Hello everyone,
In the past I had asked about my church's Allen ADC-2110-T organ key contact issues. Sometimes a note wouldn't play, and I would have to work the key several times for it to come back. However, it seems to be getting worse and I had a few more questions. It is a small Episcopal church in Phillipsburg, NJ.
The contacts have been cleaned by Allen a few times, and it seems to hold for a few months before the issue starts to crop up again. I'm noticing now that the keyboards are starting to feel a bit sluggish and stiff. Some notes in particular are slow to return, and the keyboards feel kinda squishy. I know these aren't the most crisp feeling keyboards even when new, no doubt due to their plastic construction and simple return springs. However, they seem even worse than usual.
Is this a function of something deteriorating in the keyboards? Would we have to have the keyboards replaced? If so, does Allen even make replacement keyboards for one of these organs anymore? Any idea what that would cost?
Any thoughts you have on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Yesterday, for Easter service, during the opening hymn (Jesus Christ is Risen Today) I lost middle E in the great, which definitely made things interesting. I'd really like to get this remedied in a timely fashion to minimize disruption to the service.
Thanks,
Jon
In the past I had asked about my church's Allen ADC-2110-T organ key contact issues. Sometimes a note wouldn't play, and I would have to work the key several times for it to come back. However, it seems to be getting worse and I had a few more questions. It is a small Episcopal church in Phillipsburg, NJ.
The contacts have been cleaned by Allen a few times, and it seems to hold for a few months before the issue starts to crop up again. I'm noticing now that the keyboards are starting to feel a bit sluggish and stiff. Some notes in particular are slow to return, and the keyboards feel kinda squishy. I know these aren't the most crisp feeling keyboards even when new, no doubt due to their plastic construction and simple return springs. However, they seem even worse than usual.
Is this a function of something deteriorating in the keyboards? Would we have to have the keyboards replaced? If so, does Allen even make replacement keyboards for one of these organs anymore? Any idea what that would cost?
Any thoughts you have on the matter would be greatly appreciated. Yesterday, for Easter service, during the opening hymn (Jesus Christ is Risen Today) I lost middle E in the great, which definitely made things interesting. I'd really like to get this remedied in a timely fashion to minimize disruption to the service.
Thanks,
Jon
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