From frederick.somerville@gmail.com Wed Jan 04 08:29:15 2012
Subject:Re: Nord Drawbar/sliders

When i said ratchet I did not mean old style Hammond.
More the slightly dented feek of L100 BX3.
The Bx3 has a pontiometer where the actuator is an drawbar.

Frederick Somerville
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4 jan 2012 kl. 17:20 skrev "Mark Zyla" :

> IIRC, the older Hammond organs that use the ratcheted drawbars don't have the favor and following of the models that use the smooth drawbar action. I know my old Hammond tech really disliked the older ones and always made a point to mention it.
> Mark
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "hammondeer" wrote:
> >
> > --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, Frederick Somerville wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > Real drawbars or faders makes no difference for me. I have tested both they
> > > work equally well.
> > > Especially when the drawbars are "Dented" and you get the ratchet feel.
> > > What is important is the travel and distance between the faders and the
> > > knobs.
> >
> > Being fadars they may not be ratchet. (??) The common digital drawbars have a washboard metal side piece that a tiny ball and spring travel on making it 'ratchet'. Doesn't matter as B3s (3series) are smooth and I believe, as an example, KeyB changed to smooth instead of ratchet if I am not mistaken.
> >
> > Fadars can be manufactured *motorized* that I wrote before. ***Probably wrong*** but I am going to guess motorized fadars, again.
> >
> > W.
> >
>

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