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Lowry Celebration C-500 Organ
I have an opportunity to get a Lowry Celebration C-500 organ.
Unfortunately it has some problems. I believe that the instrument was made in the late 1970s. 1. All C# and A# are out. Mutations on the same notes are OK. I assume that it is in the tone generators some place - possibly even the same chip. 2. There is weak and distorted sound on pedals and the lower keyboard. Upper sounds great except for the dead notes. Does anyone have any ideas on these two problems and would it be worth fixing? |
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Lowry Celebration C-500 Organ
Some of these organs suffered from bad connector/connections to the
tone generator boards. Try wiggling the associated tone boards. Also swap a good tone board with a non-working tone board, the pitch will be wrong, but it will tell you if the other circuitry is ok. Strongly recommend you get the schematic if you can read one, it will save much agony. H. R. (Bob) Hofmann hugh wrote: I have an opportunity to get a Lowry Celebration C-500 organ. Unfortunately it has some problems. I believe that the instrument was made in the late 1970s. 1. All C# and A# are out. Mutations on the same notes are OK. I assume that it is in the tone generators some place - possibly even the same chip. 2. There is weak and distorted sound on pedals and the lower keyboard. Upper sounds great except for the dead notes. Does anyone have any ideas on these two problems and would it be worth fixing? |
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Lowry Celebration C-500 Organ
Here is some info on Lowery:
There web site is: http://www.lowrey.com/ Last time I bought parts for a Lowrey (back in 1999), I found them he Keyboard Systems 1-801-943-7888 Good luck Tony "hugh" wrote in message ups.com... I have an opportunity to get a Lowry Celebration C-500 organ. Unfortunately it has some problems. I believe that the instrument was made in the late 1970s. 1. All C# and A# are out. Mutations on the same notes are OK. I assume that it is in the tone generators some place - possibly even the same chip. 2. There is weak and distorted sound on pedals and the lower keyboard. Upper sounds great except for the dead notes. Does anyone have any ideas on these two problems and would it be worth fixing? |
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Lowry Celebration C-500 Organ
hugh wrote: I have an opportunity to get a Lowry Celebration C-500 organ. Unfortunately it has some problems. I believe that the instrument was made in the late 1970s. 1. All C# and A# are out. Mutations on the same notes are OK. I assume that it is in the tone generators some place - possibly even the same chip. 2. There is weak and distorted sound on pedals and the lower keyboard. Upper sounds great except for the dead notes. Does anyone have any ideas on these two problems and would it be worth fixing? I'd look to the divide down circuitry. There is a master oscillator and all the tones are derived from that through divide down. Sounds like a couple of dead outputs. |
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Lowry Celebration C-500 Organ
hugh wrote: I have an opportunity to get a Lowry Celebration C-500 organ. Unfortunately it has some problems. I believe that the instrument was made in the late 1970s. 1. All C# and A# are out. Mutations on the same notes are OK. I assume that it is in the tone generators some place - possibly even the same chip. 2. There is weak and distorted sound on pedals and the lower keyboard. Upper sounds great except for the dead notes. Does anyone have any ideas on these two problems and would it be worth fixing? If you can get it for a good price it is definitly worth repairing, The C-500 was a top line instrument. I worked for Lowrey for several years, I may be able to give you some advice on repairing it. |
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