“The repair guy was like, ‘You know, I could figure this out, but just not going to be worth it to you.’ But some of them were repairable and I did that.
I just have to sell for parts, basically, because the mice just separated every wire from every connection,” he says. I have a Farfisa, it looks perfect on the outside, and it is irreparably damaged on the inside.
“There were some things that had been colonized by mice, these keyboards-they got in and made homes in several keyboards, one of which is beyond repair.
Mac McCaughan was using his time stuck at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic to go through his studio and revisit all the gear he hadn’t used in a while when he made a discovery.
