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My personal opinion is that a decent used Allen or Rodgers church organ is the best home instrument for classical practice if you can find what you want and the price is right. But you probably...

Yes, a 32' ContreViolone has relatively little fundamental tone, so it's not difficult for the standard speaker cabinets to produce. Allen could sell organs with a real 32' stop without having to...

Oh dear. I am truly sorry to hear of your distressing situation, Fettler. Nobody deserves that kind of suffering. I did not mean to insult you or to put you down in any way with my reflections on...

I'd like the fact that they never criticize the playing!

Mike, you hit the nail on the head, but some folks won't completely understand or agree. I too think that serving a church in any capacity, and most certainly as an organist or choir director, must...

You'll probably hear a lot of pros and cons on both types of speaker. The HC-15 is a venerable system that has been around since the mid-80's and is a proven performer with all types of Allen...

Today is his birthday. 19 years old.

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DrBen,

Seriously, an Allen organ, even 35 or 40 years old, is not an "old" organ. I'm a little biased since I used to be an Allen salesman and I still love the product, but an Allen organ is...

Wow! The Dutch Cameron Carpenter! (Without the sequins.) Nice to know that there are rising stars in other places.

One other thing to check -- the volume pots on the amps themselves. We just had a MOS Allen come through the shop that had the amp pots totally gunked up with something that caused the audio to go...

If the start motor turns the gen and it makes a lot of noise, and the run motor can spin quietly without being connected to the gen, I'd say your trouble is in the generator itself. As I said above,...

One of our Canadian forum members has this two-manual small Allen for sale at a very low price, well under your budgeted amount. The keyboards are full-size 61-key range and the pedalboard has the...

Well, I'm speaking as a small-church organist and not a highly-trained one either. And yes, eliminating the fancy postlude takes away a moment of performance that many organists look forward to and...

Perhaps the run switch is defective or not wired in correctly. Flipping the run switch on re-routes the AC to the start motor through a resistor, which might itself be burned out, but the fact that...

Good price, Arie. Would make someone a wonderful home organ. We sold quite a few of these back in the day. I remember putting one into a church, and not even a tiny church, it probably seats 300,...

Not that I know of. Ebay seems to be loaded with used MOS and ADC boards right now. Somebody must have parted out a few consoles for MIDI station use.

AFAIK, all single-computer MOS organs had two separate amps for the two channels (early ones had T-50 amps, later S-100). I too am puzzled that the failure affects both channels at the same time. ...

Glad to hear another positive reaction to the PII. It beguiles me every time I play it. Can't help wondering just how much better it might sound with a really big external audio system.

Good point about the switch sequence. I see you own at least one other TW Hammond, but sometimes the procedure bears repeating. Hold the start switch in the on position all by itself for about 10...

Thanks for the good report. We need more evenings like that!

That's what I was thinking yesterday when trying to get a combination digital/pipe instrument repaired yesterday. So many layers of complexity, so many things that can be wrong, where do you start? ...

The lack of expression when going into the sound system is normal -- expression on these organs is by a light-dependent resistor in the pedal, and it is of a specific impedance to match the input of...

I haven't been following your thread about this organ, so I'll ask some questions just to see where you are in the process ....

What happens when you hold the start switch -- does it ever get up...

I think it's a pretty good sign of a healthy church when people want to fellowship, even loudly, after the quiet intensity of worship, so I think it's best to just go with the flow. In fact, I've...