[sdiy] where to buy keyboards?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 14 August 2008 21:49, Bryce Lanham wrote:
> Yeah, I'm thinking of going with an organ keyboard as well. Does
> anyone know if the typical organ has a two bus keyboard?

I used to work on organs,  a *lot* of them,  years ago.

Typically for a two-manual spinet (44-key) the lower manual will have two or 
possibly three buses,  the upper will have more.  Depends on how many 
different voicings it has.  Lower manuals are typically 8' and 4' only,  
while uppers might have 2', 1', and maybe some others in between,  or even 
16'...

Depends on the organ,  too.  The stuff I'm mostly familiar with either used 
the keyboards to key the tones directly,  or they used them to control some 
kind of an electronic keyer circuit.  Later stuff (around the time I got out 
of it) was all microprocessor-based,  and that's a whole 'nother setup.

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