Show me your organ!
- Dave
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Re: Show me your organ!
That looks sweet man, I love the control layout and look of it. What do the first 3 switches do?
- UlricvonCatalyst
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They're labelled Vibrato (self-evident), Vibrato Full (Vibrato up to 11) and Higher Forte (Volume up to 11). The Vibrato Full and Higher Forte switches had a subtle effect at best before I dropped it off with my pal.
He's serviced it and all the keys are now working, which is great news. He's going to try it out with his band tonight to see how stable the tuning is in their "freezing" rehearsal space.
He's serviced it and all the keys are now working, which is great news. He's going to try it out with his band tonight to see how stable the tuning is in their "freezing" rehearsal space.
- livinlavidaloca
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Ok I had time to check now ... mine is a GM752 (German model) and indeed, the legs pull straight out. Thanks sooo much for the tip!nssn wrote:I wish I could check this but the philli is about 900Km away...livinlavidaloca wrote: Yeah I think I have the same model as you ... do German control markings (Lautstärke insted of Volume) indicate mine is a GM752 too? All I know is when I first got it I tried to take it apart to take out the legs but I couldn't even take it apart for some reason ...
The legs weren't easy to pull out. The organ is quite heavy resting down on those legs for quite some years. So it requires some efford.
- we_squirm
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Although I don't have a picture of it, I just picked up a Yamaha YC-20 Organ from a local shop. It's the really nice off-white colour, and it sounds amazing!
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Whatever happened to Orang Goreng...?
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He is lurking in the bushes. I just finished several months of 12 hours of work on an average day. This morning I was woken up by the cat at 11 instead of by a catholic propaganda channel at 7:44. Life is temporarily good.
I also went to the recent midlife crisis realisation that more gear than the bare essentials is overkill and nothing more than a recipe for misery and disaster, although I cannot bring myself to reduction at this point. Non-expansion will have to do for now, and cool telephoto lenses are exempt . But who knows, perhaps eventually I'll have just one bass, one guitar, and one giant midi keyboard.
I also went to the recent midlife crisis realisation that more gear than the bare essentials is overkill and nothing more than a recipe for misery and disaster, although I cannot bring myself to reduction at this point. Non-expansion will have to do for now, and cool telephoto lenses are exempt . But who knows, perhaps eventually I'll have just one bass, one guitar, and one giant midi keyboard.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man's a freak.
- UlricvonCatalyst
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Better still: imagine no possessions. But if you must have only 3 at least make one a proper organ!
- UlricvonCatalyst
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By the way, my organ has now been fully serviced and is said to be working well. Haven't actually had my mitts on it yet, but I may well go and collect it in the next week or so as I think it's high time I did some recording.
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This is my Yamaha YC-20.
- UlricvonCatalyst
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Looks beautiful. I am so jealous of anyone with a keyboard with reversed-colour keys!
- Dave
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Yeah, I've often wondered if it would be easy to remove and spray paint all the keys (not just bass section) of my Farfisa to reverse, just looks so much cooler. I know it would de-value the hell out of it, but i truly don't ever plan on letting it go. I'd have a hard time remembering where the bass ends though, I'm no organist!UlricvonCatalyst wrote:Looks beautiful. I am so jealous of anyone with a keyboard with reversed-colour keys!
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Re: Show me your organ!
My dad just got me this:
There's some pops and noise here and there. Actually it's bit noisy, I'm guessing the old capacitors of the amp are long gone.
My dad says it's got two speakers (10" or 12") and a tweeter, maybe 6" or 8". It does sound deep. At 70-80w it's not as loud as I thought it'd be.
Still learning how to get sounds from it - which switches should I push to make sound and so on... and the drum and accompanient sounds are so much fun.
Oh, what's the "expression" pedal supposed to do. It does nothing, although I remember it doing something at the store.
This one's a Viscount M70 Intercontinental.
There's some pops and noise here and there. Actually it's bit noisy, I'm guessing the old capacitors of the amp are long gone.
My dad says it's got two speakers (10" or 12") and a tweeter, maybe 6" or 8". It does sound deep. At 70-80w it's not as loud as I thought it'd be.
Still learning how to get sounds from it - which switches should I push to make sound and so on... and the drum and accompanient sounds are so much fun.
Oh, what's the "expression" pedal supposed to do. It does nothing, although I remember it doing something at the store.
This one's a Viscount M70 Intercontinental.
- fibreman
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Re: Show me your organ!
Usually the expression pedal is a volume control, for volume swells and such.
- jrjoe21
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Re: Show me your organ!
Here's Mine...
It's a Hammond H-382, no B3 but it does have tonewheels.
Gonna finish up restoring it this month ... want to bring it to the practice space before Winter...
It's a Hammond H-382, no B3 but it does have tonewheels.
Gonna finish up restoring it this month ... want to bring it to the practice space before Winter...