I was at a customer's house sorting through her recently passed fathers basement when I saw a neglected and dust covered 1930 console tube radio in the corner. I asked her about it and her entire face lit up as she told me it was her fathers radio and she had fond memories of gathering around it as a child and listening along with her father.
I asked her if I could do something special with it and she said "Sure, it's just going to sit there collecting dust. I don't have a use for it and I don't have the heart to throw it away."
I brought the radio back to my studio, refinished the cabinet to make it look new, removed the outdated tube radio and replaced it with a Bose Bluetooth stereo system. The piece was absolutely stunning to look at and could produce studio quality sound all controlled by your smartphone or other smart home device like Google assistant or Amazon echo.
As I powered up the system, queued up the requested song Hotel California and slowly unveiled it, She was overcome with emotion and burst into tears. I was able to build that childhood memory of her father into an item that she could incorporate into her life. Think of what goes through her mind every time she listens to it or tells her friends the story.
