On 28 Apr 2005, at 22:50, Jack Younger wrote:
> Greetings,
> The buttons on the optigan have a rubber sheet
> over them to protect them from dust. It decays,
> fragments over time and pieces of it get stuck between
> the contacts. Open the top panel and disassemble the
> button assembly. It will be orange (the same color as
> a Hot Wheels track strip, ahhhh, Mattel). Remove the
> sheet (or what's left of it), clean out any leftover
> chunks and wipe the contacts down with contact
> cleaner. Now they should work. Please disregard if
> this is old news to you.
> -Jack Younger, former optigan owner and current 'tron
> owner
Thanks for that!
I loved your beer.
The same is slowly happening to mine. I thought the only way out would
be to coax every button into life with deft prodding and then sample
the loop!
>
> --- Mattias <Mattias.olsson5@...> wrote:
>>
>> On my Optigan the autokomp buttons have died...sort
>> of. They all play at once creating kind of a Tom
>> Waits vibe...
Surely ∗everything∗ played on an Optigan sounds like Tom Waits?
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