wurly no. 1
finally finally finally!
Wurlitzer Electric Piano 206A No. 1 has been shipped. To Andy Chadwick no less. It was the first that I powered up and I intended it to be the one I kept. But Andy got antsy for the one I’d promised him and this one had the most promise, so I got to work.
The mods and other things I now have done:
- rewired power
- cut a hole in the top for the new power socket
- tuned one of those crazy reeds (one of the G’s was a bit flat)
- detached the top from the base
- rewired the headphone jack so it didn’t go via the base
- wired a line-out jack
- cleaned off the scratches in the keys (many have been scratched with letters)
- replaced a fuse (not a trivial job, as it turns out)
Shipping weight? 64.2 lb.
Basically the only thing I haven’t done that I want to try is the vibrato kit, to make the sound identical to the 200A.
Now to turn this place into an assembly line and get nos. 2-20 out the door.
February 14th, 2005 at 4:33 pm
where’d you find a box big enough for that thing?
February 14th, 2005 at 4:53 pm
A 46″x20″x12″ box can be purchased from the UPS store for $22. Anyone have any ideas where I could get one for cheaper? I looked online and they were $5.50 each but not only did I need to purchase 15 at a time, but they were too big to be shipped UPS so the shipping would have been a ton.