1972 Kimball Console Electric Home Organ with Leslie Speaker Resurrection

repairing vintage solid state home organ form 1972 step by step diagnosis and repair of kimball organ we saved from the dump.
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[@CheezyDee]

You now have a camera, an organ, and at least a part time organ player, now all you need is a choir and you'll have a complete televangelist starter kit.

[@Elfnetdesigns]

He got the boiled corn vendor to play backup bicycle horn too

[@BWBlues]

I have worked on dozens of this model. When I started organ repair for a Kimball dealer in 1976 there were lots of them around. Cleaning contacts and board connectors was very common. Expression pots, divider ICs, and the chord circuits were the weakest. I gave up on Kimball when the plastic circuit board connectors started breaking apart. I'm surprised that they are still usable especially the horizontal boards that put pressure on the plastic connector. Jump 45 years to today and the only organs with any interest is tonewheel Hammonds which I still service.

[@FailureOpensDoors]

Hey expert! I have Kimball Temptation (?) And I can't figure out how to get the lid open. It seems like I'm slowly ripping the cabinet apart instead of just popping out of a spring/friction clasp/latch. Is there a lock, screw, or latch I am not seeing? Can you possibly give me a pointer?

[@ElectronicInspiration]

@@FailureOpensDoors probably a bit late, but there is a small metal tab on the right top side of the back. Unscrew that and while pulling on it, the lid should lift up

[@FailureOpensDoors]

@@ElectronicInspiration i wil try this in the morning and report back.

[@Clyde_Lewis]

I remember my Dad servicing these back in the 70s, and they had recall/returns on the plastic parts so much at one time, I remember him saying it was almost impossible to address the number of returns the factory sent him. I now have a Hammond A-105 instead. 🙂

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

It might not be worth anything to most people today but I can appreciate the design and complexity of this analog beast. Far more complicated than my Korg PolySix is.

[@KOVintageTech]

I chuckled. This running up and down the keys over and over was JUST LIKE Shango’s tuning up and down the radio dial. He did not disappoint.

[@neutrodyne]

Back in the day (1970s and 80s) I was actually an authorized Kimbel repair man. I worked on a lot of the Kinbel Swingers organs. They were terrible then and they are even more terrible now.

[@mrbyamile6973]

I enjoyed this, stuck through to the end despite not having an interest in musical instruments. The troubleshooting method was great. My Grandmother had possibly this same model, nobody wanted it after she passed away and I don't think it was functional at that point. If I knew it had a fun amp, reverb and that Leslie speaker I might have taken it despite not having room for it.

[@Foxonian]

My uncle had that exact same Kimball organ! Used to play it as a kid whenever I visited him in the 70's. It was a ton of fun when you were only 8 years old.

[@michaeljohn9263]

I had a friend back in the late 80s whos parents use to have the exact same organ and that bracket was 100% for a cassette deck. You could record what you were playing on to it or play a tape and add organ to the song. We use to use it for just playing tapes because the thing POUNDED!! What a trip seeing this thing after 30+ years 😀

[@barovelli]

20:33 !!! It's a Monterey Peninsula College electronics fabrication class signal tracer! I built one of those back in the late 70s. Had to expose and etch the PCB, assemble the board and probe, cut and bend the cabinet, every little bit was hand made. Great to see one.

[@ronaldspencer547]

It's amazing when you think about it how many applications these have. Chapel, Church, ball park, silent movie theater, soap operas, funeral home, etc.

[@darikdatta]

Nothing like shango's loving touch to make an old organ feel young again.

[@billmyke746]

Clever!

[@DeadKoby]

There's so much "Stuff" in these Organs. This was quite the challenge. It's always interesting when you find someone who can really play these. Organs are really a lost art.......but yet sometimes they still fit in cool music.

[@burlatsdemontaigne6147]

You want to see the inside of a Mellotron. Even more "stuff"!

[@markwisneski6024]

I have a Kimball 700 series organ that my parents had bought new in the late 70s or early 80s. The switch lever underneath is a tremolo lever that is used to bend the notes. You adjust the lever underneath so that you can active it by hitting it with the side of your knee. My organ has a Hawaiian guitar stop. The knee lever is useful when playing "The Hawaiian Wedding Song" or "The Aloha Song".

[@emmarossignol4445]

I have a Kimball 300 that also has the lever, unfortunately I can't seem to get the bass pedals to do anything.

[@krz8888888]

Love these from an analog electronics standpoint, complex devices and a thinkerer's dream

[@shawnstthomas4811]

My grandparents had one. I used to drive them nuts banging away on it when I was a young lad. Those colors are what i remember. Thats where I learned how to play.. I still suck.. Nice job!

[@1marcelfilms]

I only remember my mother telling me how grandpa would play and i would cry as a baby

[@tarstarkusz]

I'll bet this thing was a fortune when it was new. This entire organ could be reproduced today on a single chip for 99 cents each in bulk. Absolutely amazing. I was alive when this was made. I was watching sesame street, but I was alive.

[@westelaudio943]

You would still need all the capacitors, many of the resistors etc. even if you were to use a chip with all necessary (op-) amps included. And with so many channels coming together in close space you might get problems with shielding and crosstalk. Musical synthesis in the analog domain is just naturally a very bulky endeavour. In the digital domain it's far easier of course, many 80s era FM-synth keyboards which are pretty much based on a single chip with few external components can do what this organ can, and often more. Even if the analog sound is more "legendary", those were far more efficient just a decade later.

[@tarstarkusz]

@@westelaudio943 The electronics in this could be replaced with a single chip and that would eliminate most of the support components. But of course, I mean digitally. From our point of view, it's big and complex, but what it is "reproducing" (albeit poorly) takes up a building. Real organs are pretty incredible machines. What I find odd about this machine is despite its complexity and high cost, it was built rather poorly. A particle board musical instrument?

[@diymaster1121]

I know both about music and electronics and this is exactly the stuff I like to repair.

[@JasonTHutchinson]

My grandparents had an organ in their house for as long as I can remember. This brings back some memories of mashing keys and playing around with all the different presets. None of us kids ever really learned how to play it properly. It eventually was sold in the estate sale. I don't know how much it sold for, but it went cheap. They also had an antique portable pump organ that was similar to an accordion. Some guy stole it when they had a garage sale.

[@danethanor]

Takes back to the mall in the early 80s. Wonder if or not but could be a thing, vintage 70s-80s shopping mall museum experience.

[@jjgriffin100]

Love your videos and great sense of humour. This was a real treat and a contender for your best yet It's really enjoyable to see you tackle electronics out of your area of expertise and use your fundamental skills and knowledge to find the problems and solutions.

[@seanwatts8342]

My grandparents had a mid-70s model. It had a Leslie speaker and if you turned it up it was LOUD!

[@curtisroberts9137]

Fantastic video. I'm fascinated by the complexity of old things whether electrical or mechanical. I imagine a restoration would take dozens of hours but to get it playing is still a great deed. Fun to watch your method of attack on it all.

[@jeffgrant2350]

"Banjo Key not working is probably a good thing" Best comment, I can relate.

[@agosto1685]

Question: What's the difference between a banjo and a '57 Chevy? Answer: You can tune a '57 Chevy. So what's the difference between a chainsaw and a banjo? The chainsaw has dynamic range!

[@beaufighter245]

I'll reiterate that😏

[@LanceHall]

Well, I enjoyed watching you diagnose and repair this. I like seeing an occasional off topic video so no complaints here.

[@hotpuppy1]

Back in the 70's every mall in the country had a music store with an old guy playing an organ like this that stood just inside the door. 90% of the problems with these is dirty connections on the keys, stops and boards. My wife kept a can of spray contact cleaner handy to spray them when stuff quit working on her Yamaha from the early 1980's. Of course by now the caps would be dying if she still had it.

[@DocBree13]

Yep!

[@Nathriel]

My grandfather used to play it all the time when I visited his house.

[@mtakala82]

Well this is a refreshing resurrection. Not saying that you should stray too far from radios and television sets, but fantastic to have surprise every once in a while.

[@frazzleface753]

These things are really from another era. Great to see one working.

[@alphabeets]

Shango, this was a fun video. It’s interesting to watch you really be challenged. Do more like this!

[@Notta_Mechanic]

The swinger 1000 organ. Sounds like a fun night.

[@bigsky1970]

"Recapper's Bath House" would be a great channel name for anyone who just does recapping videos.

[@ninfula01]

aunq no lo crean tuve uno de esos pianos cuando era niña en los años 90s.. y me enamore perdidamenteee de este bello piano, me podia pasar todo el dia explorando sus diferentes botones me gustaba cuando ponia en flauta y el efecto eco, la mandiola tmb...pero como todo gran amor tuvo su final...porq mi pais entro en gran crisis económica y mi hermano q fue quien lo trajo porq un amigo tenia una deuda con el, y le dejo en empeño este instrumento, al final lo tuvo q vender porq ya ni podiamos comer bien en casa, esto fue algo q marco mi niñez, tal vez hubiera sido una buena pianista..porq habilidad tenia, ya q soy hija de musico, mi papa era saxofonista...y hasta ahora me parece un sueño q hubo un piano americano en mi sala, una casa de un pueblo humilde de la ciudad de Lima, Perú :(

[@wichitaks]

I was a music producer for 20 years. I'm very tempted to remix his sections where he was playing and release the video. I would definitely have to include the no talent hip hop producer sample.

[@minty_Joe]

The bass response is giving my AKG K240 Studio cans a workout!

[@SteveReaves]

I picked one of these up for 40 bucks on Facebook. I thought exactly what you said about using the components in it to make some cool amps even if the rest didn't work! I'm going to try to clean it up, and see if I can use it as a rock style organ. Awesome video!

[@ChurchOfTheHolyMho]

Imagine my surprise - a 50 year old Swinger making bad connections on Craigslist. ;) Great video! I first learned of the string synth / organ dividers for octaves from Alex Ball's Crumar Multiman-S video. Excellent way to create polyphony. Now your video showed the internals and implementation of such tech. Cool! Thanks

[@Andrewausfa]

Shango - bringing out his inner Rick Wakeman since August 2021. Nice organ and good to see you pulling out all the stops to get it working, another Strings to your bow.

[@jedk9523]

my grandparents have one of these, it still works to!

[@ESDI80]

I have my Uncle's Thomas by Heath-Kit organ that he built back in the 60s. I'm sure it needs all its caps replaced, but it does still works. It also has a Leslie cabinet inside it as well. When you open the top it's loaded with tone generators. Sadly I don't have a clue how to play it. I just wanted it as my uncle built it and didn't want to see it get tossed when he passed on.

[@whitesapphire5865]

Ooh... Shade of "The Shining" there on the bass pedals. I'm still waiting for the sound of young Danny Torrance's tricycle on those hard wooden floors!

[@davidmcnish8572]

Bell & Howell made a cassette deck with pitch control that mounted on that plate under the keyboard. You purchased music and tapes that were “music minus one” where you played the lead (after you matched the tape speed/pitch to the organ)

[@themac6356]

That’s a pretty clever way to learn to play, I must admit.

[@SpeakerFreak95]

This channel is why I still use KZbin. Seriously, he’s the best.

[@audiodood]

Yes lol

[@AmericanLocomotive1]

I'm surprised by how nice all of the PCBs are. Early solid-state stuff was usually pretty crude, but everything appears to be very high quality.

[@dougsteel7414]

Fantastic sound! RICH harmonics, nice balance. Unfortunately I live in the UK or I'd want it for sure

[@jsciarri]

I bet RetroChad would love this, considering he repairs organs and knows how to play them. Too bad he's in Texas and hasn't been seen in the KZbin world for a decade now.

[@donsurlylyte]

he did vanish some time ago

[@mjg263]

Our next door neighbor had this same organ in the 70’s and it had a cassette deck right there where that bracket is on yours. It was kinda neat to fool with at first but it got old pretty fast, guess that’s why the whole fad died out rather quickly. Great troubleshooting video, loved the detailed manual. It kind of reminds me of those nice detailed Heathkit manuals that explain the circuit functions right down to the components on the board.

[@FarnhamJ07]

Wish ya weren't halfway across the country, would love restoring it. Learned how to play on a similar one as a kid. Glad your videos are a lil more accessible at least; thanks.

[@tedbell4416]

My grandmother had a couple big organs like this always amazed when I was a kid at all the switches and things looked like a million of them

[@bob7872]

I really enjoyed it too. I like the record players and radios, occasionally I'll watch the TV repairs, but this is something I'm interested in, and it helped to understand how organs work. Thanks! Some sounds are like something out of a horror movie. Who knows, maybe a low budget filmmaker or a church would like it.

[@MsStevo2000]

I am a big organ fan. have an old crumar and a hammond m3. this was fun to watch

[@Seiskid]

I ended up watching the full video in sections over a couple of days. I really enjoyed it. I had no idea at all how these things worked and this was very educational. Seeing the tuned oscillators and dividers makes a lot of sense now you think about it. But four days ago I had no idea this was how it was done. Listening to each stage with that signal tracer is a good idea as well. I tend to jump on the scope first, but the signal tracer and a multimeter is a lot faster and I like it. I am definitely going to build something like this in the next lockdown.

[@thetraindoctor4291]

It was really awesome to see this resurrection. I have a Swinger 1500 that does mostly work but needs restoration and it was great to see some of my suspicions confirmed as to what and where problems will be. The 1500 was a late 70’s model, 1977 I think when it came out. It’s huge with a two octave pedal set. My dad used to sell these and I picked it up as an homage to him. Anyway, love your vids. They’ve really taught me a lot.

[@organfairy]

The 'mystery switch' at 3:50 is changing the sound in some way. On old Farfisa organs from the 1960's it was a 'Tone Booster' that made the sound more aggressive by changing the filter system. On later home organs it was often a sustain lever that did the same as the sustain pedal on a piano except that you operated it with you right leg - the right foot was busy operating the volume pedal. On some organs there was a selector where you could choose between functions that the lever would activate - maybe that is what the "Magic tone selector" does.

[@gerardcarriera7052]

Absolutely awesome video!! I must say, I have never seen a detailed service manual like that one before. That company did it right! Well worth the money you spent on it.

[@truefilm6991]

Great video! Well I play the piano/keyboards and I like the design of this organ. Please forgive me if I sound a bit nerdy. I'm not an expert, I just play the best I can. The tone tabs (stops) are designed and named like those of the old 1920s/30s theater pipe organs and it looks cool. This is a spinet organ, meaning it has two offset rows of 44 keys (as opposed to two rows of 61 keys) like the smaller Hammond organs, which at the time still had electromechanical tonewheels and IMHO sound awesome through a real Leslie cabinet. Even though this is all early solid state, from what I hear it sounds quite nice. Glad there are no unique integrated circuits that are no longer available. Of course these organs were wather cheaply made and sound cheesy, but I think it's a lot of fun and always worth restoring. I guess these could be heard in homes, shopping malls and smaller churches. Try running this organ through a real Leslie cabinet and I think it will sound great (just don't use the rhythm section). Thanks for sharing.

[@chrisa2735-h3z]

Yes there was definitely a good fit back there I have one that came from one of these!

[@bobs152]

Wow what a feat of engineering. Reminded me of working on the space shuttle in the 80's.

[@nellermann]

Grandma's of my generation are all sad to see these have left the modern times. Electric pianos and keyboards are just much better. I loved playing on these as a kid in the 1980s!

[@philipethier9136]

I had a Kimble that played piano rolls and had a built-in two-speed Leslie.

[@teacfan1080]

Hey, I like the oddball fix it video. I thought trying to fix a tube TV was complicated, this organ made that look like child's play. Geez, I never knew these things were that complicated! A capacitor replacement dream come true! Great job getting it to work though. Never knew about a Leslie speaker before. But I know now how that organ gets that "sound" when you turn it on, interesting effect. Hope somebody can give it a good home.

[@mdmusic]

Your taste, style and sense of humor is just pure genius Shango. Don’t ever change that!

[@carlklitzke9455]

Thank you for making this. My mother has a similar Kimball but with more doodads. Neat when it works. I appreciate the breakdown of the elements, could not find a service manual for hers so this may come in handy later. Fun fact: if you set a router on top it'll pick up noise from the ethernet cables. Spent 2 hours cleaning and repeating boards and checking caps for that one.

[@WolfmanDude]

One of the best shango vids yet! I love that analog tone generation method. Would be entertaining to mess around with. See what kind of strange noises you can create

[@johnwilson2250]

"Recapper's Bath House" would make a great KZbin channel.

[@micahnightwolf]

Such a beautiful instrument. I can only hope that it found a loving home. I myself am musically and electronically inclined, but I don't have room in my home for something like this.

[@waltschannel7465]

Lawrence Welk in a box! 6:20 "Like a bath house for recappers!" 😆 The organist you featured at the beginning/end of the video is very very very good! It was so great to hear music other than mumble rap!

[@andymate2006]

My Great Uncle Gordon had one of these when he was alive. I remember playing with it when I was a kid.

[@vittekantilles4178]

Came for the repair, stayed for Shango's sick tunes at the end.

[@Nathriel]

My grandad left me one of these, but slightly different model. Looking forward to refreshing the electronics someday. Mine is simpler, but works fine no hum. Probably still needs a recapping! According to my grandfather, the wooden "switch" is actually to rest your knee against for proper pressure for your leg to adjust the volume pedal.

[@equid0x]

My grandparents had one very similar to this if not the same one. We as kids used to play with it until the adults got annoyed and told us to go outside. I remember it having many functional problems and we would give it a good swift kick in the Middle to straighten them out.

[@barryg41]

Retro Chad was a player of organs. I remember a couple of his videos were playing Hammonds. 😊

[@tony--james]

The Diagnosticals, of the electronicals, in this thing was superb! amazing video!!!

[@lauram5905]

I went absolutely wild when you revealed the tiered swing-ups for the upper electronics, that’s a serviceman’s dream right there too

[@countzero1136]

Aye they don't make them like that anymore :(

[@jaymiepobanz8801]

Wifes name and pic. Mark here. Highy refered by radiotvphononut and Mr Carlsons Lab. I own a late 70's Conn Organ with a huge Lelie speaker. Thanks for doing an organ. Great video!!! They can be lots of fun just screwing around with the keys, stops, pedals. Peace

[@agosto1685]

Wow, followed the bread crumbs from Mr Carlson's lab and this caught my eye. I still work for Kimball - have been there since 1979 when we were still designing and building organs. This one was a little before my time, but still very recognizable. Later, we went to the TOS (top octave synthesizer) which was really just an IC that had a set of dividers that generated the entire top octave from one 2 MHz oscillator. From there it was divide-by-two to get the lower octaves as you saw with this one. Great work troubleshooting this.

[@organfairy]

Didn't Kimball import organs from Italy in the last days of the home organ? I have seen one which the badge saying "Kimball EP-1 - computer by Elka" on the front.

[@agosto1685]

Yes. Kimball North American design and manufacturing facilities stopped making organs and turned solely to contract manufacturing at the end of 1984. Our engineering team had nothing to do with the Italian models. I never even saw them.

[@organfairy]

@@agosto1685 Possibly they were never unpacked at the Kimball facility but went straight to the music dealers. As far as I can see the Kimball EP-series is identical to the Elka EP-series, so Elka probably made everything. Elka also made organs for Gulbransen - the Equinox DG-series, but I think Gulbransen made the cases for those, as they look much different than the Elkas and Kimballs even thought they technically are the same.

[@Sys-Edit0r-1995]

I have a Kimball Swinger model 792 I had to do some board work after bring it to my group house, also recaps the power supply in it... Bought a service manual on ebay

[@Seiskid]

A recappers bathouse lol. It looks nicely made. Shame then there's a low market for these but you can understand why.

[@tedbell4416]

Yeah a Yamaha keyboard for $100 does ten times this thing but they are cool old organs.

[@volvo09]

Hahaha

[@dougbrowning82]

These spinet organs are kind of limited. The manuals are short and staggered, and the pedal-board is only one octave, with short pedals that can only be played by your left toe. You're definitely not going to be playing Bach on one of these. The market fell out for these things long ago, and the manufacturer, Kimball International, started concentrating on office furniture in the 1990s.

[@vincentlamb3436]

@@dougbrowning82 A niche market for sure. I can only say I might want something like this, not exactly like this model though. This is an entry level organ often bought for home practice. Something a little more intermediate however from the same time period would catch a pretty penny for the aspiring organist.

[@williamralph5442]

This Was a fun video to watch. The more stuff on the organ makes it harder to diagnose. You know your electronics. good job.

[@abdelkaderelbachir3817]

What a beautiful piece it should go to a museum

[@PeopleAlreadyDidThis]

In ‘76 we got a huge Hammond with full manuals and pedalboard, unrelated to the drawbar organs. It was much like this one in design architecture and in construction. Its edge connectors were just tin plated. It cost $3,500-yes, about as much as a new car then-and it began to fail within weeks. Had constant warranty calls. Finally died such a thorough death that I couldn’t troubleshoot it. Years later, the national organ craze over, I sold it for $75 because it was just too huge to keep around. A guy bought it to use as a decor item in a bar. I do remember visiting some of my parents’ acquaintances in the 60s. Some of those people could really play. Everyone else was envious of their skill, so all the manufacturers loaded the organs with the automatic gimmicks to make unskilled players sound good. Their sales presentations were certainly effective when they used the gimmicks.

[@DrWatts-bi1jv]

I'm not into electric organs, but I watched the whole thing and it was as usual, excellent. Many thanks Shango from your friends in the UK 🇬🇧

[@rickyabrahams7100]

The entertainment value of this video 10/10🤣. Your diagnostics still great as always👍

[@vipermad358]

I just got a Kimball Entertainer for FREE! It seems to be in good shape, but I'm going to need a manual, and your videos to keep it in working order.

[@busted_keys]

I used to drag home organs like this all the time to the chagrin of my parents. I could see why they always put reverb tanks and Leslies in them as most were pretty shrill sounding. The best was an all tube Electrohome. Had a few Hammonds as well - a Porta-B and a 1950s B2, the former of which I gigged into the ground and the latter I sold to free up space. Solid state organs like this can still be fun for experimenting. Most times the amplifier assembly is separate and often connected via standard RCA cables, making it pretty easy to insert an "FX loop" and them through some guitar pedals.

[@commodoresixfour7478]

I've scraped many. It's sad but I can only collect so many vintage electronics. Some of these older ones have awesome tube amplifiers and you can bet your ass I keep those! I have also came across a Hammond baby B3. I didn't have the heart to tear out its amp. The build quality of it as a whole stoped me in my tracks. I couldn't find a buyer and ended up giving it to a church organist. It was nice to hear it being played. I also have a newer one in my garage right now that I don't know what I'm going to do with. It has a tube amp and the real tone wheels you have to oil.

[@MsCori76]

They do take up a lot of space.

[@busted_keys]

​@@commodoresixfour7478 Good job saving the baby B! (M3?) Even those and the other Hammond spinets like the L100 aren't getting as much love now as they used to. My rule of thumb is if it has tonewheels try to save it / re-home it first.

[@watsisbuttndo829]

In the 70,s in Australia if you had middle class parents that were doing well for themselves ,home organs were sort of a status symbol. I saw heaps of them, usually in the foyer or loungeroom of a two story house and never saw actual music get played on one.

[@countzero1136]

Oh man I would absolutely buy this beautiful organ off you in a heartbeat if I lived closer to you. I used to design and service analogue synths and all kinds of other music hardware back in the early 80s and this thing is most definitely in my wheelhouse of expertise and enthusiasm for a full restoration. Unfortunately I live in the UK, and the cost of shipping it over here would make it riduculously non-viable on economic grounds, so I fear that I won't be able to take on this project, even though I would absolutely love to. I really hope that you can find a vintage electronic music enthusiast out there (there are still loads of us all over the world and there are websites and facebook groups too) who would be willing to put in the time and effort to restore this beauty to its original condition, as it would be absolutely criminal to break this thing for parts. Good luck buddy!

[@beaufighter245]

You guys are becoming rare though. I have a Solina string that, having been stored for years, I'm loathe to switch on. Nobody around to help though.

[@stridermt2k]

I remember the guy at mall would be playing. Old times!

[@hestheMaster]

Hey Shango look at you at the end of the video making music!🎹🎹🎹

[@cmans79tr7]

My addled brain recalls these being given as potential prizes behind curtain #2 on Monty Hall's "Lets Make a Deal!" 70's TV Game Show. Sometimes even being given as part of the "Big Deal of the Day" to help jack up the total $ value of the "Deal", along with an "all expenses paid trip to Catalina Island or Las Vegas" or somesuch. As a kid I had always wondered that if I ever had won one of these, would I then have some sort of moral obligation to "attempt" (ha) to learn to play it😛.

[@cmans79tr7]

Nice unexpected reveal at 4:22. I actually said "Oohh!" out loud. And even on a big screen TV those capacitors at the right look like filter tip cigarette butts, and from the sound of your comment, I guess they might as well be. No dispersion intended on the manufacturer, just making a shallow attempt at humor.... Or is 50 years hence too soon?

[@russellhltn1396]

42:00 When you play adjacent low notes, you'll get a beat tone that adds a vibrato effect. The frequency difference in the notes can be 10 Hz or less.

[@poulx]

I laughed so hard I literally shitted my pants when he told the keyboard NO! NO! Who do that??? 😜 My buddies left. Thanks for the great videos!

[@michaelrobertson575]

Well done! That was very interesting. I can remember when here in Britain this sort of thing was a bit of a status symbol in the early 1980's and at least some people could actually get a tune out of them. I'm guessing that those Frequency Divider Chips contain a chain of D Type Bistable Multivibrators which is tapped at various points.

[@seanobrien7169]

Holy crap my head is spinning. What a challenge. In a way it looks like a beautiful piece to work on, well thought out and laid out. But man, is that thing complex! Have you ever heard of Michael Iceberg? My dad helped him work on his show at Orlando Disney for years, mostly the Disney set with the rising stage, but Michael did take him under the hood of his synthesizer more than once.

[@phillippacker5920]

"Today on 'Shango's House of Dis-Chords,' Turd Burglar and the Short-O-Matics!"

[@MarkPalmer1000]

When my mother in law passed away, I was asked if we wanted her 1970's Kimball organ. I opened it up, looked inside at all those little black plastic electroytics staring up at me from the boards, and said no thanks. Great for someone who likes perpetual science projects, or watching their dog chase its tail!

[@joegood2474]

For me this was a really fabulous video! So much apprecate you going through the thinking process, it helped me so much. I laughed when you said "Hard to work with that funky beat" haha. If I could ask anything further in your videos would be that you took a moment to show the complete hook up of your tools when you first implement one although I think I can figure it out. I have this exact organ in a Model 1085. Parts of it are not working (can't remember which parts a the moment) and I was going to just toss it but I thought, Wait! Maybe I should see of anyone has tried to repair one of these and wallah! I found you. Thank you so much for your AWESOME video! Subscribed.

[@Ka9radio_Mobile9]

My Grand Mother had a Hammond, about 1971 model year, it had a cassette tape play built in to record what you were playing, at the time it was high tech. You have to remember when you have only four TV channels that you could watch you better have a organ on had when thing when all goes south!

[@rafaelmedina546]

Not only do you have mad skills you’re also entertaining to watch.

[@skullheadwater9839]

as I responded to another video, If you were within a few hours drive from New Orleans I would fit the bill. 53 year old musician, my other hobbies an fixing 1930s through 60s radios, record players, guitar amps and build custom tube guitar amps etc. I actually brought back a 1959 Hammond M3 which is in my den.

[@MrKlausic]

Les orgues électroniques produits au milieu des années 1970 sont toujours un problème dans la réparation des composants électroniques, en particulier le reniflement des condensateurs électrolytiques. Il a fait du bon travail en réparant cet orgue. Génial.

[@michaelbennett1883]

The bracket is for mounting your cb radio for making the hottest mumble tracks

[@tucat8818]

I thought it was nicotine infusion ash tray, like you see on a Las Vegas slut machine.

[@BradRaedel]

Breaker one nine....we got a smokey out the back door, looks like another cap shorted.

[@derpydog1008]

@@BradRaedel haha