Mellotronists

On 28 Apr 2005, at 22:50, Jack Younger wrote:

> Greetings,
>      The buttons on the optigan have a rubber sheet
> over them to protect them from dust.  It decays,
> fragments over time and pieces of it get stuck between
> the contacts.  Open the top panel and disassemble the
> button assembly.  It will be orange (the same color as
> a Hot Wheels track strip, ahhhh, Mattel).  Remove the
> sheet (or what's left of it), clean out any leftover
> chunks and wipe the contacts down with contact
> cleaner.  Now they should work.  Please disregard if
> this is old news to you.
> -Jack Younger, former optigan owner and current 'tron
> owner

Thanks for that!

I loved your beer.

The same is slowly happening to mine. I thought the only way out would 
be to coax every button into life with deft prodding and then sample 
the loop!
>
> --- Mattias <Mattias.olsson5@...> wrote:
>>
>> On my Optigan the autokomp buttons have died...sort
>> of. They all play at once creating kind of  a Tom
>> Waits vibe...

Surely *everything* played on an Optigan sounds like Tom Waits?

Cx

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