[HAM] Franco Cozzo style black marble veneer Leslie 145 on ebay.

[Kon Zissis]

Hi everyone.
For those who want the finer things in life there is a black marble
veneer Leslie 145 on ebay with a starting price of US $6400 dollars ! 
http://cgi.ebay.com/FAUX-MARBLE-LESLIE-SPEAKER_W0QQitemZ150110134838QQih
Z005QQcategoryZ64430QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
 
This very special Leslie looks like it could  be part of a new  product
line  from the  Franco Cozzo furniture stores which are located  in " a
Norta Melban an a Footascray" . The members who live in Melbourne
Australia will instantly  recognize  Franco Cozzo's name and his TV
advert catch phrase " For the besta furniture you wanta to buy , Franco
Cozzo is a nota far away". His "megalo xepoolima" (grand sale )  catch
phrase  has been going on for nearly 20 years.
 For those who do not live in Melbourne Australia  there is a short
write up on Franco Cozzo on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Cozzo
 
Franco Cozzo  specialises in imported Italian and European  reproduction
Rococo and Baroque  style furniture , wardrobes and beds  that are
popular  in what are notoriously known in Australia as '' Wog palaces "
or "Wog mansions" which are kitschy  large ornate  double or multi story
houses  with marble  balconies , Acropolis style pillars ,  large  brick
fence  walls  with eagle and lion etc statues  that were built by
Italian , Greek and Middle Eastern immigrants who migrated to Australia
in the 1950's , 60'sand 70's and they  have become successful and
prosperous in  their business .  The "woggiest " of all wog palaces in
Melbourne would have to be the Grollo mansion  in Thornbury which is
owned by the multi millionaire  construction magnate  Bruno Grollo.  To
these Greeks  . Italians and Middle Easterners the Franco Cozzo
furniture  is considered  very desirable and the height of style and
taste but according to what some  dinky di Aussies have told me  ,  the
stylish Franco Cozzo  furniture is considered "ugly"  , "embarrassing" ,
"putrid" , "revolting" and "in poor taste". Oh well there is no
accounting for taste :-)  .
 
Perhaps  Franco Cozzo  might be able to  team up  with Hammonds and
then introduce a line of beautiful,  stylish and ornate Hammonds and
Leslies such as a pink  C3 organ with a  candelabra with little angels
on the top  and lions heads or eagles  on the lower  front sides of the
cabinet  below the rounded ends , and a glistening  white marble B3
organ   with Acropolis pillar  style marble  legs  , and a redesigned
white marble PR-40 cabinet that resembles the front face of the
Acropolis. , and a very special  gold  plated X-66 or X-77  organ built
in the middle of a  miniature pond with  water  fountains and angels
around it.  
 
All the best.
Kon