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Hello everyone</p>
I am a new member of the organ forum and somewhat new to the world of organs. I just rescued my first organ a few months ago from the dump; a late 70's? Kawai e360. I was very happy with this find but from the very start I had had my eyes on another organ as well, a '66 Hallman reed organ, also a rescue organ. To justify having two organs I had to make on of them smaller and portable. The kawai was the obvious choice. As I am writing this the stain is drying on the new cabinet for it. I can hardly wait but I have a few questions for anyone familiar with these organs. </p>
The E360 has un-powered speaker outputs in the back of the original cabinet and when used cuts out the speakers in the original cabinet, including the leslie. I also noticed that of the four quarter inch output jacks in the back (labeled right, left, rotary, and mix), only the rotary channel uses the tibia. And the other three use everything except the tibias. I guess some sound comes out but it doesn't sound good. So the first question is, is this normal and should I plan on using a mixer between the organ and the amp to get all the tones?</p>
My next question concerns the speaker wires that went to the original speakers. There are 3 channels , a left, a right and a line that feeds the leslie from the power supply. I assume that it is wired in stereo because the left and right speakers (two of each) had seperate positive wires, a common ground. The left and right channels are each wired in series for a stock value of 16 ohms. I had considered modifing this so I could plug some heavier stereo speakers or just a guitar/bass speaker cab into these powered outputs. It wouldn't be much power (90 watts in 3 channels claimed by the manual) but enough for practicing at home. How much should I worry about matching the original impedance; could I just plug in my pair of Realistic Mach One's @ 8 ohms each and not worry about it or should I only plug something in that is specifically 16 ohms like the original? Or should I scrap that idea?</p>
There is still one channel from the Leslie and I wonder whether it is the same as the extension speaker jacks in that it is specifically used for the tibias. It is an 8 ohm speaker which is much easier to match up with existing equipment that I already own... </p>
There was some brain storming on my part to overcome the problem of the pedals, which I kinda wanted to keep. There is 13 pedals which involve 15 wires, a volume pedal involving 4 wires and I was going to modify the knee sustain lever to be a pedal and it has 3 wires. That is a grand total of 22 wires and I had scratched my head for several weeks on what to do about this. Then the idea came to me as I saw an aftermarket <span id="productlist_ProductDataList__ctl4_ProductDescr iption" class="RegText">"Crimp D-sub connector: 25-position male" </span>parallel cable end (96 cents at Radio Shack). So I was thinking that I might be able to, after making a box for the pedals, cut one end of a parallel cable off, solder it to the terminals for the pedals and just have a plug on the back of the new organ cabinet to plug it all into. I can't think of any reason why the plugs won't work, but I do wonder about the wires in a parallel cable and whether they are suitable for the task.
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I was also hoping to get a schematic of this model somewhere, thought it might be good to have or just to say I have looked at it. I just noticed that I have my first loose wire hanging around and I can't tell where it goes to or where it comes from (yet)...I think it might be a ground (black wires, two soldered together, same gauge as the other grounds, still tied into the rest of the nest with not much room to move). </p>
I am not a complete novice when it comes to electronics but my experience is somewhat limited.
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Any help would be appreciated even if you just want to tell me to count my loses and put it back together the way it was.
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I promise to get some pics up when I am further along in the build.</p>
thx
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