Re: Small EMC antenna

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:53:28 -0700, Charlie Edmondson wrote:
Joerg wrote:
Charlie Edmondson wrote:
Joerg wrote:

Mucho thanks. i have barely started reading the manual and can see
why it was one of HP's last masterpieces. Reminds me of when i had
an opportunity to fiddle around trying to play a B3.

I can't play it (my wife can play some songs though) but I had the
"pleasure" to repair a M100. It had been totally neglected, played
for almost 10 years without oiling, shafts completely seized and
gummed up. After 20+ hours of hard work it's purring again but does
on occasion need three generator start attempts so it doesn't squeal.
The sad thing is that this organ came with half a can of Hammond oil.
But nobody had bothered to put it in there :-(

I sometimes wonder where my Hammond organ is (T3? It was the home
edition of the B3...) My parents got it for me back in the early
70's, but when I went to college, had no place to put it. Had it for
a while again in the 80's, but when I went back to get my Master's,
let my sister have it, and haven't spoken to her for almost 15 years.
It kept breaking keys, and it was a major hassle to replace them...

Maybe visit her?

AFAIK ours never broke any keys. It was bought by the original owner in
1961 and their daughter just kept playing it until shortly before she
passed away. It's amazing, this organ can fill the living room with a
sound that you think you are sitting in a cathedral. Rumors have it that
this sounds hasn't ever been imitated by electronics and that Paul
Shaffer paid a princely sum to have one restored. After having done such
a repair I know why restoration is so expensive.

Yeah, could be truly amazing when you started modulating the Leslie, and
started playing counter-tunes on the footboard!

But don't even know where my sister lives (and, since we moved to the
desert, we are now probably withing 10 miles of her!) We had a falling
out after our mom's death, and have barely spoken since.

If she has "anger issues", she was probably breaking the keys off
herself.

Good Luck!
Rich

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