This evening I pulled the pedal solo control panel to replace the 17 paper capacitors in the 'subtractive synthesis' filter network. Also replaced the felts in the lower manual, will finish the capacitors and the upper felts tomorrow.
edit: seems pics can't be uploaded at the moment, will try later
New felt installed in both manuals, pedal solo panel rebuilt and will be installed this eve. This organ had screws in the front rails so I thought that would make everything easier, but not quite. Getting the rail unstuck from the lower rail it's mounted to was time consuming. I wound up taking out the cheekblocks and lower rail anyway because I didn't have good enough access to remove the downstop felt. I did the other manual the old fashioned way and it went fairly quick. Next big thing is to defoam the upper manual, which I'm hoping to do with it in place. Has anyone done that?
Thanks!
You put it very politely, David 8) Once you have have it out, no problem 8) Getting it out though, you might as well overhaul the manuals too because you have to unbolt everything!
Since you have that manual out, I want to ask you something. Its either my D or E above middle C on the great, sometimes I press it and get a medium pitch click sound. This click is at the key, not over the speaker, in other words it is something mechanical and would happen with the organ turned on or off. Usually happens when playing the adjacent lower whole step first. Always thought it was a felt thing. You think that may be possible?
I have thought about posting a short video clip of this, but the click doesn't happen on any consistent basis.
Thanks,
Christopher
Hammond RT-3, Boston studio upright piano, Fender Rhodes Mark I 73 stage piano.
Sounds like it could be a "key comb" issue. Sticking up underneath each key is a metal finger with a small patch of felt fixed to it. Its purpose is to limit side-to-side movement of the keys. If these little felts become worn down, it's possible for the keys to click against each other if your fingers are pushing them sideways. Very annoying! My A100 has a few keys that do this, so I bought some used key combs off eBay to replace the worn ones (I haven't put them in yet). There are also little hacks that can be done with pieces of fabric and glue to fix them. Each individual 'comb' has fingers for twelve keys. If you look at rightmost key in the above picture you can see the felt peeking out from under the comb finger.
It would be a good thing to do if you were already going into the manuals to replace the up/down stop felts, for example. The process looks a little frightening, but it's not really difficult. It takes a couple hours and following some basic steps in the correct order 8) Some suggest swapping the clacky comb with one from a lesser used section of the same keyboard.
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