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Well, at least it wasn't a vital organ!

I hope you get your money back.

The most organic thread here!

Paul, was this the organ you told me was the same one you had back in the 60's? Or maybe that was the one that was dragged by the UPS truck and had the bottom completely scraped up.

A friend of mine from high school had a jazz-ish band in the mid-70's in Phoenix...they opened up for us a couple of times, and I once got put on the guest list to go see them at the Playboy Club downtown....what a steaming, sleazy pile of dung that place was...but that's another story. (Interestingly, my friend got sick of trying to make it on the "Phoenix Jazz Scene", and split for L.A., where he got a fairly lucrative gig scoring and recording soundtracks for porno flicks...but I really am digressing, now). Anyway, the reason I brought him up is: he was driving his beat-up Dodge van to a gig across town once (back in the Phoenix daze) with his Hammond B-3 in the back, and went careening through an intersection making a left turn when the back doors of his van burst open and his 'baby' flew out into the street...he looked in the rear-view mirror and saw, to his horror, the B-3 up on one end, spinning slowly in the middle of the intersection. He pulled over, collected his wits, and backed up to the scene of the accident, where some Good Samaritans helped him load it back into his vehicle. He made it to the gig on time, and the Hammond worked perfectly...for years, he got questions from people about the curious circular scratches on one end of his organ...

Ahh, they don't build 'em like that anymore...

"for years, he got questions from people about the curious circular scratches on one end of his organ..."

Dane, man! Oh forget it. edit edit edit.

Good luck Paul. I hope yours arrives intact sans circular scratches.

Ahh, they don't build 'em like that anymore...

Yeah. People are different nowadays... or, do you mean instruments?

"Dane, man! Oh forget it. edit edit edit."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

The seller has not responded to another couple of e-mails from me. EBay has promised to send me his phone number, but so far nada.

John B., the one I had in the '60s is in storage (don't go there, Dane...) at my office. It's very small and cute. (don't go there, Dane...) Not very practical anymore, but does show how far Farfisa progressed between 1964, when this one was made, and 1970, when they brought out the Professional Duo. I've also got one of those.

I Lost My Motto.

(Name that band!)

For a little zing, there's always....
THIS....

http://www.ebayersthatsuck.com/main/index.php

I'd go for taking the bull for a stroll thru his house...oh ya..the bull in a china shop...R

I indeed took 5 minutes to register my illustrious seller on Ebayersthatsuck.com.

To be sure, it's a bunch of boring, sad tales on that site! Not very entertaining to me to read about the Sharks and the Chum.

Caveat emptor.

Cave canem, too.

Seize the Dog!!!

Hey Peter, do I win, like, a shiny silver tray full of Canadian quarters for having three 'sixes" come up in a post number?

Or have I, like, asked you that twice already?