Greg Mayman wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> Roy J. Tellason said to Wayne Chirnside
 -=> about "BAG OF CHIPS" on 01-11-04  04:06.....

 RJT> I've yet to get a hold of some of those.  I did find a can of CMOS
 RJT> chips,  and looked through them earlier today.  No PLLs in there but
 RJT> there seems to be one heck of a lot of 4066 chips for some reason.
 

 GM> Were you maybe planning at some time to build an electronic organ
 GM> with the notes switched by 4066 gates?

Nope.  I have several Hammond 380 chips I was going to use for someting of
that sort,  though at this point I don't think I'm going to bother.  I'll
bet I can get a real good price for them at this point,  probably way more
than I paid for them.

 GM> That was one project a friend of mine started some years ago, that
 GM> used a lot of them...

For keying?  This would tie in somewhat to my earlier experiments which
involved the use of analog switches to do electronic volume control,  sort
of.

You really want more than simple on-off control for keying organ notes, 
and it's best to have more than one set of keyswitches,  or at the very
least double-pole switches.

It's kind of handy to be able to have percussion and sustain effects,  as
well as perhaps a loudness variation that depends on how hard (how fast)
you hit the key.

Did your friend ever finish the project?

Closest I ever came to something of that sort was getting a couple of
organs years ago,  but one had been seriously smoke-damaged and I was only
able to salvage a few parts off it,  and the other one had belonged to a
lady who had a *lot* of cats,  with predictable results.  There really
wasn't any salvaging either of them.

And I'd want at least a complete keyboard or two before I'd even consider
messing around with such a project,  not to mention a box or cabinet to
build them into.  Speakers and power amplifiers and such would probably
come in handy too.  And I don't have either the time or the space,  not to
mention the inclination to do such a thing these days...

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