[sdiy] Harvesting Organs

[rkmoore at memphis.edu]

The easiest parts that I know of to harvest are the miniature leslies
speaker baffles (I pulled one out of an organ and placed it in an old
cabinet, a nice toy) and the swell pedals.  I like expression pedals for
control and the ones from organs are usually bullet-proof metal jobs
instead of the cruddy plastic ones that most places sell.  Some of the
organs have decent pedalboards, too.

I've never been too interested in the built-in rhythm machines or the
actual tone generating circuits of most electronic organs.  I know that
other people have played with these, though.

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: "DSL FODA01" <foda01 at epix.net>
Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:34 am
Subject: [sdiy] Harvesting Organs

> I was wondering what the consensus was about harvesting parts from 
> old home
> organs.  I have in storage an old (1970's?) "Holiday with Genie" 
> home organ
> that I can't seem to give away because nobody wants to transport 
> it away.
> Before I trash it, is there anything I can practically do with 
> organ parts
> to make something more synth-related?  I know it does have some 
> sort of
> rotating speaker thing, two keyboards, a cassette deck, but not 
> sure how
> much works.  Any ideas?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
>