[HAM] What is this?

[David Anderson]

I bought a C-3 just outside San Diego when I lived in California, and  
it also had neon tubes under the manuals, red and green. I was going  
to tear it all out, but when I looked at the installation, it was so  
well done that I decided to leave the tubes and wiring in as a  
curiosity. The ballast is bolted to the underside of the organ, and  
the system does work. It makes a godawful hum, though, if you try to  
run the organ and the neon at the same time....

The term "people with too much time on their hands" comes to mind.

Does anyone know how the fad of putting neon tubes under the manuals  
got started?

As for holes on the drawbars--could they have been "stops" so someone  
could push the drawbars in, but couldn't push them all the way in?

David A.

On May 20, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Dennis Michael Wage wrote:

> I recently bought a 1964 b3 #93380.
>
> It must have been in a smokey club for years.  It had orange and  
> green neon
> lights under the keys and a pretty blue one to light up the pedals.
>
> It also had an organ mate spring reverb in it.  I had Murph remove
> everything and do his magic on the organ.  It's a gem.
>
> But, check this out http://dennis.hammondb3organ.net/holes.jpg
>
> This is a pic of the 16' and 5 1/3' upper manual B flat drawbars.
>
> Why would anyone drill 2 holes right there?
>
> -DWAGE
>