Originally Posted by spamtrap1888

On Aug 21, 9:59*pm, phaeton wrote:
Not food related, but a year ago or so I picked up a 1956 Hammond
model M3 tonewheel organ. *If y'all want pics i've got em, but I'm
here to tell you that it's as beautiful to look at and listen to today
as it was before Sputnik ever cast its menacing shadow across the
U.S.

I fired her up yesterday and played stuff that my girlfriend refers to
as "funeral music". *It's great!

When we were kids, my dad brought one home with a Leslie speaker.
Sounded really fabulous when the speaker got going. It also came with
a chikaboom machine that was fully five feet tall.

(The backstory: The wife of a friend of my dad's ran off with her
chiropractor. She had worked weekends as a lounge act -- the organ,
the Leslie, and the rhythm machine -- but had abandoned her career for
her true love. My dad's friend wanted all that junk out of his living
room.)