Part 3: The Purchase

Part III : The Purchase

After my visit the advertisment was modified so the price said $150, rather than free or trade. I didn't care. I was done with it and basically crossed it off my mental list.

Several weeks passed, I went on vacation to Mexico, bought a house, schemed over other instruments (got a Univox PHZ-1 for $30). For some reason I didn't go back to the Fender Rhodes forum for a while.

Then one day, on a break at work, I popped in and noticed my harpsichord thread had been bumped. Someone had spotted an eBay sale of an old Baldwin Harpsichord with a Fender silverface amp. The auction ended for $3,333.

Now, at least $1,000 of that is the amp (which by its self was a dream). But the Harpsichord got some serious attention. It looked to be in really good shape, not like the one I had seen that was in poor condition.

Needless to say I picked my jaw up off the floor and decided to make a call. For some reason before the classified ad for the Harpsichord had expired I remembered to copy down the seller's phone number.

I called her back up. There had been no other buyers. I explained that I had $50 in birthday money, and would she take that for the Harpsichord.

She agreed.

Three days later I was driving home with a 1960s Baldwin Combo Harpsicord in the back of my old VW van.