I Am Guilty.
About 5 years ago, I started a love affair.
It's not what you think.....lol
I started a love affair with the sound of the Hammond Organ with a Leslie speaker attached. I played piano and keyboards for many years, but the organ I thought was way beyond my ability to master. A good friend of mine Tyrone Hallman got me started on the organ. The picture on the right is one of my friends Kenny Johnson (far left) and Mike Casino (far right), just after we finished hauling my first organ out of the basement to make room for my new organ. You find out who your real friends are when it comes time to move an organ. In case you didn't know......they are VERRRRRY HEAVY.
But Anyway, I Digress
As a lover of the Hammond Organ sound and the owner of one of these classic instruments, you know that these days it can be hard to find someone to fix these beauties when they break. I recently began attending New Greater Straightway Baptist Church in Philadelphia, PA. They had an organ and leslie, but the leslie was in bad shape. Half the time music came out of it, the other half it was only static. A technician had been called to diagnose the problem and it was determined that the speaker DOA and would need to be replaced at a cost of $3,000 plus tax. This was way above the church's budget.
IT WAS THEN I REMEMBERED
I remembered my old friend Michael Casino. I met Mike on a Hammond Organ forum and as it turned out, we lived 10 minutes away from each other. Mike is an electronics genius. His home workshop is filled with organs, leslies, keyboards, tube amplifiers and who knows what else. Mike taught me more than I can ever remember about the inner workings of the Hammond Organ and the Leslie speaker. When I hooked up my first organ, it was Mike who taught me how to do it. When I brought my second organ, it was mike who showed me how to make an interface box so I could hook up two speakers to the organ.
LONG STORY SHORT
In less than one week with donated parts from my stash and for under $500, Michael fixed the speaker and it was back in the church for Sunday afternoon service. It sounded magnificent. I was in love again.
So if you are in the NJ tri-state area and you are looking for an organ technician who really knows his stuff, call Michael Casino @ 609-845-5032
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