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Larry wrote:
I'm a member. It's the largest Wurlitzer every built. It is so
large the SIX blowers must be put online one-at-a-time to keep from
overloading the auditorium's electric power supply..(c; Look
through the website at the HUGE pipes, a 64' rank, the largest
pipes on the planet.
Me, I fix Hammonds....vintage Hammonds. I'm in the South, you know,
where church music isn't classical, it's gospel. Drop by and I'll
take you way out on Wadmalaw Island to an AME church where the
people speak Gullah, not English, the organ is a B-3 with twin
Leslies all tubes, and show you what REAL Christians do on Sunday
morning....It's not about money or power.
ROckin'! I had an old 1942 (I think) Hammond b-v which I
had converted to a 3. I bought it from a lady played gospel
on SUnday mornings. Bought myself the 147 to go with it,
they were using a homebrew amp/peaker cabinet her husband
built back in the '40's, he was a TV and radio repair guy.
Anyway I loved that piece.
I bought it from her in Des MOines Iowa in 1983. SHe was
moving to one of those assisted living places and couldn't
take her big organ. IT was in cherry condition having never
left her living room, she played one at church with the
lEslies etc. Anyway I gave her four $100 bills for this
thing. Brought a pickup truck with three buddies to move it
since I hadn't built my organ dolly yet. SHe cried when I
threw a couple blankets over it to move it out the door,
because then she figured out that her pride and joy was
going on the road playing rock blues and jazz in clubs bars
etc.
I love those things. GOnna have to settle for their newer
xb models because they're single manual and I can do the
bass pedals wthing with a pedal controller and midi. ONe
120 LB. old fart can't move it by himself. STill I'd like
to put another one of those big bad boys in my studio when I
eventually rebuild it.

73

Richard Webb, nf5b
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