exceedingly lame
Welcome to Bob Loesch's ^ Home Page
Well, okay, it's not as lame as I thought, but still needs to get better.
It will! I promise!
The original Stanford Theatre organ:
This 3-manual, 10-rank Smith organ was remarkably like a Wurlitzer Style 216,
save that it had a 3-manual console rather than the 2-manuals provided by the
Wurlitzer company. Removed from the theatre in the early 1960s, it was
installed in the recording/broadcasting studio at Simpson College, where I made
its acquaintance. It was later sold to southern California organ buff
Harvey Heck.
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We've lost a dear friend, Peaches, who was our 11- or 12-year-old "Pit
Beagle", who came to us in 1998 as an abused foundling of unknown age. She
was a very sweet friend, who seldom had a cross word for anyone. We'll
miss her, and you can see her brief story on the Dog Page.
Peaches with Margie, her best friend.
Peaches
1997(?) to May 24, 2008
Rest in peace, sweet girl.
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- Theatre Pipe Organs
- In their heyday, they provided the musical accompaniment
for the "Silver Screen". Today, they're
beautiful instruments for playing music from almost any
era. They don't do too well for "rap", though, but then,
what does?...
- Reed Organs
- The earliest of the "home organs", they are
today a wonderful reminder of a time when almost every
evening was a "Family-Home" evening.
- Band Organs
- Called "Merry-go-round" organs, "nickelodeons", "hurdy-gurdys", and many
other incorrect names, these were "outside-only" entertainments for many
years beginning shortly before the turn of the 20th Century. More
information will follow soon!
- Automatic Musical
Instruments
- Before Compact Discs... Before Stereo Cassettes... Before
8-Track tapes... Before LPs... Before television...
Before radio... Before the Victrola... there were
(Drum-roll, please...) Player Pianos, and their cousins;
band organs, fair organs, dance organs, orchestrions, and
more.
- Roll Scanning
- A new interest that goes right along with the Automatic Musical
Instruments: Preservation of the music rolls upon which these instruments
depend.
- Antique Gas Engines and
Pumps
- Today, we have 100 horse-power gasoline engines that
weigh only 150 pounds. Built in 1919, this 6 horse-power
Fairbanks-Morse Model Z Gasoline/Oil (Kerosene) engine
weighs a whopping 900 pounds...
- Outboard Motors
- My favourite is a steam outboard motor. Yes, you have
read that correctly. My other outboard is a late 1930s
Champion
- Antique Clocks
- Antique clocks have fascinated me for many years. Alas, my present
site is too small to hold "Cuckoobob's Clocks" and "The Poor Man's Clock
Museum". email me if you have any questions, or if there's a photo
you'd like to see.
And this is my Lovely Wife, Margie, "playing" with another
friend, actor Alan Rickman in New York City, 2005.
Electronic mail address
cuckoobob@yahoo.com
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