Vintage Synth Repair

hello,

i left my magnus electric organ at a friend's house for a few weeks 
and when i brought it back home and tried to play it, it was totally 
jacked.  it powers on, but when you play the keys either a garbled 
note comes out or some evil static, or no sound at all.  i noticed 
some water stains on some of the keys so it looks like somebody may 
have spilled something on it.  i know absolutely nothing about 
electronics repair - can anybody help me out?  would cleaning it help 
or is it totally fubar?  

thanks,

tim

Those are just air organs. They don't use any electronics that I know 
of, other than AC to power the motor (am I right?). Perhaps something 
is obstructing the air path to the reeds, or the reeds are damaged. 
If a beer or coke was spilled on it, maybe the reeds are stuck? I bet 
cleaning would help. I'm not sure why there would be static.....
You didn't buy it on eBay from that person saying it was a Mellotron, 
did you? ;)
-Mike

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "majorairbro" 
<whitecatblackcat@h...> wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i left my magnus electric organ at a friend's house for a few weeks 
> and when i brought it back home and tried to play it, it was 
totally 
> jacked.  it powers on, but when you play the keys either a garbled 
> note comes out or some evil static, or no sound at all.  i noticed 
> some water stains on some of the keys so it looks like somebody may 
> have spilled something on it.  i know absolutely nothing about 
> electronics repair - can anybody help me out?  would cleaning it 
help 

> or is it totally fubar?  
> 
> thanks,
> 
> tim