[HAM] mylar

[JOHN HABURAY]

Maybe the caps had aged differently, as Kon pointed
   
  John Haburay Writes,
  My experience has been that mylar does not age" or breakdown" as I like to call it anywhere near how the old waxers did. I have recapped hundreds of organs and to this day, I may use red mylar or old orange mylar or newer poly caps. I doesn't matter to me. What ever I feel like using, have the most of, am looking for originality a bit etc.I personally have no preference. Even with total rebuilds rarely to any two Hammonds ever sound identical when I am done, but they are all very close and certainly very nice sounding. Would I take a mylar organ and recap it. Probably not unless there was a mechanical problem with the job that was done previous or the caps were simply the wrong values. I am not saying replacing mylar with mylar does nothing, I am saying that in most cases a waste of time and there should and probably would not be any significant difference in sound based on the makeup of the caps alone.-----John



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