Re: X-66 tab keys

["Steve Blair" <Steve_Blair@macmail.lbl.gov>]

>Does anyone know where I might find replacement tabs for the XYLOPHONE
>& GLOKEN-SPIEL (sort of a dark tan color)?????   I guess I could try
>and glue them - but I have a feeling I'd be much better off replacing
>them - even though the manual shows this to be a fairly hard task....
>
>randy guttery
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Randy:
Try the Organ Service Company   708 352-8011 or at web site:
http://206.26.97.48/mita/hammond
I think I saw a discription of those tabs (with labels) at about $3.50 ea.

For inspiration, an article in an early 1969 issue of Hammond Times shows
them building X-66's.  Email me direct if you would like to see the article.

On a similar note, I just played the first X-77 ever sold in the State of
Montana back in about '68 (I know, BFD).  It was willed to a friend of mine,
here in the Bay Area, by her mother.  It's been sitting idle in my friend's
living room since it's delivery last fall because she didn't know how to hook
it up.  The 9-pin cable had been snipped off at the Custom (and beautifully
massive) Leslie cabinet.  I resoldered each wire (very carefully) and fired
it up.  I started playing a few chords and pulling drawbars when I realized
my friend was in tears.  She said the Hammond/Leslie sound brought back vivid
memories of her mother at the organ.  None the less, she was happy that the
organ was "alive" again as was, even more, the spirit of her mother.

Steve in Berkeley