Members pogo97 Posted February 21, 2016 Members Share Posted February 21, 2016 http://www.kijiji.ca/v-other-musical-instrument/napanee/estey-folding-pump-organ-reduced-price/1125639015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Voltan Posted February 21, 2016 Members Share Posted February 21, 2016 no.you need two.dont ask why, just say thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted February 21, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 21, 2016 thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Voltan Posted February 21, 2016 Members Share Posted February 21, 2016 youre asking a bad cat about whether or not to pull the trigger on an instrument Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted February 21, 2016 Moderators Share Posted February 21, 2016 Yeah, but the first question is: does it work? Many old 'pump' organs have their bellows in a total state of deterioration. If that unit works, for $370 CDN, that's like, what, $12 US? right? You may not 'need' it, but how could you pass up a completely self-contained keyboard in a portable package? For that price? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted February 21, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 21, 2016 Yeah, but the first question is: does it work? Many old 'pump' organs have their bellows in a total state of deterioration. If that unit works, for $370 CDN, that's like, what, $12 US? right? You may not 'need' it, but how could you pass up a completely self-contained keyboard in a portable package? For that price? *Sigh* He says it works. So, when the CDN dollar follows oil into the hole, the big bosses in Canada understand and raise everybody's wages to compensate, so I should be buying buying buying! $370 is real money in my little world, so that's a consideration. More than that, I live in a house with three other people, all of whom have too much stuff. Stuff. I could moan for hours about stuff. My next life, I'll play finger cymbals like Voltan, dancing naked through the sun dappled woods with a train of nymphets in my wake. Sure would look cool onstage, though. Three octaves, one sound. And your feet go up and down while you play. What could go wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Voltan Posted February 22, 2016 Members Share Posted February 22, 2016 lol@ finger cymbals... one of my gongs weighs like 87 lbs... i should have stuck with the piccolo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Voltan Posted February 22, 2016 Members Share Posted February 22, 2016 and quite frankly, all the nymphettes in this neck of the woods run screaming in the opposite direction when i even look at the woods... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pinkfloydcramer61 Posted February 22, 2016 Members Share Posted February 22, 2016 I think an accordion would be a better investment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted February 22, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 22, 2016 I think an accordion would be a better investment. A friend lent me his accordion. I only had to spend about five minutes with it to realise that I don't have enough life left to learn this thing properly. Immediately gave it back. Great instrument, big big learning curve. A bit like pedal steel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shaster Posted February 22, 2016 Members Share Posted February 22, 2016 Know what you mean about stuff. I'm trying to get rid of some speaker cabs, I've just got too many; yet somehow I don't have enough... Oh well, it's not as bad as the fellow I know that collects Hammonds. We're talking big heavy stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Notes_Norton Posted February 22, 2016 Members Share Posted February 22, 2016 It's impossible to have too many musical toys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Voltan Posted February 22, 2016 Members Share Posted February 22, 2016 hey man,,ive got a set of altec voice of teh theaters with h11b horns, complete with crossovers... oh yeah, theyre loaded with sro's15s... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Voltan Posted February 22, 2016 Members Share Posted February 22, 2016 It's impossible to have too many musical toys i and i liek teh way you tink, mon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted February 22, 2016 Moderators Share Posted February 22, 2016 You know the true definition of 'perfect pitch', right? The sound of an accordion landing in a dumpster... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted February 22, 2016 Moderators Share Posted February 22, 2016 Accordion to whom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted February 22, 2016 Moderators Share Posted February 22, 2016 They make great firewood once you take the speakers out... I made the mistake of saying that to one of the mucky-mucks at Cerwin-Vega when I consulted for them back in the 90s...no sense of humor, those people...except when it came to list pricing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted February 22, 2016 Moderators Share Posted February 22, 2016 You are lucky your sig-oth is a musician as well...I'm jus'sayin'.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted February 22, 2016 Members Share Posted February 22, 2016 pump organ. I bought one once. Looked nice in the front parlor in the Georgetown, D.C. townhouse. Painted decorative pipes . . . Put it in my pickup and when I attempted to reinstall the decorative pipes when I got it home, it became clear that the ceilings in the townhouse were ten feet high. Oops. So the pipes stayed on the floor next to organ. Sold it a year later . . . then moved into a contemporary house a few months later . . . . . with cathedral ceilings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted February 23, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 23, 2016 I imagine this is a reed organ rather than pipes. (Actually, I'm quite sure since it's 'portable'.) I was thinking about this and realised that having a tiny reed organ at home is no big deal for me. I have sole access to a very nice Casavant pipe organ at the Catholic church about four blocks from here. It's not as portable, of course, but it's always set up and ready to go if there's nothing else going on in the church. And since I have a key to the church, that includes evenings and night-time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted February 23, 2016 Moderators Share Posted February 23, 2016 a church key? http://madbetty.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/IMG_8958.jpg[now there is another 'American' anachronism like 'station wagon', 'television set', 'record player', carburetor, 'book strap'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted February 23, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 23, 2016 That's for opening your beer when there isn't a seatbelt handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pinkfloydcramer61 Posted February 23, 2016 Members Share Posted February 23, 2016 I've had that same realization with other instruments. Shame though- accordion IMO the ultimate self-contained portable keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted February 23, 2016 Author Members Share Posted February 23, 2016 Agreed. I think that every band or solo I've heard in the past five years could benefit from a good accordion player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted February 24, 2016 Moderators Share Posted February 24, 2016 seat belts wouldn't open the old pre-pull-tab/pop-top cans, though...pocket knife or a screwdriver would work in a pinch, albeit a tad messy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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