Wurlie tricks / mods ?

[Haible Juergen]

Hi!

Seems that another dream of mine will come true: tonight I'll get a 
Wurlitzer. Electronics are
quite dead, but mechanically it is said to be perfect.
I have the service manual, so I am pretty sure I can revive the 
electronics, and if not, I'll build
something from scratch.
As this will be my first electromechanical e-piano, I have a few 
questions to all who own
a wurlie, or even better, have already done repairs on it:

(1) 	As I was told, the typical distortion at hard playing comes from 
the mechanical parts only, so
      I wouldn't loose anything, if I built a "modern" replacement for 
the electronics, would I ?
(2) 	In case I keep / fix the original circuit, are there any 
interesting mods?
(3) 	Does an enhancement of the electronics in terms of noise etc. 
make any sense at all, or is
      the capacitive pickup system the main source of noise ?

Sure there are more questions to come ... any hints / tips / tricks 
highly welcome !

JH.