Re: need chorale speed on lower rotor?

["Steve Runyon" <p00866@psilink.com>]

>On one of my Leslies, chorale speed isn't working (a solid-state 760, which
>I never used much anyhow).  The real difficulty I found without the slow
>speed was that the rotor comes to rest in random spots (with respect to a
>front-mounted microphone).

I've seen Leslies onstage that have three states: fast, slow, and stop. 
Additionally, when in the stop position, the horns and rotor come to 
rest pointing forward. Has anyone else seen such a Leslie? How would 
this be done?

I first noticed this on the "Frampton Comes Alive" concert at my college 
in 1976. There were four leslies, one at each corner of the stage. They 
all had the rear (open) side pointing towards the audience, and all 
seemed to spin in sync, best I could tell. When they went to the "stop" 
setting the lower rotor beautifully swung around one last time and 
locked in the forward position with a small final wiggle, almost like 
it had been grabbed by a magnet or something.

My stock Leslie switch has three positions. The center position is the 
same as chorale. The fact that there is a center detent at all implies 
to me that perhaps some stock Leslies do have a stop position. Anyone 
care to comment on why there is a center detent?

-steve-

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