[HAM] Critters(mice)

[Toussaint]

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

No dog food but, cat doo~
I got my organ from a lady who housed 11 cats,.....there was cat droppings 
on the pedals, yuck,  i left everytrhing outside the 1st night lysoled it 
insde out. Then i had to reinstall the funk;o)

"T" ain't it funky now?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "OF" <scott195 at centurytel.net>
To: "The Hammond Forum" <hammond at zeni.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 10:33 AM
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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