So I was poking around in a storage garage at my school when I found this beast:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/organ.jpg[/img]
It's a Baldwin Fanfare from about 1976, and it's massive. I went and found the caretaker and asked him about it, and he told me he'd found it in the rubbish compound about 6 years ago, so he nabbed it and put it in the garage. He also said if it worked, it was mine.
I took it home today, put it and my conservatory and realised it was [i]really fucking dirty[/i]. So I pulled out the hoover and cleaned that bastard up. There was bird seed, mouse droppings and all sorts of weird shit on it (though thankfully there were no mice inside it).
It's also got some really cool functions. You see that metal bar between the two rows of keys? You can touch it and play the bottom keys with it like a slider. It also has a [i]really shitty drum machine[/i] and a feature which lets you "strum" the keys (where you hold down a chord and it will repeat the notes you have held down).
And after much pressing of buttons and twiddling of knobs, I managed to get that "crunchy" sound you hear from a hammond organ.
A bit of varnish and I should have a grade-A musical instrument (even if the volume knob doesn't work and I have to control the volume with the pedal).
Lucky. I'd love to hear how it sounds.
I was expecting a stomach or a lung.
:ninja:
I thought you got a donated organ, alot less interesting now.
Expecting kidney, left disappointed.
Expected an internal organ.
Oh wow, mega ninja'd.
-snip, late-
I thought you meant like a heart or a kidney and thats why I came into this thread
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;27552480] ...and a feature which lets you "strum" the keys (where you hold down a chord and it will repeat the notes you have held down).[/QUOTE] I think its called an arpeggiator...
[QUOTE=Wikipedia :(]An arpeggiator is a feature available on some synthesisers that automatically steps through a sequence of notes based on an input chord, thus creating an arpeggio.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Zeldy;27552565]I was expecting a stomach or a lung.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;27552573]I thought you got a donated organ, alot less interesting now.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=amcwatters;27552575]Expecting kidney, left disappointed.[/QUOTE]
This is why I still come to GD. Never change GD, never Change.
Ooh, waterfall keys. Have no idea what it sounds like so I can't judge, but if you know what a good Hammond sound is like, I'm sure it's in good hands.
ITT: Discussion of mistaking this thread as organ donation
ITT: Where is the heart/kidney/lungs/penis/vagina?
[img]http://0.tqn.com/f/p/440/graphics/images/en/19246.jpg[/img]
There now talk about the instrument please :smith:
[QUOTE=not_Morph53;27552620]This is why I still come to GD. Never change GD, never Change.[/QUOTE]
Can't make any promises.
It would be so cool to circuit bend an organ.
I was expecting an I was expecting a body part.
Post yourself playing it.
Oh the caretaker found a piano stool in that garage too and I swear it is the most annoying piano stool in the world because it's just a few millimetres too high for my knees to fit under it
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;27552480][img_thumb]http://filesmelt.com/dl/organ.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
I'm sorry but that won't fit inside you
The title played me for a fool!
Thread disappointed me.
[QUOTE=Zeldy;27552565]I was expecting a stomach or a lung.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Hunterdnrc;27552589]Expected an internal organ.
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this
I was honestly thinking that, upon entering the thread, grotesque images of a stomach hastily & poorly preserved in seran wrap inside of a cardboard box would have been visible, out of media tags, and by the time I replied, "gross," the OP would have been banned and the pictures taken out of his post.
I was expecting a real organ, not an electronic one.
Opened thread hoping to see a rags to riches story about the opportunistic recovery of a Hammond B3 organ. Saw that it was a Baldwin and not a Hammond.
It's worth very little for an organ :smith:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pchpDD5EU[/media]
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