"Maybe the other keyboard belonged to the Sons of Champlin, who opened."

Hadn't thought of this, but it's the most likely explanation. I believe 
the Sons used a Hammond B-3? 

Listening to the surviving portions of 10/24 and 10/26, there is also 
no trace of Pigpen on organ - just TC on his Vox.  So it seems the 
Sons' crew may just have left their keyboard out. (Possibly Pigpen 
COULD have played on it if he'd wanted to...) 

I'll sadly toss out the two-keyboards theory! 

That still leaves the mystery of Lesh & McNally's statements that 
Pigpen's organ was repossessed from the stage in fall '69. My guess 
is that Lesh is remembering the same incident that Constanten 
refers to, but assigned it to the wrong year - it only happened 
in fall '68.

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