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Aug. 5th, 2009 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoBut still tiring. Took the afternoon to go investigate an old electronic theatre organ that may be available and then sit in on Gary's regular Wednesday group session. I played flute and was a bit non-plused when folks started referring to me as "James Galway" about halfway through the session. Mind, I'm probably above average for an amateur, and I've played that instrument for over 50 years, but I'm certainly no professional.
Then to work where I was frustrated to find that swapping out the power supply did not revive the machine that failed last week due to what seemed to be a fan freeze-up. It still doesn't even try to boot. The power LED just blinks yellow instead of turning green, and that's all that happens. Either it really is toast, though I'm quite sure it never overheated, or it's only good for parts.
The organ turned out to be a bit of a mixed bag thing. It's a good instrument, and the price is right. It will cost me more to have it moved than it will to acquire it. Unfortunately, it weighs enough that I think professional movers should be called. It has some issues, but none appear to be showstoppers. The worst is a whole arc of apparently dead stop tablets in the solo division, but for a whole group to have completely failed at once suggests a fairly simple problem that can be resolved if I can get a service manual.
The real fly in the soup though is the relative of the present owner who showed up while I was there and suggested that he might want to take the organ. Of course he gets precedence if he decides he wants it, which is fair enough I guess. But it was obvious that the guy does not play keyboards, knows nothing about pianos and organs, and was either just looking to pre-empt me for his own reasons or else was looking for a prestigious piece of furniture (which this one is not, at least to anyone in the know.) He was debating between the upright piano and the organ, saying he wanted one of them for his kids, who are apparently quite young. I wanted to tell him that kids who are seven or eight years old right now are not going to be interested in theatre organ, or probably even piano. That the music they want to play lends itself to guitars and maybe an occasional wind instrument, rather than to pianos or organs. I refrained from that and just pointed out to him a couple of the major flaws that are going to require repair. If, as I suspect, he's really just looking for furniture to fit in a specific place in his house, then he'll still take it. Oh well.
Then to work where I was frustrated to find that swapping out the power supply did not revive the machine that failed last week due to what seemed to be a fan freeze-up. It still doesn't even try to boot. The power LED just blinks yellow instead of turning green, and that's all that happens. Either it really is toast, though I'm quite sure it never overheated, or it's only good for parts.
The organ turned out to be a bit of a mixed bag thing. It's a good instrument, and the price is right. It will cost me more to have it moved than it will to acquire it. Unfortunately, it weighs enough that I think professional movers should be called. It has some issues, but none appear to be showstoppers. The worst is a whole arc of apparently dead stop tablets in the solo division, but for a whole group to have completely failed at once suggests a fairly simple problem that can be resolved if I can get a service manual.
The real fly in the soup though is the relative of the present owner who showed up while I was there and suggested that he might want to take the organ. Of course he gets precedence if he decides he wants it, which is fair enough I guess. But it was obvious that the guy does not play keyboards, knows nothing about pianos and organs, and was either just looking to pre-empt me for his own reasons or else was looking for a prestigious piece of furniture (which this one is not, at least to anyone in the know.) He was debating between the upright piano and the organ, saying he wanted one of them for his kids, who are apparently quite young. I wanted to tell him that kids who are seven or eight years old right now are not going to be interested in theatre organ, or probably even piano. That the music they want to play lends itself to guitars and maybe an occasional wind instrument, rather than to pianos or organs. I refrained from that and just pointed out to him a couple of the major flaws that are going to require repair. If, as I suspect, he's really just looking for furniture to fit in a specific place in his house, then he'll still take it. Oh well.
