The previous owner had got it new for AU$6,000 around 1980—serious cash! I got it for $100 (and then spent about an extra $150–200 on fuel &c. due to living som

The previous owner had got it new for AU$6,000 around 1980—serious cash! I got it for $100 (and then spent about an extra $150–200 on fuel &c. due to living some hundreds of kilometres away), and it had been listed on Gumtree for a couple of months, with only one other bloke having expressed interest (he played and enjoyed it, but declared himself a Yamaha man). There’s just not much interest in these beauties. There was a full-on national news article a year or two back about some suburban house somewhere with a pipe organ that was for sale but only for someone who’d appreciate and use it. Pipe organs are part of the house; but these organs, I dunno, I feel that they’re big enough most buyers wouldn’t want to let you leave ’em behind. Oh look, another interesting one in the Melbourne area now, https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/frankston/keyboards-pianos/conn-organ/1320614534 https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/frankston/keyboards-pianos/c.... Uncommon indeed. Hmm, if it’s still on the market when I get back in March… even if I need to get rid of some furniture to fit it conveniently… drawbar organ, electric organ, upright piano and digital piano quartet? Sigh, really wish I had more space to conveniently fit all this and a grand piano or two. They’re all such different instruments despite seeming similar in some ways that I kinda want ’em all.