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Hello everyone,
I picked up a 1958 M3 for pretty cheap because a couple of tones did not play. Narrowed it down to the tone D4 (D above middle C) and found a broken wire from on the generator side. Soldered that and it worked fine. All notes played and sounded in proper tuning.
The organ ran pretty quiet for about 1 day then started making a "whirring noise" noise - not extremely loud but quite prominent. Seems to be coming physically from about the middle of the tone generator body. Tested all tones and a few keys did not play in key - narrowed that down to the tone E7 - it plays flat, approximately C#7. Would this indicate a specific tone wheel not spinning properly?
I am hoping this is an oiling issue, I have oiled it and am waiting, will keep checking on it.
The guy I bought it from does not know much of the organ's history, he bought a house and the previous owner left it - the story was his son's ex-girlfriend had bought it for him but then broke his heart so he did not want to keep it. So it might not have been used in a while - my guess is not laying unused for more than a couple of years.
So going forward with the oiling, is there anything else to look out for?
Thanks in advance for any help and thanks to everyone for the body of knowledge here, it helped me fix the first missing tone issue :-)
~Stephen
I picked up a 1958 M3 for pretty cheap because a couple of tones did not play. Narrowed it down to the tone D4 (D above middle C) and found a broken wire from on the generator side. Soldered that and it worked fine. All notes played and sounded in proper tuning.
The organ ran pretty quiet for about 1 day then started making a "whirring noise" noise - not extremely loud but quite prominent. Seems to be coming physically from about the middle of the tone generator body. Tested all tones and a few keys did not play in key - narrowed that down to the tone E7 - it plays flat, approximately C#7. Would this indicate a specific tone wheel not spinning properly?
I am hoping this is an oiling issue, I have oiled it and am waiting, will keep checking on it.
The guy I bought it from does not know much of the organ's history, he bought a house and the previous owner left it - the story was his son's ex-girlfriend had bought it for him but then broke his heart so he did not want to keep it. So it might not have been used in a while - my guess is not laying unused for more than a couple of years.
So going forward with the oiling, is there anything else to look out for?
Thanks in advance for any help and thanks to everyone for the body of knowledge here, it helped me fix the first missing tone issue :-)
~Stephen