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Wurlitzer Hiss

Wurlitzer Hiss

2004-10-29 by John Brewer

Hello Brian.
I have not worked on Wurlitzers but I was interested in your problem.
OK, so the fault is common to both manuals but not pedals. How is the manual keying done on a 630. Is it done by diode switching? The first thing I would do is look around the keyboard and find the source of the keying voltage. From your description I would say the noise is on there. Just another thought. Wurlitzer???? Immitation theatre organ??? Does it have any kind of Brush/cymbal white noise generator in the organ. These trigger from the keyboards and if not set correctly can give a continuous noise rather than a brief pulse. Some white noise is also added to snare drums.
As you have the drawings, you should be able to locate which section of the organ is sending this noise to the pre amp.
Good luck. Let me know how you get on.
JohnB

RE: [vintagesynthrepair] Wurlitzer Hiss

2004-10-29 by Brian Davies

Many thanks for the ideas John \u2013 I shall certainly take a look around the cct and will certainly let you know how I get on.

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: John Brewer [mailto:john@...]
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:59 AM
To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vintagesynthrepair] Wurlitzer Hiss

Hello Brian.

I have not worked on Wurlitzers but I was interested in your problem.

OK, so the fault is common to both manuals but not pedals. How is the manual keying done on a 630. Is it done by diode switching? The first thing I would do is look around the keyboard and find the source of the keying voltage. From your description I would say the noise is on there. Just another thought. Wurlitzer???? Immitation theatre organ??? Does it have any kind of Brush/cymbal white noise generator in the organ. These trigger from the keyboards and if not set correctly can give a continuous noise rather than a brief pulse. Some white noise is also added to snare drums.

As you have the drawings, you should be able to locate which section of the organ is sending this noise to the pre amp.

Good luck. Let me know how you get on.

JohnB



RE: [vintagesynthrepair] Wurlitzer Hiss

2004-10-29 by timothy kosiorek

Hello Brian:Look for a bad or leaky capacitor in the keying circuit,I 
haven't seen this problem in a Wurlitzer, but I have seen it in other brands 
of older organs made around the time of this Wurlitzer.
Tim K.

>From: "Brian Davies" <briang3oyu@...>
>Reply-To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
>To: <vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: RE: [vintagesynthrepair] Wurlitzer Hiss
>Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:36:11 +0100
>
>Many thanks for the ideas John \ufffd I shall certainly take a look around the
>cct  and will certainly let you know how I get on.
>
>Brian
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Brewer [mailto:john@...]
>Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:59 AM
>To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [vintagesynthrepair] Wurlitzer Hiss
>
>Hello Brian.
>I have not worked on Wurlitzers but I was interested in your problem.
>OK, so the fault is common to both manuals but not pedals. How is the 
>manual
>keying done on a 630.  Is it done by diode switching?  The first thing I
>would do is look around the keyboard and find the source of the keying
>voltage. From your description I would say the noise is on there.  Just
>another thought. Wurlitzer???? Immitation theatre organ??? Does it have any
>kind of Brush/cymbal white noise generator in the organ.  These trigger 
>from
>the keyboards and if not set correctly can give a continuous noise rather
>than a brief pulse. Some white noise is also added to snare drums.
>As you have the drawings, you should be able to locate which section of the
>organ is sending this noise to the pre amp.
>Good luck. Let me know how you get on.
>JohnB
>
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