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Volume Two - Issue Two
The Control Room - Richard Mogridge - Webmaster
Walnut Hill Productions DAILY NEWS02/20/2005Greetings from the Bone Doctor. God bless all who come here. I want to thank the 845 visitors to our site this year. We are totalling 9,795 visitors so far! The Conn 640 Theatre Organ gets its own page!
The vintage 1964 Conn model 640 Vacuum Tube Theatre Organ at Walnut Hill Recording Studio now has its very own feature page located in the Bone Doctor's section. Enjoy! Greetings from the Bone Doctor. God bless all who come here. I want to thank the 550 visitors to our site this year. We had 8,950 visitors in the nine months we ran the site in 2004. We look to break that record in 2005! The Conn 640 Sings Again!
The Bone Doctor. at the console of As some of you may know (and for those of you who don't,) the Bone Doctor is the proud owner of a vintage 1964 Conn Model 640 vacuum tube theatre organ. This instrument was aquired last year from Rose Music Company of Lousville, Tennessee, where it had been sitting, languishing into the forgotten back room where organs go to be serviced. For twenty years it sat there, waiting on someone to love it enough to take it home. When the Bone Doctor found it, almost nothing worked on the console. Undaunted, he hauled it home. The Bone Doctor installed it in the Walnut Hill Studio. There, it sat for several months, waiting on the hand of a technician who could fix it. That technician was a fine fellow from Newport, Tennessee named Bob "Finge" Burgess, fellow Walnut Hill VTPO member and a great friend of many years. Bob, armed only with an oscilloscope and voltmeter, went in without schematics and found two defective components. One was a 50uF 25 working volt electrolytic capacitor at the Tibia mixer stage. A trip to Radio Shack replaced this. The other was a special resistor network called a PC pack that was located in the keyers for the 4 foot Tibia at high B on the Solo manual. This part was ordered from Organ Supply and arrived three days later, wherein Bob put in the new part and now, the instrument sounds the way it did when it was new. In other news, the Bone Doctor now has a full-time job as a bench technician at Thasay Computer, Inc. of Knoxville, Tennessee. He averages thirty computers per week on his bench, all leaving the shop in perfect working order. He also builds new ones. You can visit his team leader's website at: |