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Dude, you need to change them settings. Drawbars, perc. and vibrato looked pretty...uh..."unique". :D

I guess 2nd harmonic's no big deal. But C1...and your lower harmonics pushed all the way in made me think of a roller rink.... :crazy: Of course maybe you were experimenting that day of the photo op.... But for a guy with a Jimmy picture on your signature, Jimmy would smack the back of your head if he saw that!

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If the guy is in San Fran, how could this be Dr. Lonnie Smith's? Lonnie lives in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

I think Lonnie spends some good time several times a year in San Fran with organist Wil Blades. So I wouldn't be surprised if this is for real. I think Lonnie has a place in NYC he stays as well as Florida, but to be honest, the world seems to be his real home as he has people and organs stashed in every port. :D

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Just got this email from my good friend Pete Fallico:

Apparently some one saw my recent ad on Craig’s list to ‘get rid’ of an HR-40 tone cabinet that I had. I mentioned that it belonged to Lonnie Smith because it did.

About a year ago, Lonnie and I were driving up El Camino Real (Mt. View, CA) in my van and I suggested that we stop at this music store (called ‘The Starving Musician’) because I had heard they had a Hammond B-3 for sale. Well, we walked in and saw the B-3 at the far end of the room. Lonnie sat at it and started it up. It had a Hammond HR-40 tone cabinet connected to it. I asked how much they wanted for it and when they said $1995 Lonnie said “I’m buying it” (He knew that if he hadn’t said it, I would have!)

So, to make a long story short, we bought it and I wound up storing the organ and HR-40 in my garage with three other organs. Just last month my wife asked me to get rid of something so I elected to sell the HR-40 for Lonnie. When I asked him if I could, he was all in favor of it. I only got $50 for it but I thought that was fifty dollars more than what it was worth. Lonnie and I took the organ to Bob Schleicher who put a Leslie switch and Trek reverb on it. I still keep it at my place as Lonnie’s ‘Bay Area organ’

So that’s the true story. Yes, Lonnie has a house in Ft. Lauderdale and yes, he keeps an apartment in NYC and yes, he has friends all over the country like me who put him up for weeks at a time. He’s one of my very best friends.

Thanks,

Pete

So I was wrong. It actually did belong to Dr. Lonnie Smith. They still sound like poo, though! :D And I still have one sitting in my garage.

Forgive me, Pete! :D

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