Yesterday Zack and I went to Williamsburg to hang up some flyers and check out the bar where our Friday show will be. It was kind of a wash on both counts: the bar was locked up tight, and there are fewer good flyering spots in Billburg than I had thought. But we did pass by Main Drag Music to find they were closed for renovations ... and had left some stuff out on the sidewalk, presumably to be thrown out. So we backed up the van and took it. Now we don't know what to do with it.

First up is an amp head: an Acoustic 270. It has an equalizer who sliders have been all broken off, but more concerning is the scary popping sound it made when I plugged it in. It would be really nice if we can get this thing to work, but there's obviously something very wrong with it.

Next is the organ. From my intensive 3-minute internet search, I have determined it's a Lowery T-2, made during that period when every organ was orange for some reason. This one is trickier. I can't tell if it works cuz I don't know how to turn it on. It doesn't have it's own power cord. What it does have, however, is legs. You open the bottom of the case and these little spindly metal legs pop out. I guess there must be a missing brace of some kind cuz I wouldn't trust these wire hangers to support the weight of the organ.

One also noted when opening the bottom the various jacks that make no sense to me. Okay, one jack is obviously a 1/4", but what's with the big one with all the pins? Is this for the pedals or something? The third jack is the only thing that looks like it might have to do with powering the keyboard. But it must be yet another proprietary connection so that you have to get a Lowery amp to go with it (organ experts out there are free to disagree and help me figure out what to do with this).

Unlike our Rhodes piano, there is very little info out on the web for this device, so I don't have the schematics or anything. I suppose eventually we'll just sic Zack on the thing and let him mess with it until it works or it ends up as a decorative wall hanging.

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