[HAM] Overdrive

[Don Erickson]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, OF wrote:

> The only problem is that it is based on not very many organs, plus, as I 
> said, some of his blanket statements about recapping seem to be very 
> much overgeneralized.

> I speak from personal experience.

That's fine, Scott, but your personal recapping experience also is based 
on "not very many organs".

Certainly recapping is historically THE online Hammond religious argument. 
It seems to me that several facts here are accepted by both sides:

-Wax caps drift substantialy over the decades.
-Replacing these caps will brighten the organ, more closely approximating
   the sound when the organ was new (although because each cap/magnet was
   calibrated as a unit, the relative balance of the organ may be adversely
   affected).
-Any individual owner/listener may find the recapped organ better or worse
   than it was before it was recapped.
-Any moron who thinks a shrill, recapped organ sounds better is a drooling,
   half-deaf stoned power-monkey who couldn't find a dimished chord with both
   hands.
-Any moron who thinks a dull, lifeless, non-recapped organ sounds better
   is a drooling, half-deaf jazz fossil who hasn't had a fresh idea since the
   Eisenhower Administration.


Regards,

-Don: Overgeneralizations, Cheap!