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hey folks, i'm getting another organ to my collection, a lowrey gx-225 organ with the full 25 note pedalboard, not the spinet pedals that were common to lowrey and its got some issues that don't seem too serious, mainly it wants to play and the more you mess around with it, it seems to come to life as I was told it was sitting for a few years.  I'm guessing that it probably needs a good cleaning and some adjustments but thought i'd see what you guys thought. 

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At Home:
Conn 640 and Yamaha Me-10 Upstairs
Lowrey Gx-225 in gameroom (still trying to debug)

Depend what the issues are!

A good clean-up; key and tab contacts, internal connectors etc, will no doubt help, but I'd wait for a little while and see just how much comes back with regular use.

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It's not what you play, it's not how you play. It's the fact that you're playing that counts.

been tinkering around with it for the past day, you can hear almost like a percussion type deal with the flutes, and after that decays a faint flute noise and the orchestral sounds are faint with a fuzzy sound accompanying it.  when you hit the reset key it makes more of an organ like sound while you hold it and then it resets itself.  also expression pedal doesnt seem to be functioning its a photocell type and the bulb is good I have no idea what it could be.  appears to be evidence of a mouse or the like was poking around, but no nests or chewed up wires so far. 

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At Home:
Conn 640 and Yamaha Me-10 Upstairs
Lowrey Gx-225 in gameroom (still trying to debug)