However music is my number one and I worked in a music shop in Jersey Channel Isles where I repaired keyboards and accordions.Īfter years of use you may find your Yamaha Clavinova suffers from noisy key action. Whilst working for British Leyland Truck & Bus division I took an electronics course in TV and radio servicing, and for a good number of years I was a Grundig TV and video repair engineer. With only two service centres being over 150 miles away from home I soon decided to get to grips with electronics.
So as a working musician who just loved to play good meaty bass I kept having trouble with notes not playing. The bass sound was particularly good but the vibration played havoc with the plugs and sockets of the circuits. The feed from the cabinet to the accordion was by way of a fat composite cable of 125 individual strands. Like it’s near relative the electronic organ, it had a fine array of tones and percussive stops to mix with the sounds of the accordion reeds The electronics were housed in a large wheel around cabinet which also contained all the speakers.
The electronics were basically a very near copy of the Lowrey Holiday organ with 12 basic tone generator oscillators which were frequency divided to provide a full 41 piano key treble side and the lower frequencies to provide the 12 basic bass and counterbass tones along with the mixtures of frequencies to feed all the chords in the Stradella bass. I first got interested in electronics when I switched from acoustic accordion to the Cordovox developed by Chicago Musical Instruments and marketed by Farfisa.
What made me study musical instrument electronic repairs? Send me your details and the nature of the fault by way of the facility on my contact page. I can offer a repair service to most makes of accordion (including midi) and the following makes of popular keyboards and organs including Yamaha,Clavinova ,Korg, Roland, Technics, Farfisa & Casio.