Does take a bit of skill to free up the inductors to tune them without breaking the slugs. Something that old is all standard parts but the inductors and switches.

Buying 2000 hour up life caps will forestall doing that again for some years. I changed every one in my 1968 hammond, and my St70 and PAS2 dynakit. ! An old organ will need $50-100 in electrolytic capacitors to sound like new, probably. My PC's have always needed a power supply every year, a disk drive every 2 years, then you have to back up the drive after every few changes in case the disk drive goes then. I can't see gutting it for midi, involves importing a lot of fragile lightning and virus sensitive parts from c****, ie a PC or Mac, and a 3 minute boot procedure, plus a lot of fiddling around at the screen. I can't believe people buy organs on E-bay, the shipping can be rediculous. If it is E-bay and/or a dealer, forget it. If it is craigslist or a print ad, show up with $250 cash and the starving student speech. Alabama with a $300 budget including gas money was looking at a CH32, and disappeared from organforum. Years later in the mid-80s a new student of mine had one in her home and it was quite serviceable. Are any still in circulation or use today, whether souped up for the digital age or not? Was anybody especially fond of them? I of course worshipped them in the old days, being a kid at the time and blissfully not knowing any better.

What kind of a life did they ever enjoy, if any, above the obvious - home and small church use. What were the Lowrey classicals I'm thinking of called - model names and numbers please. That's fine, it would seem those have many admirers, but I thought these others deserved a history/nostalgia thread, if only for those with truly nothing better to do. The more recent models of Lowreys in which keyboards are almost lost amid bulky consoles and tons of multicolored, different-shaped sound controls - these are all that's ever mentioned or depicted, at least in my experience. I *never* see them anymore, whether in person, online, in an and or in a discussion forum. Two manuals, maybe a 27-note pedalboard (or was it 32?), a zillion stop taps that mostly sounded rather similar, maybe four factory-set general pistons (that actually moved those tabs?). Remarkably, something seems to be totally missing in action even as other old relics are still notably in circulation: the above.

1980's lowrey organ models list