I’m currently taking a hiatus from building miniature terrain.
I’m also taking a bit of a hiatus from this blog, apparently. Things haven’t been this quiet here since 2008—where you know, I only wrote 1 measly entry.
What I’m not taking a break from however, is music making and all of its various forms.
By which I mean, I may have accidentally stumbled onto a 1960’s Winfield Audition Electric Organ in a vintage warehouse.
And then perhaps I accidentally haggled the price down to £15 because it didn’t work—functioning ones in good condition go for £150 on eBay.
I may have then, quite possibly, completely unintentionally opened it up and fixed it in less than 10 minutes—because I’m actually quite handy.
So, now I have fully working 1960’s Winfield Audition Electric Organ and it sounds amazing—It’s a free reed aerophone where the only electrical part is a small fan motor that provides the air needed to blow through the reeds as you press the keys to play the notes.
Honestly, fucking love it already. So I’m going to have to figure out how to sample things—that’s a thing people do, right?—so that I can sample it and use it in future songs.
Oh right, songs, yes, still doing those.
I have rough demos for all the songs. I have laid out the entire first album. I’m currently, well, sort of building a guitar so that I can get the guitar sound I want.
“But Carlos, didn’t you buy a guitar like a while ago?” I hear you ask.
Why yes, dear reader. I did. How lovely of you to remember.
It’s basically a cheap Stratocaster style guitar and I’m not feeling the sound of the single coil pickups.
So I may have also accidentally, totally not on purpose—but obviously completely on purpose—bought a second-hand, in pieces Epiphone Les Paul Special II 1997 Sunburst Indonesia—that I will also fix. I haven’t fixed this one yet, it only arrived this Friday, and this Friday was snip snip day, so no guitar building for me.
I’m optimistic though and I’m hoping, based on my early research, that the humbucker pickups are going to have the sound I’m looking for.
Although, as a side-note, I did also buy some after market single coil pickups so that I can swap out the Stratocaster ones.
And no, I’m not going to talk about tone wood. Don’t worry.
I’m quite excited to enter this new era of adulthood. Bring on my forties—which I’m already in—I’m loving it so far.