[sdiy] Manuals from old Silvertone organ

[CCartCat at aol.com]

I have the upper & lower manuals unit out of what was an already partly 
scavenged Sears Silvertone organ.  It's gone untouched for awhile now and 
thought someone here could give it a better home--like say in some cool DIY 
project(s).  

Anyone able/willing to drive to or meet near the New Bedford MA USA area can 
have it.

Details/caveats:  

--The two manuals are together mounted on a plywood panel base.  My cursory 
unschooled look at it:  some damage to the contact mechanism at one end of 
the upper manual, 3 stuck keys in the lower.  

--What seem to oscillator circuit boards are mounted along the back edge on 
the panel base.  12 of those,  3 assigned to the same 3 chromatic notes (3 of 
"A# B C" etc.).   Each has an adjustable coil.  One of the boards is 
busted--sorry, but I should still have the coil in case you were so ambitious 
as to reconstuct the board. <g>

--Some other hardware/gew gaws about which I cannot reliably comment:  2 
banks of 6 rocker switches, 4 transformers.

--If you want it, Sat Dec. 28th (tomorrow) and Monday the 30th would be good 
days for me.  Otherwise, it'd have to wait till mid-January.  I only offering 
this now on the off chance someone can take it sooner than that.

Please write offlist if you're interested/comment onlist if you have any 
observations to share (like "wow", "neato" or perhaps "good lord, man, that 
thing's of no use to anyone . . . just put in a dumpster").

Back to lurking now,
Kevin Seward