Awatmath.1705 net.music utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!mabgarstin Fri Feb 12 00:40:36 1982 Yamaha endurance This may be of no interest to any one in this group unless you are about to purchase a small organ. For the past 12 years now I've owned a Yamaha B-10. You may be saying 'What the "telestial kingdom" is a Yamaha B-10' at this moment. A Y. B-10 was a small spinet organ that incorperated big organ features (i.e. rotating Leslie speaker, 2 2/3 ft. Flute, locking cover, external jack for an external amp.) that was priced at the low price of $1000. Yamaha haven't made this organ in over 10 years due to the ever changing technology of electronics. In the 12 years that I've had this organ I've played in 3 different groups, have moved the organ around most of southern Ontario, have watched drunks at parties abuse it and beat it (although not for very long) and have generally gotten more than my money's worth of mileage out of it. During this long period of punishment not once has this little organ ever failled me. It has gone from extremes in temperature several times during the winter months and if you know Ontario duriing the winter you will know that that can be very extreme at times. Why am I carrying on like this? Two weeks ago a heating pipe in our apartment burst and, yes you guess it, it burst directly behind my faithful little organ. What spewed forth was not just water but a gush of hot BLACK (oxide in pipes) bubbling sludge. The fire department was called but it took them 1 1/2 hr. to get the water turned off. I wasn't at home at the time so during all this the organ was left standing in 5 1/2 inches of this guck. The amplifier, power unit, leslie control, reverb spring and circuits and of course the pepal mechanisms are all mounted below this 5 1/2 inch level so I firgured the organ to be a total write off. The organ was taken down to a local Yamaha repair shop for accessment and a final verdic. It was left to stand and dry out for 1 1/2 weeks when a technician just out of curiosity plugged it in and turned it on. To his surprise, and the manager, my own and all others involved, it worked perfecte perfectly. Now That's INCREDIBLE!!!!! My insurance co. are going to replace the organ anyway because my poor little faithful will probably croak in a couple of months anyway due to internal expansion of electronic parts. MAB at Univ. of Waterloo ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.