[sdiy] New toy

[>>>marjan<<<]

You probably got a "hi-end" product of air-organ family... Hohner
and Bontempi (and some others) used to make lot these stuff.
I have a couple of small keyboards like that, without amp.
Basically, they were cross between melodicca (mouth organ) and
accordion. They manufactured those also, so for mainly younger
users they made lite version of an accordion, mouth organ,
with few keys, and air source was blowing, next step was to
house it from handheld to keyboard type, with simple motor
acting like fan which blows air thru reeds and you open them
with keys. They all have that distinct sound, crappy accordion
like. We used lot of melodiccas as kids here, it's just that
sound. Problem is that motor works all the time and when you're
not playing it's hum is prominent and annoying. That's probably
why they have "shielded" motor in that way in your organ, to
minimise the hum, esp they are using amp. Plain air organs are
impossible to be mic'ed as the motor spoils all the audio.
I must say that I have never heard that they went so far with
that concept (having a real organ like that). So they used to
wire them with electrostatic pickup? Crappy design needs such
solutions. Erm, don't expect lush sounds from it, I wouldn't
bother replacing the motor, keep the amp and use the keboard
for something better. Unless it's valuable, but I doubt...


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