STOP SPECIFICATION

PEDAL	ACCOMP	GREAT	SOLO
32' Contra Bourdon	8' Post Horn	16' Tibia Clausa	16' Post Horn
16' Tuba Horn	8' Brass Trumpet	16' Vox Humana	8' Post Horn
16' Diaphone	8' Tuba Horn	8' Brass Trumpet	8' Tuba
16' Tibia Clausa	8' Diaphone	8' Tuba Horn	8' Tibia
16' Bourdon	8' Horn Diapason	8' Open Diapason	8' Orch Oboe
8' Tibia Clausa	8' Tibia Clausa	8' Tibia Clausa	8' Kinura
8' Bass Flute	8' Clarinet	8' Clarinet	8' Sax & Vox
16' Piano	8' Strings	8' Orchestral Oboe	4' Tibia
8' Piano	8' Cello	8' Kinura	8' Piano
Bass Drum	8' Oboe Horn	8' Saxophone	Glock
Jazz Cymbal	8' French Horn	8' Viol D' Orch	Xylophone
Brush Cymbal	8' Quintadena	8' Quintadena	Chrys Sub
	8' Concert Flute	8' Concert Flute	Chimes
Toe Studs	8' Vox Humana	8' Vox Humana	16' Solo Sub Octave
Bass & Crash	8' Salicional II	5 ^1/3' Fifth Tibia	8' Unison Off
Snare Roll	4' Octave	4' Tibia Clausa	Great On Solo
Gong	4' Octave Horn	2 ^2/3' Nazard (Tibia)
Train Whistle	4' Tibia Clausa	2' Piccolo (Tibia)	Generals
	4' Strings	1 ^3/5' Tierce (Tibia)	Flute Cel ON
Miscellaneous	2 ^2/3' Tibia Clausa	1 ^1/3' Larigot (Tibia)	String Cel OFF
Re-set Organ	2' Tibia Clausa	1' Fife (Tibia)	Perc. Re-It
General Cancel	8' Piano	8' Piano	Perc. Un-Expr
Vol Control	Harp Sub	Xylophone	Piano sustain
Set	Harp	Chrysoglott
Tab Rail Lights	Chrysoglott	Glockenspiel	Swell Pedals
	Brush Cymbal	16' Great Sub Octave	Swell
	Wood Block	8' Unison Off	Kick Switch
	Tambourine	4' Great Octave	Crescendo
	Castanets	16' Solo Sub To Great
		8' Solo To Great	Pistons
	Tremulants	8' Solo To Great Pizz	Div Solo 8
	Main	Sostenuto	Div Great 8
	Solo	Melody	Generals 10
	Tibia/Vox/Sax
	Strings
	Clarinet
	Tuba Horn
	Brass Trumpet

Connoisseur Palladium Specification

3 x 61 note manuals

32 note AGO pedal board

Audio

Echo Audio Fire 12 Ch

Roland Cakewalk

Midi Interface

Monitor

Acer TH30 Touch

Computer

HP 6005

Ram 12 gig

Windows7

Home Premium 64bit

500g HD 2

Speakers

Behringer Truth 2031A x 8

Fusion x 2

Yamaha Sub Woofer

Conn Pipes Sets 3

The Connoisseur Palladium.

In a new Home. June 2013.

The new home has a lounge room with a cathedral ceiling, which provides just the right amount of reverb.

The Audio set-up has 10 self powered studio monitors and three sets of Conn organ pipes and a Yamaha subwoofer.

The flutes and strings are channelled through the pipes and the celestes are fed through the appropriate chamber.

The large sets has the C/C# audio and the small set is fed from the centre channel of the Yamaha surround sound amp. This certainly makes the strings sing.

The main chamber speakers.

The solo chamber speakers.

The Connoisseur Palladium

October 2012

Since I met Owen Jones I have had many great experiences in the VTPO world. His expertise amazes me and his enthusiasm is boundless.

Owen first converted my Conn652 to enable it to run Neil Jensen's Connoisseur ranks a couple of years ago and I have been wanting to have a completely digital organ ever since. The 652 performed very well but I had so much hanging off the back of it that it was a bit of a nightmare.

I had some good luck middle of 2012 when I heard that there was a Conn653 (not working) available for sale and I made an offer to the owners and they accepted.

It had not been used for many years and was in a bit of a sorry state but everything I needed was on it so I had it delivered.

Owen journeyed to my place in Dakabin Queensland and worked frantically for two weeks to strip the console in readiness for the refit.

^{Some Sorting out to DO!}

^{Owen ordered Artisan equipment for the re fit and it has
been incredible to me that so much output comes through just a hand full of
boards.

Owen stripped every length of wire from the console and
then used a lot of it again in the re fit, which saved a lot of dollars not
having to buy it again. I still have a box as big as a tea chest nearly full
of wire that will have to be disposed of some time.

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've
Seen!

Owen asked me what I wanted in the final
specification and I told him I wanted the Conn tab rail re designated to
suit the Connoisseur 3/19 specification. I wanted him to choose voices for
the tabs to make it a fabulous organ if it was only being played from the
tab rail.

Wiring up the Toe Studs.

The touch screen was available to add or
subtract voices at will while playing from the tab rail. This gave me a
great organ that anybody could sit down and play from the tab rail if they
were too timid to use the touch screen.

The next thing I wanted was to use all 12 channels on the
Echo Audiofire12 instead of the 10 that I used on the Conn652. I have two
sets of Conn 146 left and right pipes, and one set of Conn 145 pipes and
Owen has connected these in the channel arrangement. The strings are
diverted through these pipes and sound terrific (in my opinion anyway).

Wiring the Keyboards. Ugh!

I bought two more Behringer Truth 2031A
speakers and these have improved my sound system a lot.
I always wanted toe pistons on my organ
and have them at last. Ian and Glenda Kubler had bought some from Classic
Organ Works at a very good price and sold six of them to me for my
Palladium. These are used for crash cymbal, gong, train, siren, bell tree,
and birds. I may change a couple of these to general registrations yet.

Installing the Artisan Micro Midi
Boards.

The Conn653 had plenty of pistons
and Owen used every one of them to my advantage.
I now have general and divisional pistons
and have the advantage also of the touch screen to subtract or add voices to
the piston selection.

I am still using the same computer that I used on the
Conn652 but have added another 8Gigs of ram to make it more dependable.
Before Owen arrived I had a computer techie upgrade the computer from 32 bit
to Windows home premium 64bit technology.

Screw in those boards!

The computer runs Windows7 Home Premium because touch
screens will not interface with anything less than that.

New Toe Studs, Merv's work, nice job.

What to do next:

There is a considerable amount of work to
do yet, mainly on the voicing of the instrument.
I think it sounds wonderful because of the
Connoisseur ranks and their magnificent clarity but have to admit that it
all needs work to stop some ranks from screeching, and give others a
boost in output. That's a two man job and I will get around to it as soon as
I can with a lot of help from Arthur Midgley. Arthur is another VTPO crank
who is 87 and still improving his converted Conn
650 . He loaded the Paramount 3/20 into his and it sounds terrific.

Mad Scientists.

I work my troops hard!

The Finished Product

.

I will eventually replace two JAYCAR party speakers, two
Jensen shelf speakers, and two amplifiers with Behringer Truth 2031A
speakers. This will give me 10 Behringers and three sets of Conn pipes and
will cut down the space requirement for the whole outfit.

Another important thing to do is to
replace the tabs that have paper stick-on labels on them to re-name the
voice.

Neil Jensen has very kindly given me
permission to call my VTPO

The Connoisseur Palladium

My sincere thanks to Owen Jones and his brilliance for
setting me up with my dream instrument.}