Mellotronists

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

--- Mattias <Mattias.olsson5@...> wrote:
> I love the Orchestron...It\ufffds a close second to the
> Mellotron in my studio. There is something truly
> magical about those choirs and strings...The french
> horn on the other sounds a bit like it\ufffds played
> inside a submarine by someone with a terrible cold
> miked from the surface...I have used it though...!
> 
> On my Optigan the autokomp buttons have died...sort
> of. They all play at once creating kind of  a Tom
> Waits vibe...
> I have to fix them some day...Now I just I play the
> discs in the Orchestron...
> 
> Are the Birotron sounds different recordings than
> the Mellotron sounds ? Would it be possible to
> transfer them to tape...or maybe even optical discs
> ?
> 
> // Mattias
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
> 
>   From: fdoddy@... 
>   To: mellotronists@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 8:04 PM
>   Subject: [Mellotronists] Fwd: Love, twue love
> 
> 
> 
> 
>       I love the sound of the Orchestron (seriously)
> Missed out on a dual 
>   manual model that was on Ebay a few years back. If
> anyone ever needs a 
>   home for one, I got it 
>    
>   I do have an Optigan that is non-functioning pile
> of scrap... 
>    
>   Fritz 
>    
> 
>       
> 
> 
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