new keyboard!

My sister is quite awesome.

She messaged me during last week asking if I was interested in an organ that was going for nothing. I curiously asked about it (not wanting a huge church organ). She called me today from her mother-in-law (to be)’s place and tried to describe it to me.

It’s a Baleani Altimoro. Although that could just be the brand name. It’s all Italian apparently. But some searching on the internet finds that most Baleani Altimoros are accordians. And this is an organ. But I found a band’s myspace, where their keyboardist had blogged about his - saying the same thing, that it was hard to find any info about it. But there’s at least a picture there, and the guy describes the sound that it makes, which potentially could be quite interesting.

At any rate, I’m looking forward to getting it and hearing how it sounds. Perhaps it’ll make sounds worthy of playing more often. If not, perhaps eBay will let me know that its seeming rarity might be worth something…