Jon,
What a gorgeous instrument!Congradulations.
Pete
Jon wrote:
> I was contacted last week by a production company that needed some
> nice current photographs of a Hammond Novachord for a project they are
> working on. I responded and told them that I would be happy to try to
> oblige them but would need a few days to supply it, and they said that
> was fine, their deadline wasn't until today to submit the photos for
> approval.
>
> I spent four solid days excavating and cleaning my nightmare of a
> garage enough to reorganize and make room to pull a Novachord out and
> be able to set some backdropping in order to get some decent photos.
> I spent another day cleaning, polishing, and doing minor repairs to
> the prettiest of my Novachords in hopes that I could get it looking
> good enough to pose for some pretty pictures.
>
> A photographer friend of mine came over and took shots under different
> lightings and from different angles, took the camera home and did some
> cropping and editing, and came up with a nice array of attractive
> Novachord photos. I submitted the photos and got word back yesterday
> that the Art Director for the project was very pleased with the
> results and approved the photographs for use. They sent releases for
> my photographer and I to sign, and I faxed them back today, so it's a
> done deal.
>
> A photograph of my Hammond Novachord is going to appear in the
> companion DVD included in the upcoming release of Disney's "Pinocchio"
> on DVD, and I'm going to get name credit as the owner of the
> instrument! Even if I can't be famous, at least my toys can...
>
> So, here's Novachord #1431, looking prettier than she has in decades.
> Still waiting on restoration, so not functional yet, but looking like
> this is really making getting all of the electrical work done a lot
> more urgent!
>