1,301 Comments Posted by Guitorman

Alcoholism & inebriation...geez...

Funny thing is,I am writing this in a room a lot like this.I have been here since Jan. 2007. Real easy job.Schedule some service calls,keep track,answere a phone occasionally.But mostly I play on the Internet.
I am payed to play on the Internet. The boss loves the Internet.
Only the boss,his son and me.They do service calls for computers and printers.Servers,cabling.People also bring thier laptops and comps. in here.But we also fix typewriters,and this messy place is filled with IBM selectric II's & III's that people have forgotten and abandoned.
We also do old mechanical typewriters.They are fading,hard to get parts & ribbons but we still get a steady stream of customers.
My brother the pipe organist can still take out his old metal T/W (non-electric klunker) and do 60 words a minute.He was shocked to see so many selectrics here.If we refurbish them they sell for $400 a piece.

Nice on the outside...

umm..love those ceiling orns..

WE have 'em; they're out on the street.
(read my treatise on "The Government's Cure")

Beautiful room, at one time and even now.

There's that news van again!
There's that fire hose again!

Short but sweet.

Requiem for a true heavyweight.

Sureal

Very nice.

Don't wanna slam those doors.

Good stuff

Only one manual??! I can't believe that!

Keep in mind the real pipes are hidden over the wind chest. They are made of soft lead,are of varying lengths,and are plain and drab to look at.
For the largest,deepest sounds tall wooden troughs called "Bombards' were used.(of varying lengths)These "bass" pipes often had wooden plates on the side of the speaker hole for direction,resonance,and baffling.They're back there too.
Sometimes little percussive bells struck with little hammers were used to get that chime effect,although you can get that effect with a short blast of air on the smaller pipes
My brother is a pipe organist.

To those who desecrate these places shall not find peace.