Baldwin HT2R after a little cleanup

This is a quick tour of my "new" Baldwin HT2R home organ which I plan on restoring. It currently has some issues. Please forgive the playing as I have been without an organ for quite a while and am out of practice. This was taken with a simple digital camera so audio quality especially in the bass is not the best.

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• Baldwin
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• Restoration
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[lovesavacuum]

(continued from previous post)

The upper is then the swell. Of course the voicing will be different also but the main thing is that you will be finding yourself needing to invert the manual choices in going from one to another. If you can get a used church organ such as an Allen, Rogers etc. it may be a bit easier on you. - mike

[lovesavacuum]

Thank you for your kind words. Something to keep in mind if you are going to make a serious study of the organ is that this instrument and others of the Theater Organ style are going to have the function of the manuals inverted. The top manual being the "solo" manual is the primary while the lower manual is considered the "accompaniment" manual and is secondary with fewer voices and less "body". In a classical or church organ the lower manual will be the "great" and be preeminent.

[lovesavacuum]

Just and update. I got the recalcitrant oscillator to work by replacing the caps and resistors in the tank circuit. Need to do a proper tuning yet but I played for well over a half an hour with the repaired board installed and it worked fine the whole time. A little intermittent while I was twiddling the tuning coil so may be another iffy connection but looks like we are back on line. :)

mike

[marynguyenkk]

I just bought an Organ Baldwin HT2R. I love it but there was not a service manual, Could you please make me a copy of it.

Thanks for the DEMO

[1narizushi]

Wow, awesome demo of the Baldwin HT2R! I'm an organ student at university and am fortunate enough to have an Orgasonic at home for practice. It's a fun little instrument, but I'm now looking for something with something a little bigger. Anyway, stumbled across your video while hunting for a video demo of another model I'm looking at locally. You do a great job putting your instrument through its paces. I love your enthusiasm!

[lovesavacuum]

@Riskteven

This is more like a luggable (remember the original compaq portable?). :) I figure she will be using ear buds for the out and about stuff. This is more like take it over to a friend's dorm type of thing and the quality is good enough for a main stereo for a lot of folks.

mike

[Riskteven]

@lovesavacuum Good! The only problem with tubes is portability though. Need a few heavy lead cells if you want to bring the music to the café, on the bus, etc.

[lovesavacuum]

@Riskteven

You can see my video on KT-88 and mini-console speaker beta test to see what I am up to with the iPod dock. She is quite pleased with the sound of the amplifier section. I am getting ready to start wiring the preamp and next payday will order some woofers as I have come to the conclusion that the FRs need some help below 100Hz for best results.

mike

[Riskteven]

@lovesavacuum Finally a way to get some juice out of those too-silent players. They have even on loudest volume a level that is not loud enough. So it needs a true amplifier and tubes are great as it could probably produce very high amplitudes without distortion. Endure to use head phones that can take those levels without crackling, or use speakers.

[lovesavacuum]

...I mention strings since tib/flutes and string/reeds are on separate channels and have their own reverb so it is possible that one of the amplifiers is inop or disconnected.

Either will do theater but the HT2 is more capable all around. If they are both free the obvious answer is get both esp. since you can use the pedal board of the 4500 anyway. If you end up parting one out it is surely a better fate than it would otherwise face. Could chop the 4500 for portable midi project.