I've been listing items on craigslist, and finally caved and joined Nextdoor. Every once in a while when I'm posting my stuff, someone else's listing catches my eye.
This morning:
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Baldwin Piano for sale/ good condition. Has all piano keys
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I recall several years ago there was an auction on fleaBay for an organ like that. Some guy was selling it on behalf of his church and had hoped to raise hundreds of dollars for the church. Of course, shipping was out of the question, at least by the usual three. I watched the auction... it sold... for the one bid it got which was at the initial minimum:
I think it’s a tough sell unless it’s a classic Hammond or similar.
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I think you're right. My father was a farmer during the day and a piano teacher on the side. At one time, he had a number of adult organ students who typically played an electronic organ such as the Lowry pictured. He also was an agent for a Hammond dealer and later an agent for Minshall organs that were an electronic organ originally designed in Canada and subsequently manufactured in Brattleboro, Vermont in a factory where Estey reed organs had been built. Eventually, the popularity of home organs as a way to make music evaporated and most of those organs became even more of a drug on the market than cheap spinet pianos.
For what it's worth, I still have a Hammond C100 (full cabinet version and successor of the famous Hammond B3) in my living room, but I don't play it anymore. It's easier to sit down at the Yamaha Clavinova on the opposite side of the room and play some piano music.
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