[sdiy] Minimoog clone

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Tom,
Which Yamaha organ is that specifically?
Cheers,
D.

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 19:15, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net> wrote:
> I'd recommend the "cannibalize an organ" route to get a Minimoog keyboard. There are *loads* of cheap organs around (you'll get two 44-note keyboards for £10) and a lot of them are far better quality than modern ones. I have two that came out of one of those nasty post-tonewheel 1970's hammonds that are very substantial and easily wired as either a busbar contact or a matrix.
> The ones in the Yamaha organ that I still play have multiple contacts and busbars on the upper manual, and (IIRC) two contacts on the lower manual.
> The final point in favour of organ keyboards for me is that the action is an organ-style action - very light and fast, ideal for playing rapid synth riffs and cool moogy slides.
>
> Grab a a dead organ from your local Freecycle/Craigslist, and see what you can do with it. If it's no good, junk it and *then* buy a Fatar keybed!
>
> T.
>
>
>>>> The keyboard is also giving me a bit of trouble. I have an old organ I
>>>> could cannibalize, but I 'm also considering cannibilizing a cheap
>>>> midi keyboard and using a microcontroller to interface it to the
>>>> original keyboard circuitry.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I took apart a Roland pc200mk2 to clean out cat pee and found what I guess
>>> is a Fatar keybed.  As a quick and sloppy look, I think a metal bar could be
>>> laid across the PCB to get a bussed wiring scheme.
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Griffith
>>> dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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