Jonesy,
Nice story-wish I still had my first-Wurlitzer E.Piano w/speaker box
that had 4-8"speakers-beige in color-circa '65.
Pete
jonesalley wrote:
> I managed to pick up an interesting keyboard a while back. It's an Ace
> Tone Top 5 combo organ with one four-octave manual, it's garish red
> and white with screw-on stainless steel legs, it only makes five
> sounds and generally speaking is the kind of instrument that I can't
> stand. I paid way more than it's worth, but I would have gladly paid
> even more than I did to own it.
>
> It's where I began turning into me. It's the very first instrument I
> ever played on stage in a rock band, back in the winter of 1969. Not
> one like it, but the exact same one. It was owned by the guy who
> played bass and ran the band, and I borrowed it on and off for four or
> five years in the 70's until I finally started getting some real
> keyboards of my own.
>
> Even with the collection I have amassed in the meantime, I have
> wondered about this humble little instrument all these decades and a
> few months ago I decided to see if I could track it down. I succeeded
> and it's home with me now for good. Amazingly, it seems to have been
> in a time capsule and it looks like nobody has even played it since
> the last time I did, it just sat in closets all these years. The
> little black scuff mark that I accidentally made on the cover looks
> like it just happened yesterday.
>
> And now it's mine. Forever. I almost cried when I opened the box and
> saw it for the first time in thirty years. I still can't look at it
> without getting a lump in my throat, and I've had it here for a couple
> of weeks now.
>
> I feel like I just married my high school sweetheart. And she is
> exactly the same as she was the last time I saw her.
>