[sdiy] Improvement to a Viscount cathedral organ

Gil W. gil_we at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 22 19:49:17 CET 2007


I had the chance to get one of these for quite cheap:
http://www.france-orgue.fr/img_org/vis_cl40.jpg
http://www.marktplaats.nl/index.php?url=http%3A//muziek.marktplaats.nl/orgels/133086555-viscount-cl-40-orgel-cathedral.html%3Fxref%3D1

It's an electric church organ. Sound is not that
impressive, but it's really a nice organ for basic
church style playing.

I've fixed a few contact problems and refinished the
wood (looks beautiful now...) but still there are a
few problems to be solved:

1. The lamp in the swell pedal doesn't light up. There
are 16v going into it. Are these bulbs easy to find ?

2. The low C# bass pedal doesn't play the '8 Gedeckt
and '8 Regal registers. The two '16 registers play
fine. Anything to do with bad dividers ? All other '8
registers (lower and upper manual) and '8 bass notes
play fine. 

3. The speakers distorts when playing the bass pedals.
Should I try better ones ?

4. Reverb units is built on this organ in a way that
it's held in space instead of being mounted to the
wood. Could I improve the Reverb sound just by
relocating it and mounting to one of the organ panels
?

5. Any other cool mods to improve sound ? Maybe better
speakers ?


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