Original Drawbars settings
In the Vintage Tonewheel Organs , mainly in the Consolle versions (2x61 notes keyboard) the last
octave on the left was made with reverse colors, since those keys were dedicated to the selection of
factory presets, in addition to them selection of the 2 live Drawbars groups available for each
keyboard (named Swell and Great as in the Pipe Organs.
At that time the Pipe Organ builders association tried to prevent, through legal actions, that
electromechanical instruments (and any other electronic instrumet) could be called Organs and
used also in churches for religious services; for this reason one of the attempts made by the
manufacturers of electromechanical instruments was to simulate the sounds of the pipe organs and
to name the factory preselections with typical names of the classical organ combinations.
The offficial test took place in the presence of legal and musical representatives in USA and saw the
electromechanical instruments winning the challenge and being allowed to be called Organs.
The Factory settings of the Drawbars levels were mainly intended to imitate some typical pipe
Organ sounds and they were hardware wired settings, that could be modified only by expert
The following are few examples of the millions of possible combinations.
French Horn 00 8740 000
Tibias 00 8408 004
Clarinet 00 8080 840
Novel Solo 08 8800 880
Theater Solo 60 8088 000
Oboe Horn 00 4685 300
Full tibias 60 8807 006
Trumpet 00 6888 654
Full Theater Brass‘ 76 8878 667
Stopped Flute 00 5320 000
Dulciana 00 4432 000
French Horn 00 8740 000
Salicional 00 4544 222
Flutes 00 5403 000
Oboe Horn 00 4675 300
Swell Diapason 00 5644 320
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