Yes! Of course! Your memory banks are clearer than mine old bean.
I now remember the very situation...perhaps even down to the ornaments on the wall at 163. We were pioneers in this recording technique featuring poor (ex)schoolboys with no farthings to clink together to purchase digital samplers or even invent them, so turning to everyday household kitchen objects as substitute.
Kidz today.....they don't even know they're born some of em.