On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:45:09 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888 wrote:

> 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.)

the leslie speaker is an interesting device, for sure. the romance of
physics.

your pal,
blake