Hi Mechanical Music Digest Members!  My name is Vicki Webb.  My sons
and I have a small business of building, restoring, and repairing
classic instruments.  We started our business several years ago
repairing instruments as a hobby.

Today, we build organ pipes, actions, chests, and percussion engines.
Our latest product is the Pooker 120 Military Style Band Organ.  This
instrument will make it's first public debut later this year at Old
Town Music Hall here in El Segundo, California.  We are also building a
baby grand player piano.  Both of these instruments are midi controlled
and we are in the process of interfacing several roll readers to midi.

We will post some interesting articles on MMD of our research and
development into "traditional organ technology".  We still believe that
if it is original, and works, don't fix it!  Our band organ has the
classic look and sound of a Wurlitzer 165.  We use the same families of
pipes and percussion.  The difference shows when we add ranks of pipes
never before found on a band organ.  It has been referred to as more of
a mini theatre organ!  The more reliable electric actions have also
increased reliability by at least 80%!

We also provide support to Old Town Music Hall.  This includes anything
that may be necessary to keep the Wurlitzer playing and the projectors
running classic films.  The latest item on our fix-it list is to try and
find a Wyse WY-30 Monitor P.N. 500023-08 for the Devtronix Computer that
controls the organ.  This computer is the prototype for the Devtronics
line of controllers.  The old monitor has a bad flyback transformer and
is need of either a transformer or a new (good used) monitor.  Anyone
having such an animal could donate it to the theatre or sell it to us
so WE can donate it.  The organ is fully playable now  but we still
need to get the rest of the system back in shape.

"Film at 11:00"     ;)

Vicki Webb

Victoria Webb Western Regional Technical Director
Seventails Productions / Pooker Organ Division
http://www.seventails.com

 [ Hi, Vicki, and welcome aboard.  I was very impressed with the organ
 [ pipes you showed me, which you said you refined "on the smoke table".
 [ (No, they weren't scorched -- it's a method of analyzing air flow!)
 [ I hope you will tell us what you learned, and also of your novel
 [ method of assembling pipes.  We'll stay tuned!   -- Robbie
 [
 [ P.S. "Pooker" is the resident feline at Seventails Productions;
 [ every good organ shop has a cat to inspect everything!  :)