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29th Mar 2015, 9:58 am | #41 |
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Re: Electronic (valve) home organ Restoration
Any more progress as of yet Lucien?
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29th Mar 2015, 10:48 am | #42 |
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Re: Electronic (valve) home organ Restoration
I expect the Ally Pally TX has sidelined other stuff......
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29th Mar 2015, 1:10 pm | #43 |
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Re: Electronic (valve) home organ Restoration
No, sorry, the organ is sitting here in the workshop poised for action but time has been a bit tricky recently. Not only as Herald says with the transmitter recovery but also 'proper' work being busy at the moment - 7 day weeks and 16 hour days - which limit restorations to the early hours of the morning.
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29th Jul 2015, 2:20 pm | #44 |
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Re: Electronic (valve) home organ Restoration
Hi Lucien,
Didn't want to seem like I was nagging but just thought I'd ask if you had made any progress on the organ? I have since picked up a twin manual complete with bass pedals home entertainments organ made by Sidney S Bird of Poole Dorset, it uses neon lamps in the dividers and valves in the master oscillators, vibrato and amplification. It works a bit but needs lots doing. All the best
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29th Jul 2015, 2:52 pm | #45 |
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Re: Electronic (valve) home organ Restoration
I serviced a few Bird organs years ago.
The sound was distinctive as the dividers gave sawtooth waves instead of the usual square waves. The neon dividers gave many problems if I recall.
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31st Jul 2015, 7:26 pm | #46 |
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Re: Electronic (valve) home organ Restoration
Hi, sorry about my extended absence again - as I've related in the members news thread things got a bit heavy-going and I had to duck out of all vintage activities for a while. The organ is still here but under wraps and has not been touched by screwdriver or iron since I last posted. Hopefully I can pick up all these things where I left off, now that the hellish work pressure has abated.
The idea of starting out with a nice simple little restoration to write a thread about, before tacking one of the larger instruments, was rather spectacularly eclipsed a few weeks ago. As part of a larger project, I was commissioned to bring back to life and present to an audience, in just a few days, a rare and fascinating instrument at the other end of the scale. 348 oscillators using 172 ECC82s, and more out-of-spec paper caps that you can shake a stick at, made for an interesting experience. But that is the subject of another thread and I will return to the little Burge any time now. I have never played or worked on a Bird. We do however have a neon divider organ, a little Hohner spinet, that could be the subject of another thread soon. |