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iLaw

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  1. High school playing in a rock band at an animal club, using a B3 with two Leslies stacked. A drunk walked up to the stage, took a look at the stacked Leslies with their horns spinning (I played with the backs forward and the horns exposed) and he says: "That's the biggest damn dehumidifier I ever seen" Larry.
  2. One thought I had was to take a tape measure and measure the dimensions of the back end of the Skoda. Then you could take those numbers to the music store and see if any keyboards that are smaller than those numbers meet your sound requirements and budget. If the store doesn't carry everything, you might be able to go online and see what the dimensions are for any keyboards that you think might be promising. I've never tried it, but I think it might work. Larry.
  3. Never saw an answer to Moe's question about the swell pedal/swell box connection. The reference early on to "vol. conn.(1/4' in/out)" makes me suspect that the Hammond swell box has been removed. Replaced with an ordinary volume pedal? Larry. (Oh, and my solution to the "guitar player's buffet" drink problem was the same as meisenhower's. One warning, then any subsequent drinks placed on my gear went straight into the trash can)
  4. ... or the Dave Clark Five without that saxophone player guy. It just wouldn't be the same. Larry.
  5. Yeah, that does sound like maybe it was one of Ed's chops from the early 70s. For legs he used four sections of aluminum pipe, about 4 inches in diameter, that you screwed into sockets mounted on the underside of the organ case. Larry.
  6. Yes, back in the early 70s I had a BV for awhile that had been chopped, and percussion added, by Ed Harrington here in Chicago. Ed was selling them to rockers all over the Midwest. It never gave me a minute's trouble even though it was going in and out of a truck on an almost-nightly basis. I subsequently got out of rock n roll and sold it to a keyboard player who took it to Los Angeles, where Bill Beers at Keyboard Products did a "re-chop." My guy subsequently then toured with it for a number of years before eventually selling it to a gospel-playing church organist in LA, who I am told is still using it to this day. Some machines refuse to die, even with over 50 years of pro use, if well cared for by technicians who know what they're doing. Larry.
  7. With only four strings to deal with, ukelele tab is quite a bit easier to read than organ tab: http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Pic-Sco/BWV1121T.jpg
  8. I found another audio clip ("Barchino") here: http://www.akkordeon-maurer.de/documents/d/Accordina_Blasakkordeon_Clavietta_Claviola_Melodica_Vibrandoneon.htm#Vibrandoneons Lots of other interesting stuff on this website. Larry.
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