I like to take worthless old trash organs, if their cabinets and consoles are still in decent shape, and gut out all the "synthesis" hardware and turn them into MIDI controllers. Then I put a Raspberry Pi inside and run pipe organ synthesis software on it, wired up to the stops and all that sort of thing. The software is getting so freaking good. It's like having several different cathedral-sized masterpiece historical organs in your livingroom. O_O Although I don't think I'd bother with that one; I go after stuff that has full-size consoles and all 32 notes on the pedalboard. Stuff like the Allen T-12s or some of the big old tube-based Conn organs with real AGO sized pedalboards. A lot of them have REALLY sweet 6L6 power amplifiers and gyrophonic speakers (Hammond organ type tremelo) and stuff, too! Makes me a little sad inside to tear apart tube organs TBH, but they are nothing but sine or triangle wave generators internally (really easy to synthesize extremely accurately), and some of the diapason sounds rely on a carbon coated bar that the keys push on, that flakes into dust and is impossible to replace.
This is the comment I was looking for!!! I have a similar organ and was trying to add a 1/4 inch jack or an external input to midi for my synthesizers. Any idea where the best place to grab the signal from? I took the terminals off the speaker and connected it to speaker wire with a 1/4 inch jack and it's not cutting it. Any suggestions?
@@ethosannihilator Did you get anything working? i have a similar organ that is just too big and i'd love to take it apart and use it somehow like that
I would love to get my hand on one of these! I would hook it up to my scope and reverse engineer the whole thing and maybe even try some circuit bending with it
Rin...you could've made a lot more money from that organ by auctioning it on eBay. There's a lot of musicians looking for things like that. They will restore them both asthetically and mechanically.
Part of me wanted to see you save it, the other part of me wanted you to set it on fire with the rhythm function George McCrae-ing away. Just to see how long it lasted.
just picked one up how do you make sure the power supply is working also when after making sure power works i will indulge on a great journey of wiring because i see that some rats might have had there way in eating a lot of the wires ?????????????
I enjoyed watching this video! 🙂 I came across it whilst researching whether the top section can be separated from the upright section for this type of organ. I'm keen to get one, but slight dismantlement will be really beneficial for transit purposes. Could the organ featured in your video be split cleanly into 3 separate parts, without removing the circuitry and speaker hardware?
AMI was a juke box company , im not sure if thats the same as the chips in this unit but they are also connected to music devices ? i have a 1975 Thomas 3 tier trianion organ it was my grandfathers , he was a organist and many other things , my beat box just stopped working in it but everything els works and similar key static witch went away the more i played it and sprayed the back of key contacts with cleaner , my organ is so heavy omg its x3 of that organ and has a true Leslie rotor system in it and many switches and buttons ect , great video !
I just got a Kimball Pro Entertainer Organ for free. It has static in the volume foot pedal, and some of the instrument sounds don't work.. Can these organs be cleaned? What's the best way to clean them?
you could differently tear the Drumcomputer out and trigger the drums with an Arduino, then you have like a little MIDI Analog Drum Extender Sound Module.
There are people out there looking for cool organs like this so while you may like the parts, you could get a decent amount of money if you sold it. Even if you find these organs all the time, they are still worth something.
To the people saying she would have made more money selling this on ebay. In most areas of the US newer organs like this are very common, usually you can't even give them away. Go on craigslist and you'll see 10-20 "free if you can haul away" offerings for organs almost exactly like this one.
@@t55a2 they are fun to play with, but sometimes reality has to take over. better seeing it get used for parts later on than being thrown in the dump whole.
Maybe you should team up with Sam Battle, from Look Mum No Computer www.lookmumnocomputer.com/ He makes something beautiful of everything that makes sound electronically.
Well the older ones used a Hella lota wiring harnesses the older the better soon as the new digital type ones came around the manufactures said well you know since our organ is digital we have no need for massive amounts of wires
Surface mounting it to a 4x8 sheet of cardboard in the Knolling style would make an interesting art installation.
Your destructive ability is strangely mesmerizing
I like to take worthless old trash organs, if their cabinets and consoles are still in decent shape, and gut out all the "synthesis" hardware and turn them into MIDI controllers. Then I put a Raspberry Pi inside and run pipe organ synthesis software on it, wired up to the stops and all that sort of thing. The software is getting so freaking good. It's like having several different cathedral-sized masterpiece historical organs in your livingroom. O_O
Although I don't think I'd bother with that one; I go after stuff that has full-size consoles and all 32 notes on the pedalboard. Stuff like the Allen T-12s or some of the big old tube-based Conn organs with real AGO sized pedalboards. A lot of them have REALLY sweet 6L6 power amplifiers and gyrophonic speakers (Hammond organ type tremelo) and stuff, too!
Makes me a little sad inside to tear apart tube organs TBH, but they are nothing but sine or triangle wave generators internally (really easy to synthesize extremely accurately), and some of the diapason sounds rely on a carbon coated bar that the keys push on, that flakes into dust and is impossible to replace.
This is the comment I was looking for!!! I have a similar organ and was trying to add a 1/4 inch jack or an external input to midi for my synthesizers. Any idea where the best place to grab the signal from? I took the terminals off the speaker and connected it to speaker wire with a 1/4 inch jack and it's not cutting it. Any suggestions?
@@ethosannihilator Did you get anything working? i have a similar organ that is just too big and i'd love to take it apart and use it somehow like that
@@sundersquare I didn't, I got busy and abandoned it for other projects.
I can just see you doing something crazy like one of Sam's imvention aka (LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER), well we will have to wait I guess :)
i like sams work too
I would love to get my hand on one of these! I would hook it up to my scope and reverse engineer the whole thing and maybe even try some circuit bending with it
Rin...you could've made a lot more money from that organ by auctioning it on eBay. There's a lot of musicians looking for things like that. They will restore them both asthetically and mechanically.
Not worth anything, really. Most of these are dreadful.
no thats for hammond read organs
@@RinoaL true...but most musicians would be happy to have any organ. (No pun intended).
@@briandklinger But then we wouldn't get to enjoy this amazing video.
Selling organs on eBay seems a bit ominous.
Kimball was a very good Organ Company, did a lot with Pipe Organ, s too !
Just restored a wurlitzer 555. It sounds great.
Back to the 80 love it
Part of me wanted to see you save it, the other part of me wanted you to set it on fire with the rhythm function George McCrae-ing away. Just to see how long it lasted.
Mandela effect or did I already see this thing smashed with a hammer last week?
you did but it was only 3 minutes of it in my cleaning video
I wait for part 2 :)
Just found this same organ yesterday in the dump at a thrift store. Speakers look great.
Imagine tearing down an organ that still works fine!
Have to in order to save them from the landfill
Interesting 👍
just picked one up how do you make sure the power supply is working also when after making sure power works i will indulge on a great journey of wiring because i see that some rats might have had there way in eating a lot of the wires ?????????????
I enjoyed watching this video! 🙂
I came across it whilst researching whether the top section can be separated from the upright section for this type of organ.
I'm keen to get one, but slight dismantlement will be really beneficial for transit purposes.
Could the organ featured in your video be split cleanly into 3 separate parts, without removing the circuitry and speaker hardware?
Yeah I think that could be done if you're ok with moving a few circuits.
AMI was a juke box company , im not sure if thats the same as the chips in this unit but they are also connected to music devices ? i have a 1975 Thomas 3 tier trianion organ it was my grandfathers , he was a organist and many other things , my beat box just stopped working in it but everything els works and similar key static witch went away the more i played it and sprayed the back of key contacts with cleaner , my organ is so heavy omg its x3 of that organ and has a true Leslie rotor system in it and many switches and buttons ect , great video !
My parents had one of those when I was growing up!
Hey Ri, what has developed with your Hammond organ? I have one just like yours.
nothing yet, its stored in the shed.
Expensive piece in its day
I just got a Kimball Pro Entertainer Organ for free. It has static in the volume foot pedal, and some of the instrument sounds don't work.. Can these organs be cleaned? What's the best way to clean them?
You'll have to clean the contacts inside, they are everywhere tbh.
Deoxit
does anyone know how to add a line in to this to be able to send music to speaker
you could differently tear the Drumcomputer out and trigger the drums with an Arduino, then you have like a little MIDI Analog Drum Extender Sound Module.
On Organ list, SWINGER 400 is circa 1975 (not listed but similiar ones are)
There are people out there looking for cool organs like this so while you may like the parts, you could get a decent amount of money if you sold it. Even if you find these organs all the time, they are still worth something.
no i couldnt
Maybe that spring thing is some delay line memory.
My grandparents had one of these. That one in the video looks pretty toasted....
Are the speakers 8 ohms ?
Probably it's a pretty decent size speaker the wattage I dunno probably about 30 watts max
did you ever do anything with the guts
Not yet
you found the easter egg! lol :P
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That must be very fresh now.
use Arduino controller hooked to Foot Pedals to convert them to MIDI. oops wnt onto the burn pile, could have used those foot pedals
you most definitly need a new power supply if on is off and off is on.... or so we think thats what it could be.......
No its down to them wiring it that way
I used to work for Hammond Organ years ago
Maybe you know the secrets into making a good tone wheel organ
19:50 thats what happens when you try to lobotomize vintage electronics
This had to be expensive
To the people saying she would have made more money selling this on ebay. In most areas of the US newer organs like this are very common, usually you can't even give them away. Go on craigslist and you'll see 10-20 "free if you can haul away" offerings for organs almost exactly like this one.
Totally, eBay is full of these 'rare' organs, mostly dreadful. Nice through fx but really not much else to commend.
@@t55a2 they seem awesome to me.
@@t55a2 they are fun to play with, but sometimes reality has to take over. better seeing it get used for parts later on than being thrown in the dump whole.
@@Gagesvids1 Totally, enough landfill as it is
Maybe you should team up with Sam Battle, from Look Mum No Computer
www.lookmumnocomputer.com/
He makes something beautiful of everything that makes sound electronically.
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Why do you do this to this beauti
Why do I save them from the trash? Because they have part worth saving.
Stop burning things!!!!
your too nice to be using the f word
its a nice word.
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They use on hell of a wiring harness on the thing. LOL. Plenty of jumper wire there.
Well the older ones used a Hella lota wiring harnesses the older the better soon as the new digital type ones came around the manufactures said well you know since our organ is digital we have no need for massive amounts of wires