[sdiy] Top octave practices in old organs

[cheater00 .]

Hi John,
I believe that's normal. That's what I've seen in Hammonds and Electones.

Cheers,
D.

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 6:06 PM, John Speth <jspeth at avnera.com> wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I just wrapped up the cleaning and restoration of a 1973 Wurlitzer
> Funmaker Organ.  In trying to determine if it's all working properly, I
> have some doubt about the upper keyboard top octave.
>
> There are three pipe settings: 4', 8', and 16'.  I found that the 4' and
> 8' pipes are missing from top C.  In the complete C-B flat octave below
> top C, the 4' pipe is missing.  It's almost as if the it was designed that
> way but I don't know that for sure.  Is that a common design practice from
> the era to deal with the lack of very high pipe frequencies?  Or does my
> organ have a subtle problem that I need to fix?
>
> JJS
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