RE: Confessions? (Or Elephant on Stork legs)

[warne@mprgate.mpr.ca (Fraser Warne)]

Hi, all:

gstopp@fibermux.com wrote:
    
>      Although I don't know if I should consider you as "the God of Hammond 
>      Organs", you are at the very least a Saint. Therefore I say to you: 
>      "Father, forgive me, for I have sinned." There. Now I can move on to 
>      my next conquest. Hey while I'm at it I should probably confess some 
>      of my other Hammond transgressions - adding solid state stuff to my CV 
>      and Leslie! The list may get a kick out of my strange garage-bred 
>      klooges (hey - how do you spell "klooge" anyway?).
>      

In my experience, it has been spelled "Kludge".  I believe I've
seen it spelled "Kluge" as well.

By the way, I don't think there's anything wrong with a kludge
if it does the job, and works reliably.

>      When I bought the CV it was cut down and stood on four 2" pipes, 
>      looking much like an elephant on stork legs, with the audio output 
>      being an XLR jack to the G-G signals. I wanted a 1/4" output so I 
>      added a little op-amp circuit that also had a percussion thing for the 
>      top manual - B preset permanently having 3rd harmonic with a knob for 
>      decay time. It sounds extremely chuffy and spitty and still looks like 
>      an elephant on stork legs. Next project maybe.
>      

Interesting.  I've been looking at my CV manual and trying to
decide on the best approach for a Percussion Circuit add-on. My
options include a clone of the perc circuit from an M-100 and
a solid-state circuit based on an analog-synthesizer Envelope
Generator and VCA. (Yes, I know I can buy one from Trek-II, but
then I'd miss all of the fun of designing and debugging it)

Can you tell us any more about how this percussion sounded?
Was it a good "Chuffy and Spitty" sound, or a baaaaad one?

Although it would be a novel modification, I don't think I'll 
chop my CV (and use pipes for the legs :^).  My wife bugs me 
enough about having a CV in our living room without it looking 
like an Ostrich!

-Fraser.