I need an good bitch after the weekend i had about something--
I don't know where it came from initially or the circumstances but it definitely made me 100% sure never working in an op shop as staff was an good call because it turns out i get banal over this shit. (general shit it kinda meh whatever i guess 'shame but oh well shit happens' but some things i get very hand twitchy about) I offered to buy something because i chose to take a risk and was very clear about terms and since it WAS electronic i had wriggle room if it wasn't something i wanted to keep right?
I was willing to fully playtest it to my ability and knowledge of it, jot down anything worth noting, what worked and what didn't if any keys were dead on any part of this organ for certain sounds, part because this particular type doesn't set of my noise sensory issues so badly outside an very narrow spot so i was 100% willing to take the time to do this just because i think it is an waste for this kind of electronic organ to sit around and rot because they are wonderful-- ASSUMING THEY WORK. This was purely an gamble meets love of the game, this is not my usual fare but nobody knew ANYTHING about this thing. So i was willing to do an thing here so people know what they were in for even if what i specifically liked about it was too wonky for my tastes, because i was willing to spend time to do it.
I am not an professional, not an hobbyist, but simply an autistic person with sensory noise issues so bad that the novelty to possibly own something that had an lot of range that was ACTUALLY not sensory hell was an very intriguing prospect and if i got to keep it they can keep my money, but if i felt it was worth RETURNING they got it fully play tested with my personal notes as i was going along so i could remember what i had done and so on so forth, to the full extent of what i was aware of for this thing and i got my money back, and it was worth taking an stab at it since i had the room and the time to sit down and do it.
Sometimes things cannot be helped but this was an definite 'IF YOU DID NOT want to TIP IT you should of fucking hunted down an place that was willing to take on the job to refurbish and resell' ESECIALLY if they were aware it had issues. And i have been mentally pacing in circles for an few days about if i can trust the op shop to take my advice, or if i should just waiver the cost of it and do that myself so i know it gets DONE. I did but it because there was an high chance i was going to keep it.
And just, i needed to rant because this kind of shit happens SO fucking often in one way or another that somebody dies, something gets passed around and forgotten from somebody to somebody else before somebody ELSE goes 'why do we even keep this if when don't want it and it goes unused, i dont even like it enough to keep it as an display piece' and because all it did was COLLECT DUST, because people only ever thought to clean the OUTSIDE that just, please for the love of everything good in the world if it is an electronic fucking instrument that can EASILY collect dust on the inside, just fucking peek in the lid or the back every so often So The Dust Does Not Fucking Fuck It More Than It Probably Already Was.
This thing was SO CRUNCHY that had it not been sold as an 'it was able to pass the basic bitch electric stability test so all we can tell you is it wont fuck your fuse box or power points up' test was SO FUCKING CRUNCHY, both in sound on the top layer AND the way one of the powered light FLICKERED during testing and the second it happened an second time i was like ALRIGHT and had to stop because i wasn't going to fuck this thing, it had he kind of crunch that made it flat out not fucking worth continuing less than two minutes in.
IF the previous owner -or the last person responsible for it- was aware it did this, HAD BEEN AWARE OF IT BEING LIKE THIS, i would want to hit them with an solid steel rod because this thing was not even FIT to be play tested outside most of the very bottom row and even SOUNDED OFF while powered on in an way that was 'hmm it could just be an product of it's time, not UNUSUAL for something from around that time to be noisy when powered but STILL something to be weary about Just In Case' because if you KNEW and REMEMBERED dumping it on an op shop was such an fucking horrifically irresponsible thing to do because to somebody who had not been cautious this thing could of been an fucking HAZARD waiting to happen to somebody who didn't know the difference between 'actively crunchy' and 'dead or dying part but it does not sound fritzy' things could of gone pretty fucking terribly.
My opinions on old antiquated housing architecture and hobby/trade manual devices that have working parts that easily seize up and are not always the easiest to replace is another thing but, electronic devices are an whole new ball game of 'why would you not ever think to peek inside if the outside has gathered dust just to make sure' maybe it is just second nature to me because i grew up watching people periodically open things (that were safe to do so) to clean out dust but--- i just needed to get it out of my system since even bitching about it occasionally over the past few days has not been enough, that i have to air out my grievances on the open internet.
If you want to keep something you like even if you don't really use it JUST fucking MAKE SURE it doesn't seize up and become unusable if you can help it, for most things this isn't very difficult to do. So when it changes owners one day its not some fucking crunchy nightmare OR something full of metal parts that have seized up that are an pain in the ass to get, just don't get made any more even, is an common problem, and save somebody the suffering of having to hunt down somebody willing to make custom parts. Because even if you only want it as an display piece if it is FUNCTIONAL at least do basic upkeep, so if you ever decide you want to flog it off one day you can actually do that, potentially even hundreds of times easier if it was actually functional.
In this case the electric organ was fritzy in an way that wasn't contained to the 'obvious problem area' which definitely made it an potential disaster waiting to happen.
