31-01-2023, 07:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 31-01-2023, 07:35 PM by Lucien Nunes.)
It's a shed full of stuff, with six whirring motors, 72 generators producing 1272 waveforms, 924 relays of between 10 and 21 poles each, 84 valves etc. But you could do it all much, much better with a PC and a decent multi-channel soundcard and amplifiers sat in the back of the console. That's one of the problems with collecting vintage analogue organs. Vintage HiFi is expensive but produces results reasonably comparable to modern. Vintage radios don't produce comparable performance but they are cheap and easy and fun to work on. Vintage organs are incredibly hard work and produce generally inferior results. The interest has to come very much from the historical angle. There's no difference to the user interface (console) whether what's in the shed is a PC or that behemoth of a generator setup, but from the resulting sound the PC is 5000% better. I get annoyed that historically important analogues are gutted and turned into digitals, because my interest is indeed from the history side. If you just want to play music, it's a no-brainer.
I mean, not only has the generator installation got rows of shelves for spares, hooks to hang popular tools and test leads, and patchable monitor speakers on the wall so you can hear what you are achieving as you work, there's a clock so that you can keep track of the hours of your life ticking away as you tweak the voicing, oil the generators, clean the relay contacts... What sensible human would do that?
I mean, not only has the generator installation got rows of shelves for spares, hooks to hang popular tools and test leads, and patchable monitor speakers on the wall so you can hear what you are achieving as you work, there's a clock so that you can keep track of the hours of your life ticking away as you tweak the voicing, oil the generators, clean the relay contacts... What sensible human would do that?
