Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Italian organs are teh rock.
I bought myself a little birthday present. Okay, it was not planned and not expensive, but I found this Italian “Tiger” organ by manufacturer EKO on a local flea market while I visited my parents. I don’t know if I’ll keep it, but I just had to get it for 25 Euros. The organ itself and the original stand fit nicely into the original brown carrying bag. The serial number sticker states that it was build in October 1970. Not visible on the picture is the huge aluminium “TIGER” logo on the rear of the organ (facing the audience).
There were lots of dead bugs and dust inside, but after cleaning most of the contacts the organ now works almost flawlessly. The f’ key sometimes does not come back up all the way after being pressed and the g” and gis” keys still crackle a little with dirty contacts, but that will be fixed soon.
(In related news; I’m back in Berlin, the button machine works nicely, the russian b/w super 8 film stock has arrived and if you’re free on saturday, please come to my birthday party.)
[...] My 1970 EKO Tiger Organ fortunately worked after a little cleaning, but it was still out of tune, about a quarter note too low. Switching the main power selector from 220 to 240 volts changed nothing about that (which is good), so I opened the case again in search of a tuning knob. There is none. [...]
I own one EKO tiger (I’ve got it as a birthday present from my grandparents from Italy) and I have some troubles with g3 and e3. I dont have any idea of how to fix it. Can you help me?
i have eko tiger, i bought it at the studio in Jakarta, Indonesia. i have no power cable. how can i fix it do u have an idea ?
I’d say, just get rid of the nonstandard power jack. You should be able to enlarge the mounting hole so that a standard IEC jack (like those on computers) fits.