[sdiy] Project Thomas Orgasynth

[R. D. Davis]

Quothe Ken Stone, from writings of Sat, May 13, 2006 at 03:13:37PM +1000:
> All a Thomas color glow is, is a flourescent tube positioned below each 
> keyboard, with the plastic thinner under each key, with the letter of each
> key molded in.
  
Heh, I can't wait to see what condition the fluorescent tubes are in,
given the condition of everything else in that organ... let's see if I
can remove them without them breaking.
  
> Not very exciting.

No, but I guessed it was going to be something dull and boring like
that, having removed the ballasts for two fluorescent lights.  Ah  
well... it was nice to at least think about the possibility of a   
multi-colored psychadelic keyboard with keys lighting up in various
patterns... and black light for the black keys... looks like I'll just
have to purchase a black light to hang over the Orgasynth... maybe
some sort of rotating black light to go with the sound from the
Leslie.

A bigger disappointment was the Leslie.  The rotating horn is made
of... styrofoam!  The Leslie's speaker needs to be replaced with a
better quality speaker as well, but I wonder if the styrofoam horn can
withstand something like a speaker capable of handling much more
power, with a higher and lower frequency response as well, like a 6"
coaxial speaker.  Then there's that thick cloth-like sound-absorbent
material, many layers of it, behind the Leslie; anyone know what
that's made of?  It's disintegrating.  Not some sort of asbestos, is
it?  There was a piece of paper on the back of the Leslie that
appeared to give a good bit of information about it, but most of it
was torn up and is missing.

Robert

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