Yesterday was a veritable nightmare. Montréal got 41cm of snow overnight. At 11am the organ movers showed up (3 hours late). The back alley was inaccessible to the truck so we had to shovel a 1m wide path from the back door through the alley and all the way out onto the street. The street only had one ploughed lane so cars were piling up behing the truck honking, etc. For every piece we loaded we had to send the truck a trip around the block so people could get out.
Driving from here to the venue across town took over an hour. Stuck cars and buses everywhere and we almost got squashed by a garbage truck that slid out and almost keeled over on St-Laurent.
When we finally made it to the venue the mover's truck went into a pit and we spent half an hour digging and pushing that out. Then we had to dig a path to the front door so we could get the organ in. Once inside it turned out the venue didn't have elevators. So the movers had to carry the organ up the stairs.
These guys were not our regular movers and despite moving pianos for a living, they had no idea how to handle my Hammond. So they made things a billion times harder for themselves. They were, however, not susceptible to reason or my experience. So whatever.
Once we got the organ on stage and the cover taken off, I discovered that a tube had fallen out of the preamp and that two of the back panel screws had stripped the wood. This is the last time I let rookies mess with my instrument!
Before the show, Dave, Melissa, Jim, Kenny, Vanessa and I went to Los Planes for an awesome pupusa/plantain dinner. Yum! The show itself went well although the room had boomy acoustics so the sound wasn't too hot.
Looking forward to moving the organ back home on Monday...
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