How many different kinds of instrument in your house?

lasermonkey

dogload said:

Electric guitars (6 & 12-string)

Acoustic guitars (6, 12 and classical)

electric Mandolin

Acoustic mandolin

Bouzouki

Bass guitars

Flute

Oboe

Alto Sax

Recorders

Whistles

Bamboo flutes

Synths

Drums (various)

Bugle

Appalachian Dulcimer

Epinette des Vosges

Violin

Various percussion

Audio Generators!

You are Dik Mik and I claim my £5! :-)

dogload

lasermonkey said:

dogload said:

Electric guitars (6 & 12-string)

Acoustic guitars (6, 12 and classical)

electric Mandolin

Acoustic mandolin

Bouzouki

Bass guitars

Flute

Oboe

Alto Sax

Recorders

Whistles

Bamboo flutes

Synths

Drums (various)

Bugle

Appalachian Dulcimer

Epinette des Vosges

Violin

Various percussion

Audio Generators!

You are Dik Mik and I claim my £5! :-)

Lol... yeah, well I always wanted to be a Technician of Space Ship Earth!

When I came across them in a car boot sale, I just had to!

Sassafras

No-one's mentioned the majestic tambourine. What's wrong with you all.

Can't beat a tambourine, well, you can but you know what I mean.

Wonderful instrument, very soulful.

Moe_Zambeek

ICBM;914536" said:

I forgot Stylophone… and Theremin.

Theremin, eh? Is it useable? I've always fancied one but figured it'd end up as a paperweight

ICBM

Sassafras said:

No-one's mentioned the majestic tambourine. What's wrong with you all.

Can't beat a tambourine, well, you can but you know what I mean.

Wonderful instrument, very soulful.

Included in 'various percussion'. There's also a triangle I think.

Moe_Zambeek said:

Theremin, eh? Is it useable? I've always fancied one but figured it'd end up as a paperweight

It's one of those little kit ones that looks like a walkie-talkie. It does work but I've never used it for anything practical either!

Gassage

Both types.

Gibson and Fender.

andrew

Gassage said:

Both types.

Gibson and Fender.

This

impmann

Electric guitars - 6 & 12 string
Acoustic guitar
Classical guitar
Lap steel
Uke
Electric bass
Omnichord
Synth
Descant recorder
Treble recorder
Alto recorder
Melodian
Stylophone
Tambourine

Phil_aka_Pip

Electric guitars
Acoustic guitars
Basses
Rhodes Stage Piano
Upright piano
Hammond organ
Tin whistle
Swannee whistle
Descant recorder
Tambourine
Alesis SR-16

Nomad

Electric, acoustic and classical guitars
Electric & acoustic bass guitars
Acoustic piano
Hammond organ
Mono synthesiser
MIDI controller keyboards into computer and/or hardware sound module
Tenor sax
Flute
Violin
Harmonicas
Tin whistle

Chalky

Many of the above but also an EWI5000 electric wind instrument.

Phil_aka_Pip

@Nomad nice to see another Hammond user. Mine's an L102, woss yours?

Nomad

Mine is an A100 with a 145 Leslie.

The A100 is a B3 in a rather bigger lump of furniture and has a Hammond tone cabinet in the bottom and a built-in reverb. It was basically the home organ version of the B3, and has all the B3 features - 4 sets of drawbars plus 2 for bass, percussion, vibrato/chorus, inverse preset keys.

The tone cabinet is what was originally supposed to be used with Hammonds (Laurens Hammond was against Leslies at first). The built-in cab has two 12" speakers for the dry sound and another power amp and 12" speaker for reverb (so a 3x12 overall). The Leslie is the traditional type with a slightly shorter cabinet (147 is taller - same height as a 122), and is designed to work from a tapping from the organ's power amp rather than the B+ line on a normal B3. 15" bass driver with rotor, spinning horn, 40W 6L6 amp. I use it Leslie-only for the dry sound and blend in some reverb (it has a switch to go between internal, Leslie or both, and keeps the reverb on all the time).

It's a beast and far too loud to get it into overdriven sounds.

The L100 series are real-deal tonewheel organs as well and I think are the same era (my A100 is a 1968, I believe).

Got a Leslie?

Phil_aka_Pip

@Nomad no, but I have 2 good patches on my Quadraverb. I guess you have more space than I do, but if an affordable deal on a Leslie came my way I'd probably try to make room for it

Nomad

The Korg G4 is a very good Leslie simulator pedal. Does fast/slow/stop and overdrive.

I suspect I'm just willing to put up not much space.

I think my 145 worked out at about 400 quid or so. Need to make sure that both the organ and the Leslie have the same type of connector. On the organ, there's an add-on bit that hooks into the signal and power and routes them to a box with the Leslie connector. Also has one or two switches for fast/slow and swapping between internal speakers and Leslie. With that lot fitted and the cable connected, the Leslie powers up automatically when the organ is switched on.

There are several adapter kits - some for the speakerless B3/C3, and most for various other organs with internal speakers (Hammond and other makes). There's plenty of material on the net which should help you home in on what you need for the L102 and whatever Lerlie you want/find. Various vintages of Leslies came with different multi-pin connectors (mine is 6-pin). Also, watch out for later Leslies and ones that were budget versions. I know of one that only has a full range driver and rotor - no treble driver and spinning horn - and it doesn't sound right at all. Some later ones have solid state amps, possibly no bass rotor, etc.

Phil_aka_Pip

@Nomad thanks for info

Just had a quick google for the A100, noticed it has reverse white/black keys at the left end of each manual. What do they do?

Nomad

The reverse keys are for selecting presets. C switches the manual off, C# to A are particular drawbar setups wired internally, and Bb and B pick the two user drawbar settings. The internally wired ones can be changed by opening the back of the organ, looking up a chart and moving wires around on a terminal block with the aid of a screwdriver.

The factory presets are mostly pipe organ sounds.

Phil_aka_Pip

@Nomad thanks, wow, and YLSNED

Paul_C

Piano
Electric/acoustic/classical guitars
Electric basses
Mandolin (on loan)
Ukulele
Melodica
Xaphoon
Various drums and percussion, cymbals etc.
Cajon
Djembe
Microkorg
Stylophone
Ocarina
Mouth Organs (most on loan)
Kazoo

Nomad

Phil_aka_Pip said:

@Nomad thanks, wow, and YLSNED

Aye, programming a preset by pulling the back off, getting the screwdriver out, and looking up a chart for the wires-to-terminals drawbar mappings is proper hairy-chested synth stuff.

Are you aware you have to oil the tonewheel mechanism? Use proper Hammond oil, and I'm told once a year or so.