[HAM] Critters(mice)

[John Freund]

I found rodent droppings UNDER a permanently locked down TG on my B3.  I
have no idea how.

I also found a buffalo head nickel smashed between an "arm" of the manuals
and the "rail" they sit on in same B3.  It was so worn I couldn't read the
year. 

Money, organ studio bizness cards, set lists (my SKA-REAMING 58 B3
apparently played such delights as "If" and "Puff the Magic Dragon"), a slip
of paper with a woman's name (first only) and a phone number, pencils,
preset tags, a god-knows-how-old stick of doublemint, sheesh, what else?

/john

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hammond-bounces at zeni.net 
> [mailto:hammond-bounces at zeni.net] On Behalf Of OF
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 10:33 AM
> To: The Hammond Forum
> Subject: Re: [HAM] Critters(mice)
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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