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#1
Electronic Organs / Emminent Organ Maintenance
August 17, 2014, 04:36:25 PM
Greetings Folks hope all is well?

I've long moved away from my last Church the one with the Johannus, and now very happily play at another parish with another one combined.  It's the best move I've ever made to be honest!

In my other two Churches, we have two Eminent Organs which are very decent and been there for about 15 years or so and sound good,

But one of the organs always have ongoing issues i.e Mice Eating the Pedal Buffers and so forth, the latest saga at the moment with this organ is a broken reed switch on the pedals and "sound issues" meaning when pressing the notes, they can be very distant when coming through or don't sound at all, I got in touch with the guy who deals with the organ and he says it's a cross between the "generation system" to amplifiers"

The real problem is the guy who maintains our Organs at the Church no issues but he comes all the way from Heartfordshire, and he never comes on time, i.e 2pm and he will arrive at 4pm but does seem to charge quite a bit, but in fairness he does get the job done.  The last time he came a few months back got delayed by 5 hours hence the traffic!

As you will now I'm based in Swansea,South Wales, and what I'm wondering do any of you know who repairs and services Eminents abit more nearer home?

Would be grateful for your input.

Cheers
Rob
#2
Electronic Organs / Eminent Organs Fault
December 18, 2013, 09:05:52 PM
Hi everyone I hope your all well?

I have in the last few months moved onto another Church with two very decent Organs which are Eminents very impressed with the sound.

The Other Eminent in recent weeks wasn't working and to cut a long story short an Organ Techie came to the Church last Thursday to get it going again and all was well, the next day I went along to get used of the Organ and I then I find "Middle C" on the Pedal Board was  starting to consistently stick and the only way to unstick it was to "Jiggle it abit" Still the problem remains.

Today after a Funeral service one of the wardens and myself had a good look at the pedal board to try and source the problem, and one of the "felts" had come off resulting in a "Clacking Sound" when the pedal is pressed, we may have further look at this next week.

I suggested to the Church Officials that we should get the Eminent Guy to come back to take a look at this, he has to come from Heartfordshire which is a long way to travel which looks to prove costly.

Anyway I''m wondering do you know of someone that repairs Eminent Instruments and is near to the South Wales area?

Many Thanks

Rob

#3
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Old-welsh-Chapel-Pipe-Organ-1909-/290746603184?pt=UK_MusicalInstr_Keyboard_RL&hash=item43b1d916b0

It appears someone had started a thread in this forum "Edward Dean"

Anyway the Chapel is located in Ystalyfera called Gurnos Independent Chapel in the Swansea Valley

I went to play this organ on Friday and made some videos of it you will find them on my youtube channel "RobCharles1981" I have to say it's a very nice sounding organ and deserves to have a new home, I would like to see this Organ going to a Chapel in the Swansea area.

I too personally think the "Buy it now price" is some what of a Joke at £10,000 as far as I'm aware they have not had informal interest.

Best Regards
Rob
#4
Well Its about time I posted here so hi all!  :)

In One of my main Church's I play I have a Johannus Opus 1105 Organ which was purchased From Makin Organs back in 2001, the organ was built around 1980-1990's and it was brought second hand From what I understand the warranty for the organ has expired way back in 2002.  And since this time Makin Organs have "maintained" it but since last year they came and more or less "mucked it up"

[] I wanted someone else to maintain the organ I was recommended Anthony Bogdan Organ's about maintaining it,  [but] at that point the recent organ maintenance was booked by the Church without my knowing and I felt rather cross nothing was done about this at all.

When I spoke to KH he said the PCC Secretary and Warden didn't want me there and I was livid in the way I was treated and I told him I was going to have a chat with the local Diocesan Organ Advisor and he gave me some good advice about it and tried to speak to my vicar about this which backfired, []  all hell broke loose one Sunday Morning.   You can understand how I felt.

The Church insit Makin Organs for the future and i'm blocked out on communication with them and I'm not having this at all from what I gather the church spent at least £250 for a full service on the organ what a con!!

Another Organ Friend of mine I told him about this and was livid too he recommend me Ormatronix Organs have any forum members have dealings with the guy who runs this and if so what is he like?

Hope you can help.

Cheers

Rob