Wurlitzer 950 electronic organ features demonstration

Here, I demonstrate how the individual stops, rhythm, and chord features work.

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Science & Technology

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• wurlitzer
• electronic
• organ
• model
• 950
• stops
• features
• demonstration
• rhythm
• chords
• kinura
• tibia

[patsaxon]

I have seen many of your videos with organs that you had obtained. I just wished that I could be so lucky and also have the money?

[retrochad]

@patsaxon I really have not spent that much money on organs...many of them were given to me or bought for $10 or $15. There are only about three of them that cost more than $100.

[democrat99gmailcom]

Love this organ! Could you show more what the great or lower manual stops sound like?

Thanks, Great Videos!

[retrochad]

Thanks for your comments, yes I'll try and make a video showing this.

[paulj0557]

BTW-

If you want a good Wurlitzer then the 625t is awesome!!!! It is smaller and far more attractive than the 950. It's rocks out the popular tunes BECAUSE of it's spinet size and pedals, not in spite of it. It will not get you an accurate theater tone, but certainly can play a nice 1930's piece with those warm tibias. I wish they had a vibrato with more than one setting, but not missed really. The orbit can adds so much movement & mono is fine. It's versatile. NOT an outdated sound at all. Get1

[paulj0557]

Just got a Gulbransen Rialto II yesterday. So with it being a highly regarded organ, and since I own a Wurlitzer 625t ( the baby brother of the Wurlitzer 950 here), I thought I'd give a bit of comparison, IMO of course. The Wurlitzer Co. made the highest quality instruments known to man period.

My 625t ( natural brown fruitwood cabinet) is solid hardwood veneered and is a superior cabinet to the Rialto II. ( keys better on R'II)

R'II's theater tone is superior to anything! (Conn?)

625t 4synth

[paulj0557]

Okay, I had a bit of a brain lapse (lol). It is actually fairly easy to troubleshoot analog electronic organs. Especially from the TOS (transistor oscillator...systems(?)).

The first step in troubleshooting is to look for where supplied voltage ENTERS a circuit. In the case of my Thomas Organ 263, all Thomas' have a diagram inside the lid that shows each PCB & it's function. Having no sound can be traced from the speaker back or at the preamp board. Sure enough,voltages (+12&+8) missing.Fixedit

[paulj0557]

I have a Thomas 263 that for some reason I'm only getting the functions to sound if I tap into the various outputs on the PCB's and take it into one of the pins on the reverb slide pot. If you flick the reverb springs by hand you hear them, yet there is no reverb sound from any of the organ or drum settings that I have touched to this pin. I have no bass pedal at all, no wah ( which is a box mounted to the vol. pdl- does the vol. bypass during wah function?), and I have no perc. Can U help me?

[Noah12278]

Can you do a video abouy the pedals?

[gooproduct]

Dude, I just picked up a Wurlitzer 805 Centura with Orbit III at Salvation Army for $50. It looks as if it's been in a church all of it's life, as it only has a few corner scratches on it. Everything works perfect except two bass pedals which may just need cleaning.

[dieselheart001]

Your 950 looks exactly like my 950TA. I rescued it from a house a friend of mine bought to remodel and resell. It plays wonderfully, but I know very little about it. Thank you for your video!

[rayzatube]

Hey We have on of these 950s its in my room. We got it from a church. It is like brand new. Any idea how much its worth?