[sdiy] Spring is in the air!

[R. D. Davis]

Quothe Peter Snow, from writings of Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:11:55PM -0500:
> The snow has nearly all melted in Ottawa and it is garbage day
> today.  Here's my haul acquired while fetching my daughter from
> sewing lessons (8 minutes drive):

Hi, congratulations on all those neat finds!  Wow... garbage days here
are not nice like the one's there.  Here, it's now even illegal to
remove so-called "garbage" found on the curb.

> One Lowrey dual manual organ with foot pedals.  Works fine, some
> keys sticking.  Rickity tick drum machine built in. Only about 8
> different sounds - really, really cheesy.  The wood work is particle
> board with wood grain stick-on plastic "veneer".  A bench too.
> Suggestions?

Given that the "wood work" is particle board with platic veneer, have
you thought about extracting the keyboard and circuitry and building a
new enclosure for them?  Can you find a way to use the keyboard for a
DIY synthesizer, while still retaining it's original cheesy
functionality and sound (e.g., by switching the keyboard between a DIY
synth and the old Lowery circuitry)?

> My wife is mad as hell!

Why?  She does at least have a footpath of some sort, through things
you collect, so as to be able to get through the house, doesn't she?
:-) Not having collected a wife yet, I've not had to worry about the
consequences of collecting other things.

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