Repairing Deleika 20-key Organ
By Ingmar Krause
Mike Knudson wrote:
> Many thanks to the several private and public responders to my 20-note
> Deleika organ queries. The overwhelming consensus is that I have a leak
> in my bellows or chest, probably a cracked end grain or cloth slipped off
> a board end, and I must find and fix that before anything else.
I do not agree :) but I can't say that there is no leak, too, for I simply couldn't take a look and ear at it. ;)
> I timed it last night and the reservoir bellows takes only three seconds
> to collapse completely after being filled, once I stop cranking with no
> notes sounding. I'd expect ten seconds or more would be normal, and one
> person said to look for a whole minute! It's time to remove the bellows
> and see...
I haven't stopped it so far, but the Raffin one (the little 20/31) - at least ours - doesn't seem to get more then five seconds to collapse.
> There are screws for adjusting the bleeds for best repetition, but no
> adjustments I can see to regulate the flow to each pipe.
This is something I definitely wouldn't change anyway.
Now I have to re-cut your mail to get things together:
> I bought it used, so I have no idea how it played when new, although I think
> the wind supply and melody pipes were a tad better when I first got it.
That makes things difficult, but it confirms my thought of this organ never been playing better.
About the pipes: they were a tad better?!? That's amazing! Normally, pipes are getting better the more you play and store them :)
> Ingmar Krause confirmed my suspicion that Deleika under-engineered
> the wind supply (*snip*)
> I'd heard that Deleika once worked for Raffin and copied his designs.
> But I guess he had to make his own mistakes?
Well, I thought I told so; the 20/31 by Mr. Raffin has the same problem: insufficient wind-creation and storage.
therefore:
yes, - one of the partners of the Deleika-firm had been working for Raffin until he decided to build those organs himself
yes, - he copied his design and system, but in a less quality (to be cheaper)
yes, - he has made his own mistakes, but he also copied the original ones (!)
> (*snip*) (and also made sure I can't sell this organ to anyone
> on the MMD List :-) I already tried once, at the MBSI convention
> in Chicago, to sell this organ to buy a bigger one -- preferably 31 notes
> with a register or two. (Having studied the organ and Bach, I don't
> consider it an _organ_ if it doesn't have stops :-)
Sorry for you, but everyone else on this list is very thankful for that! ;) That you tried to sell it to buy a bigger one is a good sign for me: you learn by your mistakes ;)) (just kidding)
> Anyway, I still enjoy the organ and usually crank through an Elvis Presley
> tune or two every day (amazing what you can get cut onto a roll).
(Just nosy - ;) These titles?
Love me tender
One night
Crying in the chapel
There goes my evrything
Can't help falling in love
or others, too?
> Thanks again,
> Mike Knudsen
greetings by(e) InK
Ingmar Krause
ERlanger drehORGEL-Trio, Familie Krause, erorgelt@balloon.franken.de |
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