Trying to repair the lower manual on the Wersi Comet and playing a song on it

[@zumazmusic]

You are the master! I love watching you get these old beauties working again. 😊🎶

[@macbit_chbe7988]

Sehr interessant! 😁 Grüsse von Edgar, Bern (Schweiz)

[@timothyverbist5795]

I hope you get the 17 keys working again.

[@marcbrasse747]

No reason to be surprised about anything in a Wersi. I already called them semi-Italian in the previous comment. In Italy small companies often live from hand to mouth. What is available gets used. Furthermore all Wersi’s of the time where available as kits, although not that many might have been finished after people buying them. 😁

[@organfairy]

I think the kits were too expensive to just give up on. Remember that Wersimatic II I once bought? I got that from a Wersi enthusiast who had assembled two (2!) Wersi organs - a W248 and a Helios - and upgraded the Helios with the CX1 and a digital reverb unit instead of the springs.

[@marcbrasse747]

7:00 min: Yep, now it is starting to do that typical Wersi thing. Call it Teutonic Italian or the other way around! 👍

[@organfairy]

But still it does the German fill-in which drives me crazy!

[@marcbrasse747]

@@organfairy For those spots you can program your own on the X30. 🤣

[@PracticalCat]

A couple layers of 35mm heatshrink should fix that card edge plug.

[@organfairy]

I ended up melting a piece of metal wire into the plastic as reinforcement. It seems to be working fine.

[@PracticalCat]

@@organfairy 👍 , Also the comet looked very very expensive to produce back in the day. They must have cost a fortune!

[@organfairy]

@@PracticalCat In the UK they sold for £1900 as a kit and £3600 assembled according to Mu:zines.

[@macbit_chbe7988]

@@organfairy Und hier in der Schweiz kostete die Comet als Bausatz CHF 8'500.00. - Die Comet ist meine erste WERSI Orgel; es ist ein Standmodell; ohne «Magic Fingers»-Modul. Ich konnte sie im Februar 2012 für CHF 50.00 kaufen und musste sie in der Nähe von St. Gallen abholen; sie funktioniert einwandfrei. - Der Vorbesitzer ist ein pensionierter Elektroniingenieur und hat die Comet während seiner Freizeit selbst gebaut. Später konnte ich noch zwei weitere WERSI Comet kaufen; beide sind Koffermodell. Grüsse von Edgar, Bern (Schweiz)

[@organfairy]

@@macbit_chbe7988 I paid DKR 50 for my Comet. But as you can see it was quite defective.

[@timothyverbist5795]

4:13 maybe you can craft a new pedalbox.

[@timothyverbist5795]

Can you make a video of how you managed to get the 17 keys working again from the lower manual?

[@organfairy]

I'm working on it.

[@timothyverbist5795]

@@organfairy okay

[@tomkey-rt5je]

More Please from this wersi-shit 🤣

[@organfairy]

There will be more.