
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!!!!!
We had a magnificent blat last Saturday, including some organ/cello duets. Wonderful fun!