From bcarr22@hotmail.com Mon Mar 28 19:31:12 2011
Subject:Re: Crumar Mojo


As a newbie organ player and a serious shopper for a clonewheel, this is one of the very few times I feel qualified to comment here.

Whatever pseudo-wooden double-manual clonewheel I end up with, be it C2, XK-3C or Crumar Mojo, I plan to build my own wooden "mini-B3" stand (along the lines of what is offered for the Hamichord). No massive steel keyboard stand for me. I'll fabricate two small removable steel shelf brackets that will bolt to the rear of the stand using threaded inserts in the wood, reaching upward and extending whatever flat area is available on top of the clonewheel for the placement of another lightweight keyboard. Given my proverbial amateur status, that will probably only be a Korg PS60 or Roland Juno Stage. Alas, a Triton is beyond my pay grade. Doubtful my playing would do it justice, anyway. ;-)

The placement of the knobs in question isn't a total deal-breaker for me, but it does illustrate how quite often, in an effort to surprise the market, manufacturers overlook a simple solution or benefit that end-users see as quite obvious. An email or two to some of the experts here in the group (not me, for sure) could have saved some development time and money.

Sorry, Guido. It's just good ole American ingenuity at work. When we see something used a certain way, we're programmed to try to figure out how to turn it upside down and around to use it a different way than was originally intended. Not saying Americans are better than anybody else; we're just crazy about reconfiguring and recycling things.

If the Mojo sounds great, has two manuals and is in the $2k ballpark, I'll probably get one, knobs on top or not.

For the record, I'd prefer not. (That is, NOT having the knobs on top.)

BC

PS: If StudioLogic expanded the Numa Organ line to include a double manual version, I might look more seriously at them. I could build a mini-B3 stand painted white and join a Lynrd Skynrd tribute band. "Freebird, Dude!" ;-)

To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
From: bobbysimons@optonline.net
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:30:57 +0000
Subject: [CWSG] Re: Crumar Mojo








>Unfortunately, moving the buttons on the panel below the drawbars is impossible because there are the keys over there, there's no room to fit the PCB with all the components.

Never mind, I'll move them myself. I have tools, and I'm not afraid to use them.

>

> And then, why should you stack another keyboard right on a keyboard that small?

Because it is a time-honored keyboardist's tradition that largely fell to the wayside with the slew of un-stackable plastic slabs that overtook the industry. I used to defy gravity, physics, and common sense with the piles I'd erect, shoving a mike stand under the uppermost ones if there was a danger of it all tipping back on me. And it looked friggin' cool. ;-)








[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]