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Today my friend Roger Chaussée -- a pipe organ & piano technician and vacuum cleaner collector from Riverside, California -- came over to Casa Electrolux with his friend Michael to help me go through my workshop.
He found quite a few things that tickled his fancy and went home with his SUV jam-packed! All the machines in these photos are ones that he took except for the Kirby Legend II.
He brought me quite a treasure, a 64-note stage piano from the 1940s made by the LESTER Piano Company of Philadelphia. The keyboard has 24 fewer notes than a standard 88-note keyboard.
I made lunch -- ham, egg & cheese sourdough paninis and a tossed salad, washed down with fresh lemonade.
We worked out thee most of the day but barely made a dent in the stuff....... which, I have to say, is pretty depressing. Despite all the stuff he took, it really doesn't look much different in there.
He's coming back next week for Round Two for more machines and to find attachments for the tanks and canisters he took home today.
After a nap and quiet time in the afternoon, Arlee made dinner -- curried chicken and vegetables with rice.
Later on, we went down to my church where Roger went through the entire pipe organ and made an assessment of the problems plaguing it, mostly a lot of dead notes.
"A Good Time Was Had By All."
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Today my friend Roger Chaussée -- a pipe organ & piano technician and vacuum cleaner collector from Riverside, California -- came over to Casa Electrolux with his friend Michael to help me go through my workshop.
He found quite a few things that tickled his fancy and went home with his SUV jam-packed! All the machines in these photos are ones that he took except for the Kirby Legend II.
He brought me quite a treasure, a 64-note stage piano from the 1940s made by the LESTER Piano Company of Philadelphia. The keyboard has 24 fewer notes than a standard 88-note keyboard.
I made lunch -- ham, egg & cheese sourdough paninis and a tossed salad, washed down with fresh lemonade.
We worked out thee most of the day but barely made a dent in the stuff....... which, I have to say, is pretty depressing. Despite all the stuff he took, it really doesn't look much different in there.
He's coming back next week for Round Two for more machines and to find attachments for the tanks and canisters he took home today.
After a nap and quiet time in the afternoon, Arlee made dinner -- curried chicken and vegetables with rice.
Later on, we went down to my church where Roger went through the entire pipe organ and made an assessment of the problems plaguing it, mostly a lot of dead notes.
"A Good Time Was Had By All."
