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Old 20th Jan 2018, 1:01 am   #1
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Default Miller Organs from Norwich

I'll strike up a thread in the hope of gathering comments and info on Miller Organs "from Norwich" (given that the US has a pipe organ manufacturer of the same name).

In particular someone may have service manuals or schematics of the transistor based models, as there is a Norwich T model in Australia that is in excellent condition but could well do with a service sweep through. But in addition, it would be amazing to identify any documentation related to the early years of Miller Organs, including on valve based models.

Unfortunately the present Norwich Organs entity have no records of Miller Organ Company sales, and Millers ceased to build organs in Norwich during the early 70's, and production under different owners finished a couple of years later. Early company paperwork doesn't appear to have been retained during stressful times, as the original company went into liquidation in the middle 60's. And there seem to be a few strange stories on-line of later owners.

Many will recall Lucien's amazing thread on a very hectic and edge-of-chair 5 day restoration and relocation of a Miller Classic IV, culminating in a recital. https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=121108

The Norwich T model I've seen has a similar english oak frame, but with stops grouped on the sides, and all the electronics are now sandwiched in to the rear. The only 'documentation' surviving with this organ is a spare parts note, which lists 4 transistor based models.

It appears that there was an international sales effort starting 1951 in to british commonwealth (or at least military administered) regions, as many Australian newspapers ran the same storyline in mid 1951, and that continued a bit with an article on 'silent teaching'.

This link shows a 1952 advert in the Musical Times journal.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/935223?...n_tab_contents

Ciao, Tim
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