AW: [sdiy] New toy

[Czech Martin]

I have one of these, too.
Awfull blower noise, and the keys are noisy too: klickediklack.
"cool feature" : chord knobs in minor and major ;->
perhaps not lofi, lowestfi.

m.c.

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: sasami at blaze.net.au [mailto:sasami at blaze.net.au]
> Gesendet: Montag, 22. Oktober 2001 15:11
> An: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Betreff: Re: [sdiy] New toy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Quoted bits from email by marjan
> >
> >You probably got a "hi-end" product of air-organ family... Hohner
> >and Bontempi (and some others) used to make lot these stuff.
> 
> A lot of home organs were done with reeds before electronics became a
> viability. This one is no-doubt on the cusp of the technologies. 
> One was used in the Siemens Studio For Electronic Music
> http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/siemens/index.html
> 
> >I have a couple of small keyboards like that, without amp.
> 
> The amplifier-less ones are common enough, simply called 
> "chord organs" over
> in Australia. My folks first organ was one.
> 
> >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.
> 
> There is a significant difference here - the air paths are 
> not controlled.
> 
> >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.
> 
> Worse than that - all the reeds are going the whole time - what a din!
> 
> >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...
> 
> The sound is pretty good actually, for a period instrument. 
> It doesn't sound
> like an accordian. Mind you with the reed box not propperly 
> insulated, it
> does make one hell of a racket!
> 
> I patched a 12v d.c. motor into it to try it out.
> 
> I've stuck a coupld of shocking pictures of the business end 
> of the thing on
> my synth web page http://198.164.142.50/~cgs/organ/
> 
> 
> Ken
> 
> >
> >marjan
> >
> >
> >me    : Marjan Urekar
> >e-mail: urekar.m at eunet.yu
> >s-diy : http://surf.to/marjansystems
> >music : http://go.to/forcemajeure
> >
> >
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