Schober Organ Notes No. 48
OVERTURE
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WE'RE E X P A N D I N G !
It's been apparent, for a while, that I was getting very few repair tips,
upgrades. and modification items, for inclusion in our newsletters, NO
GRIST FOR OUR MILLS so to speak! ... hence the following to Jack Moelmann
(Head Honcho of the ETONES). If anyone in our current group structure has
concerns that he/she will be forgotten ... perish the thought ... IT WON'T
HAPPEN!
Dear Jack, At the suggestion of Jack Gildar and with the agreement of
most of the members in our Schober Organ Group, we've decided to invite
the owners of any "kit" (Devtronix, Artisan, etc.) and/or "built from scratch"
organs to join our group. There are no "charges" involved and, if they
have email facilities, they can receive our newsletter via email from Jack
Gildar. HOW? All they have to do is: send their email address to Jack Gildar
at: ... or ... with a
note saying they'd like to receive ORGAN NOTES via email. AND ... If they
have the facilities ... they can access our Website: http://www.cloud9.net/~pastark/schober.html
Any questions; they can contact me: Fred Henn, 230 North French Rd., Amherst,
NY 14228 (Email: oranur@juno.com).
BOOKS WANTED
ALEX KRUEDENER would appreciate any suggested sources for the following
books: DICTIONARY OF PIPE ORGAN STOPS and DICTIONARY OF ELECTRONIC ORGAN
STOPS, both by Stevens Irwin. If you have any suggestions, you can contact
Alex at; Mr. Alexander Kruedener, Jr. 161 East 89th St. Apt.4E New York,
NY 10128-2380
PEDAL SWITCHES
MARVIN TRAUTWEIN writes: "I have replaced pedal switches over the holidays.
The new switches are momentary-contact ones from Tech America, and seem
to work OK. I like them because their travel is 7mm, about the same as
the front end of the Recital pedals." Here's TECH AMERICA's address ...
should you want to contact them: Tech America P.O. Box 1981 Fort Worth,
TX 76101-1981
Helping Hand
DON BECKER (Sonic Creations, Inc.) emails the following; "I will provide
a helping mind to anyone who has organ problems to solve whether they are
interested in purchasing anything from us or not." Don continued with;
"Just put my E-mail address in your newsletter as soniccr@frontier.net".
If you have any questions contact Don at his email address or phone him:
(303) 882-4532.
RECITAL PARTS NEEDED
MAC HAYES writes that he now has Michael Berg's Schober Recital organ and
is looking for the #11 LEVER ARM for the CRM-1 Combination Action. His
letter went on to say; "A number of the Stop Switch hinges are breaking
on the right side." .... "If you have replacement hinges/switches I could
use four of them, or maybe a suggestion for another way to repair these
hinges?" (other than Super-Glue!). You can contact Mac at 5419 64th St.
W. Rosamond CA 93560-6460 or PH: (805) 256-3162 or Email: mach37@ptw.com
NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES
CHUCK REYNOLDS informed me (via email) that in addition to his email address: ...
he now has: Postal address: 648 Northlight
Circle Webster, NY 14580-9409
LAWRENCE BLYLY: LBLY@cybersol.com Postal address: 53666 CR 687 Hartford,
MI. 49057
GEORGE REIM: Postal address: 6230 Archwood Lane
St. Louis, MO 63123-1728
PHILLIP POSEY: Postal address: 1124 Gunter Circle,
West Columbia, S. C. 29169-6219
ROBERT H BAINBRIDGE: Postal address: 15 Westland
Ave. Queensbury NY 12804-1212
ERIC JOHNSON: Postal address: 123 Edgewood Dr.
Richland WA 99352
ADDRESS CORRECTION
F. TRENT DONLEY (Donley's Electronic Service, Inc.) informed me of an address
correction: 3400 N. FORSYTH Rd., SUITE 4 WINTER PARK FL 32792 1-800-767-6770
(407) 677-0861 FAX: (407)677-4836 EMAIL: DONLEYS@worldnet.att.net Please
make the necessary adjustments to your records.
SWAP & SHOP
A SCHOBER SPINET
MR. CARL WALKER sent the following email message:
I have a Schober Spinet organ that I assembled several years ago. It
has no accessories, no amp, no speaker. I ran out of time and money. Then
Schober ran out. I fooled with it by feeding the signal to the home stereo
system. Not entirely satisfactory. Still, it was fun to build. With regret,
I feel it is time to say goodby to my pal. If you know of someone in the
Florida east coast area that would be interested, have them contact me:
JBYT89A@prodigy.com
A SPECIAL RECITAL
LAWRENCE HEADLEY sent some pictures with his letter ... and they show a
Recital Organ with over twice the number of stop tabs than were part of
the original Schober Recital. It appears to have a DYNABEAT (to the left
of the lower manual). You can contact Lawrence via U.S. mail at: 1137 Nirvana
Rd. Santa Barbara CA 93101 or phone: (805) 687-2106
AND A THEATER ORGAN
DOUG TRURAN writes; "The Schober organ that my father made in the 70's
is a large theater model. It has percussion, Dynabeat, amplifier, speaker,
directions for building, etc." Doug then indicates that it may need some
repairs and goes on to say; "I would be glad to give this to anyone who
will take it all." If you're interested .. here's Doug's mailing address
and phone number: Mr. Douglas Truran P.O. Box 2 E. Wareham MA 02538 Phone:
(508) 295-9289
RODGERS TRIO 321
JOHN BECICA sent the following email: "The Rodgers Trio 321 I bought
in order to get the RL-100 and the RW 3 is currently for sale. It is playable
thru headphones. If you know of anyone who might want a nice three manual
practice theatre organ, let me know. I'm asking $2,200 without speakers.
It's equivalent to seven ranks with some nice tuned and untuned percussions,
including piano, and a metal bar glockenspiel. Also has presets, sforzando,
reverberation, and tape input/output." You can reach John through his email
address: becica@juno.com