From k2mojo@groovedaddies.com Sun Sep 22 14:18:56 2002
Subject:OT: Deal of a Lifetime (was voce electric piano)

This is how I got my first Leslie back in 1972. I was fifteen and answering
a local newspaper ad for a used Farfisa organ. The son of the couple
selling it had gone onto college and had instructed the parents to sell it
because he needed the cash. After I got there, I was informed that the big,
in-the-way speaker that accompanied the organ, a beautiful Leslie 147, was
also part of the deal and all they needed was $125 cash. After many years
of road abuse, the Farfisa is sadly now long gone, but the Leslie still sits
in my spare bedroom where it will most likely live until my son inherits it.

Ed Fliege
k2mojo@groovedaddies.com
www.groovedaddies.com

> About seven years ago, just before moving from Baltimore to LA, I saw
> one of those ads in a local paper. "Wulitzer Electric Piano... Good
> Condition $100". Well sure enough it was a from parents whose
> daughter had it for lessons and it never left their living room and
> they no longer had a need for it. It was in perfect shape and it
> even came with this cutom made bag. Needless to say I snatched it up
> and it's been on quite a few blues/soul gigs and recordings. A
> contact on the headphone jack just broke, but other than that has
> worked flawlessly (and in tune) since the day I drove home with it
> and the huge smile from that score. I am still looking for that
> person looking to have some nice guy to come and remove that big old
> Hammond organ along with that huge speaker cabinet from their living
> room for a couple of hundred dollars.
>
> Of course it would be a B-3 and a 122 and I would be doing them a
> favor by getting rid of that old thing that gramma doesn't play
> anymore.
>
> I can dream can't I?
>
> I guess I should be happy with having it happen once to me.

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