I'm sorry, but I do not have schematics for this organ in digital format, so you have to look for them elsewhere. :(
This particular organ was used by Finnish organ genius, Jukka Gustavson since winter 1969-1970. Jukka bought it from Leo Lindblom after he had lost similar organ on a car crash. Organ was sold in late 80's / early 90's to Tapio Niemelä. He sold it again later to Petri Rannikko, and I got it from him in August 2004.
This Lowrey was used on Wigwam's records Fairyport and Being. On earlier albums Jukka used organs located in the studios albums were recorded. Mostly Finnvox's Hammond L-100.
Painting on the back cover is done by Jukka's wife Leena. It is just some stuff without relations to any Wigwam songs or albums. The painting was done in mid-70's, when Jukka no longer played in Wigwam but with his new band Sahti instead. The painting can be seen well on this video. Sadly, Jukka doesn't play the organ on that particular song.
I'm going to restore this organ technically. Key contacts and all switches will be cleaned and all PSU and some other capacitors will be changed.
2005-08-10: Finally, some progress!
I finally got the organ home from storage and I've already
cleaned the key contacts and washed the keys. An enormous
amount of dust and dirt was removed. :) Tomorrow it's
time to clean all the rocker tabs and recap the PSU.
2005-11-28: Some more progress!
Argh. It took too long. However, the organ is FINALLY
recapped! Currently I'm waiting for a friend of mine
to come here and help me putting it all back together.
I look very forward getting the organ to playable
condition tomorrow!
2007-03-31: Slow progress...
It's interesting how much a day job can slow down an
organ repair... Anyway, about an year ago the organ was
finally put together again. A week ago a new connector
panel (including line out with adjustable volume)
plus a new power switch was installed.
Today I got (almost) all
registerations on the upper manual to work again!
What I still have to do is to replace a bunch of the
neon lamps used in dividers plus clean some of the
rocker switches. Also some keys still do not work.
I assume I could finish the repair.... this year.
2007-07-11: Sound samples!
I recorded some sound
samples with the organ. As you can hear there's still
contact problems etc. here & there, but at least from
the short blues jam you can hear that maybe there's some
point repairing this... It sounds pretty f*cking good!
© Matti Kari