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Thanks Electroking.
I couldn't let this organ get trashed. The cabinet is beautiful, and we have always wanted something like this to play with.
I was looking for a big Baldwin, since I have a pair of nice Baldwin tone cabinets, but this came along.
The Allen company told me this organ was built in April of 1955, and was sold to someone in Chicago. How it wound up in Asheville, NC, is the little mystery. The people that donated it to the thrift store told them that it worked. There's no way, as the 5U4G rectifier on the amplifier chassis was missing. I tested it for the thrift store, and after I told them it would only work with some work, they told me to haul it off, if I wanted it. So, here we are.
I'm going to sub some of the electrolytics on the big power supply chassis. An Allen tech sent me email to let him know what I find. How about that?!! A 55 year old organ, and they are willing to help me with it!
I forgot to mention, when I got it, the expression (volume) pedal was broken. It's pot metal. The Allen company GAVE me a new pot metal assembly that I simply had to transfer parts onto the new one from the old assembly. I tried to pay for it, but they told me they were just happy to see one of these old instruments being saved!
Bruce
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