[HAM] Critters(mice)

[OF]

Slogan of older Hammond techs who remember Hanna-Barbera cartoons:
"I hates meeces to pieces!"

I once had a baby squirrel stuck behind the lower rotor in my 122. The cat 
had drug it in. I forget what happened after that, maybe for a good reason.

How many of us have taken apart an organ to find piles of dog food stashed 
in there?

At 03:22 PM 2/24/2007, Doug Irvine wrote:

>This brought back a reminder from my past! Away back in the 60's I had a
>customer in a small town in Manitoba, surrounded by grain farms.  I had
>sold Marge an M-111 which she had in their living room(parlor) and as
>she was also the organist of her church, to whom I had also sold a
>Hammond, she was busy practicing the next Sunday's music.  She was aware
>that they had mice in the house, but they were held in check by the
>house cats.  Mostly! This particular day, she was aware of a mouse which
>scampered across the floor, and when she saw the mouse she yelled for
>her husband to come kill it, and before he got there, said mouse had
>disappeared behind the organ. She continued playing, and when she
>paused, could hear the mouse IN the Hammond! It got in, but could not
>find it's way out.  So, Marge hit the expression pedal, pulled out a
>handful of drawbars, and let 'er rip!! Well, the mouse let out a series
>of loud squeaks, somehow managed to come out through the expression
>pedal enclosure, went around in circles a couple of times, and dropped
>dead in the middle of the parlor! Her husband who had arrived by this
>time, saw all this occur, and broke right up! Marge heard him howling
>with glee, turned around and saw the mouse and he told her that her
>playing had killed the mouse! Actually the volume of sound had likely
>killed the mouse, as where it was hiding, right under those speakers, it
>got full blast....poor mouse likely imploded!!
>Well, I wrote a poem about this little episode, and when I locate it,
>will post it, for the amusement of all! I used to write some pretty good
>rhymes, did one that I fired off to Don Leslie, about Leslie speakers,
>and how the moooosic went round and round! My one problem is that I
>never can recall them, and if I do not have them on paper, they are gone
>forever. Mercifully so, in some cases :-D !  Cheers, Doug in BC