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    ELECTRONIC ORGAN 
    CONSTRUCTORS' SOCIETY

    Don Bray's "Womblitzer III"
    
      For some years now the original WombliTzer (inspired by a North 
    American organ but made from ‘things other folk left behind’) has 
    been seen on the web site.  Like many EOCS instruments this is a 
    ‘Continuous Organ’. The builder hopes to be improving and ‘tweaking’ 
    until the day he dies.
    
      There is a story in the Society of a member, well past retirement 
    age, whose wife bought him a box of large woodscrews for his birthday 
    but he still didn’t take the hint! 
    
      Having obtained a console to the Devtronics ‘Publix’ design from 
    another member the new owner’s first task was to see if it would fit 
    into his upstairs flat. He realised that it would never be heard to its 
    full potential in a small room but modern digital recording will allow 
    the full sound to be heard in any large building with suitable audio 
    equipment that is available at a later date. Alternatively artificial reverberation 
    can already be added at home.

      All change!
      
        The instrument in its new position can be seen in the photograph. One 
      thing led to another and the whole room has at last been re-planned and 
      re-decorated. New furniture has been bought and installed and the owner 
      claims he has the only known home cinema with a home cinema organ under 
      construction. If you would like to hear the next part of this saga please
      ask the webmaster to get the next installment.

 Busy working on this page.

              The ‘Publix’ was partly assembled in the lounge and this led to the 
    conclusion that the room should be re-decorated whilst there was still 
    enough space. The parts were taken to a ‘Satellite store’ (aka hired garage 
    half a  mile away) and the room redecorated. New ‘line level’ signal cables 
    and loudspeaker cables were installed before the decoration was done.
    Somewhere along the line (and no-one is quite sure when or why) it was 
    decided to install a video projector and extra cables were installed for 
    the projector  and surround sound. The next step was to build an ‘evaluation 
    console’ to ensure that the finished job would fit. Various prototype panels 
    were made in plywood and fitted one after the other and each stage was 
    checked for sight lines and cable connections. It was confirmed that it 
    would fit in the proposed location but it also seemed that it would be 
    better the other end of the room!
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