engrssc wrote:organtechnology wrote:Although I do not agree with your contact conditioning opinion I will defend until death your right to be wrong
The Schober line is a keeper, as you said.
BTW, Thomas, as a good friend keeps telling me, remember we need to take care of "us" because we are dead for a long time. (Thought about that while visiting my cardiologist today).
For the record, the info/opinion on the contact situation was not mine. We did originally, and with advice from the makers of De-Oxit, attempt to use all of their products (and I still use them). The info came from a metallurgist I happened to know at the time (now deceased). We also sent contact samples to Caig Labs out in California. Their metallurgist agreed with the findings that the contact material had become a non conductor and as they said, beyond conditioning. I even went so far as to see if the contacts could have been replated with no success. So to use a reverse play of words, we left no turn unstoned.
Now my original point is, there is no way, other than inspecting and testing to know for certain if a pipe organ console's contacts could be used to drive an encoder. They may or may not be ok. 'nuff said.
And, yes, I still am a (fond) supporter of the late Richard Dorf. I still look back positively on the experience of getting boxes and cartons in the mail and building a complete Schober organ. His beautiful do-it-yourself consoles are still used by some folks who have replaced the electronics, keyboards, and such. He was a pioneer. Even the bench(es) and pedal boards were well done. I built all the Schober organ models except the smallest split manual spinet. As good as that experience was then, seeing advances with Hauptwerk (along with computers today) I wouldn't go back.
Rgds,
Ed
I have one if you want it. Needs a little work on the pedal board and a computer. It has two M-Audio 61es kb and a midified Schober pb. I was going to make it into my personal unit but my house ran out of room.
Thomas
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