Hammond Solovox
By John Grant
This may be slightly off the group's main focus but I'm desperate for information. A retiring piano technician in the area has GIVEN me part of a Hammond "Solovox" system. It consists of a small wooden tone cabinet marked Model J, Series A, with speaker and tone generators, 21" W x 27" H x 5" D. You supposedly "attach" it to your piano with the (separate) keyboard mounted so that it sticks out from under the piano's keybed. It has a tuning knob to match the piano's pitch. Problem: The keyboard is missing. It connects to the tone cabinet with three multi-conductor cables with connectors that look like the bottoms of large vacuum tubes. Of the connectors on the tone cabinet, one has 11 male pins, the second has 11 female sockets and the third has 9 female sockets. Does anyone know where I can obtain the mating keyboard? How many keys is it supposed to have? Does anyone have schematic drawings? Does the keyboard have any circuitry other than simple switch closures for the notes that would preclude using a substitute keyboard when the pin-outs of the connectors are determined? Thanks in advance for any available help. -John Grant jrgrant@dc.infi.net for private replys.
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