Ideal crematorium music at the end. You can almost see the coffin moving down the rollers towards the doors and fiery oblivion.

Mr. Organaut is a BEAST on the organ! he just starts playing that thing with finesse and ease. strong, silent type. mad respect bro!

Your dog's very well behaved!

I just got one these from a neighbor that recently deceased. I love the sound, the layout and the design. Absolutely beautiful! Mighty mighty U-90!

You guys are amazingly talented! I love watching your videos!

Always love it when Jason makes an appearance.

Brilliant playing in the end!

Great repair hints! The capacitors are a big problem of my SX-G5, 2x SX-U90 and SX-U60. Not many could tell me where they are located and the manuals/wire diagrams haven't really told me. So your video is a big benefit for me!!! Thank you. I hope your organ is still alive and playing!

When your friend started to play I got a smile in my face. It was like I felt the organ being happy to not being ended in a landfill :-) Keep up the good work Markus! Liked the joke at the end too :-D

You get all the best projects Markus, love that old technology ❤️

It's nice to see you are still into these old things.

Hey Marcus, first off I want to say I love watching your channel. You have a gift of explaining complicated things in such an easy to understand way, and have given me more confidence to attempt repairs.. I've pretty much been through all your video's now! I like fixing stuff too, but unfortunately I don't possess your skills. I've got a problem with a Korg Poly 61 I picked up. When I got it there was only power - none of the displays worked and there was no sound. The internal battery had leaked which is common to this model. I cleaned it all up with IPA and it came back to life - the LED's, all controls and all keys work as normal but the patches sounded weird. I've cleaned up the CPU board, sound board and power board and cleaned and reseated all the molex connectors on these with IPA. I had a direct replacement 3 leg new battery fitted. However, when I load in a WAV file of the original factory patches, it only stores them temporarily(about an hour after power off) and then it reverts to the original internal patches which still sound weird and corrupted. When I load in the WAV sounds it plays them back perfectly with no corruption. It's been suggested that the battery could be the wrong way round, but the 3 leg battery can only be fitted one way so it can't be this surely? Really hope you can give me some pointers as to why it can't save patches permanently - I'm not getting much help off forums. Apologies for long post. Thanks and looking forward to more video's!

I'm more into church organs, but I fondly remember my grandparents having an electric organ similar to this but probably not as complicated. The solo at the end was so idiomatic! It's harder to find electronic church organs for reasonable prices but I got lucky last week and bought an Eminent model for £100 from a salvation army shop. It's a massive beast with full concave radial pedalboard - it only just fits in the house! So much fun.

I had no idea Technics made an organ! Very cool. I've had their stereos for a long time, from the 70s, to the 80s. Thanks for doing this. Loved the bit at the end, about "earthing". ;)

Beautiful sounding organ

Love the sound of those old organs. Great video. :-)

Great video guys. Pleased you got it working and sounding good in Jason’s hands.

Thanks Markus. Enjoyed the presentation.

Wonderful explanation Mark and well done...and wunderful playing Jason ..we love it ...best wishes from us out of Breda

Awesome Dude…loved the Jam too!!

Great video, thanks. Classic organ of the early eighties. Although it is just 2-3 years younger than my Hammond Aurora it looks like a space age thing inside in comparison.

I had a U90 when I was 13/14 in mid 80s. Loved it

I reckon that's one of the best car boot finds ever! A good fix too - nice one guys :-)

Thanks for this nice video , i have recieved this organ as a present , it s in great condition , everything works fine except that when i switch to Synths preset there is no sound going out , i might open it up someday to see what s going on , but i m not very good at electronics , anyway i was happy to see the inside of this beast !!! Arigatou !!!

This organ is a monster sized beast! So heavy, and that crazy mother board has so many daughter boards on it... no wonder this cost so much. I like the sounds. Nicely played , Jason. Thanks Markus!

One of the best home organs of all time.

Those supercaps were well known for leaking. They used them in various National Panasonic VCR from the 80s. I remember replacing quite a few of them by the late 90s.

Markus sos un genio. Son geniales todos tus videos. Saludos desde Argentina

I loved the U90 when new. Used to play one each week while waiting to take my organ lesson at Kitchens Music in Newcastle on Tyne😎

Love your Videos! Very interesting!

Marvelous stuff

I love RS Components for that. Makes for quick turn arounds.

I would LOVE to see you repair a Lowrey MX-1

Amazing

I love lounge lizard organ music!!

I’ll be digging up the soil for my next audio project ;-)

I can still remember how the buttons feel when you press them. I can still smell it.

Well saved.

Nice vid mate

very nice!

There are so many of these beautiful things in the trash. If I had the space I would buy them all to save them. Let's save the dinosaurs musical

Good work if you used crt battry insted of capaceter will work bettr with the memory

Hey Markus, thanks for this video ! I'm dealing with problems with my U90 pro too... When I switch it on there is no sound und all the LEDs in the preset buttons don't work and nothing happens when I push the preset button. Checked that gold caps on the board and they were all leaky. Got 3 new of them and replaced. I switched on the U90 and having the same problem as before. No sound not LED on preset button and no reaction when I push them. Do you have any idea ? thank you so much !

Got to love a guy who has a pillar drill in his hallway.

Perhaps they used 3 caps in series for a reason? Isn't adding that wire changing the capacitance value?

Luvly!

Where shall we put it? Just get it inside. Hallway it is then. 😁 great save and another catchy choon👍

Niceeee!!!

Hello Markus! I really liked your video about repairing the Technics U90 organ. I have the same organ, but recently I moved to a new house and decided to test the organ and cranked up the volume. Then suddenly a huge brumming sound emerged and a foul stench emitted from the organ. I have taken the organ apart but I dont know where to look for the problem, I was wondering if you could help me a bit?

A friend of mine has been really into Technics organs for many years. He has a parts organ that is similar to his other organs, partly cannibalized. I wouldn't be surprised if the missing speaker on your organ was taken for another organ, before this organ was sold or otherwise divested. My friend's parts organ is lesser than the others, but uses many of the same console switches, so for his purposes it's not going to ever go back into service as a functional instrument.

Hi Markus! I appreciate the video! I have a 1980 yamaha electone c405 and the top keyboard doesn't work. Do you know what might be the cause of this?

OH MY GOD MARKUS I LOVE THE WOLF

Hi there. I have just bought one of these at an auction and have to transport it. Does it come apart and, if so, how?

Can you change the beat system by replacin it with that of u60

I have a couple of speakers here from organs that have gone to meet their maker - what diameter do you need?

Hi, I just got a Technics U40 and can't work out which settings to have it on to make sound come out. Could you be any help?

I got a used technics organ the gn9. One of the keys plays just once when i start the organ and then just quits! If i restart the organ the key plays again, just once and stops! Have you encountered smtg like that? Any idea what it could be?

I have just received an SX- U90 for our club unfortunately it has a problem with the top manual, it has distorted sound which is as if it has a sore throat the distortion is there without any keys depressed, any suggestions as to the cause of the fault , and where can I get a service manual. I am in the UK.

im trying to fix some old EKO new tiger duo, it has no sound from any key and none of sounds work, only working thing is drum.machine, does anyone have any schematics for thise im having really hard timr trying to get them to work

Where can I get my Lowery Majesty LS/510 repaired? Or a repair manual?

My grandmother had a simpler model of a technics organ. I still miss it as something happened to it and it broke.

Hi, I have a Yamaha B-4B. However all the B notes across the organ are dead (no sound is produced) do you know what might be causing this? I was given the organ so have no idea how to fix the issue but really want to try Cheers

A friend gave me a u 90 after swapping it with a fully working u 90 - the fully working u 90 had been struck by lightning through the mains incredibly the only damage was the amplifier modules got blown up , repaired the tech bolted on LM IC AMP substitute boards and the u 90 is back to normal - Mark that was interesting that you didn't un plug the boards , I did and caused dry joints to show up on the mother board connectors , seems I was chasing a single broken audio line at start luckily all came out OK resoldering everywhere .

Did you remove a speaker above the pedals? Or is it missing? (yes, I am aware it is a year since you posted). Reason I am asking is coz I got a U-90 recently that I will try and modify :-)

Hi, I have a Technics PCM Sound E11L that I bought second hand. I love playing it. It's my baby! But for some strange reason each key has started making a wobbling/distorted sound. I don't have a manual for it. I've tried changing the settings but to no avail. Can you help me? I'm based in Buckinghamshire. I really want to get it fixed. If you can help, or refer me to an organ fixing service that would be a great help

I have an SX-U90S but only the top portion. No base, no speakers, no amp. It does have outputs on the key platform underneath. ( phones, aux, mic with volume potentiometer, and line out ) And I see two IEC cables coming from it. Do you know the voltage as I imagine it’s a low voltage IEC. I certainly don’t want to fry anything attempting to plug 110 into it. Thank you.

Anybody besides me do a double take when at 16:00 the organ suddenly starts making synthy filter sweepy sounds? That was not expected. I saw Markus react with interest / surprise.

Wondering why this didn't show up in my subscription feed and I had to stumble upon it by accident. Something is seriously wrong with youtube recently.

Where can one get these serviced in the UK? I've been wanting to get one but am told nobody services them anymore and parts not available. Would someone knowledgeable in electronics be able to service it if the organ servicing places say they won't? I know nothing about electronics myself.

The manual (SX U90) seems to say one 12"speaker, one 8" and three 2.6" speakers. First thing I noticed, indeed, the missing speaker.

Great-Grandmother board

That wolf statue is pretty though~

Where are the bateries of this Organ?

I guess the higher voltage on the replacement cap is ok? Just not the other way around no?

Hello I have bought an organ on my own (Hammond Romance series). It has a really weird problem. If you have any ideas where this problem may come from or tips on what to look for while searching fo the problem that would be awesome! Here 's the problem: When I start it most registers don't really work until I press a lot of keys at the same time. Then they work for some time. If they stop working I have to do that again. First I thought that this problem might be about a minimum signal strength for the amp but it seems more complicated: If I get the volume (expression) all the way up that doesn't help. Only pressing more keys helps. I already opened it once and had a look for broken capacitors but didn't find any. Greetings from Germany :)

Dear Markus, thanks firstly for a wonderful video. I am living in the Philippines where house wiring does not have earth and I have taken your advice and added a earth-jar and this helps no end. The other, more annoying, fault my Technics organ has has not improved though and I was wondering if I could ask for your advice .. So, basically I have a Technitone SX-70GW which is older than your U90, built around 1973. Unlike the U90 it's 100% analog including a drum machine with analog sounds (the U90 probably has PCM). It's 'similar but different' when taken apart, there are no flat cables like on the U90, instead it is bunches of coloured cables going onto boards everywhere - there are two banks of circuit boards mounted behind the keyboards one near the other flat (no mainboard) and nothing at all is labelled. The tone generator for the pedals is totally separate and is housed in the bottom compartment where the speakers are. The way this thing works (I am reasonably sure) is to have 12 oscillators, one for each note, frequency divided to go down the octaves.. it's 5 octaves of keyboards (2 x 4 octave keyboard spaced 1 octave apart) and then there are 'lengths' from 16' down to 2' so that's another 4 octaves. The problem I have is that sometimes when you turn on the F# keys do not work on both the manuals .. pedals are a separate synth so those work fine. I know for sure that the keyboard is OK (wouldn't fail on all F# at once, firstly, and if you turn on 'keyboard percussion' the keys work and produce a snare-ish sound). Pressing the F# keys produces a very quiet, high pitched sound which is correctly tuned and sounds slightly different (as in different harmonics but always high pitched) depending on which key is being pressed and which combination of voices is used - I think this is some leakage current and the problem lies somewhere inbetween generating the original tone and filtering it down to whatever should go out. If you leave the organ switched on, after a while (could be 5 minutes, could be an hour) the F# keys start working too, once they start they never stop again, even if you turn the organ off and on again within a short time. If you leave it off and come back next day, the problem repeats. This makes it very difficult to diagnose because once it 'starts working' there is nothing wrong with it. I have identified 6 almost identical boards, side by side, that I think are the main tone generators - they are connected to the rest of the organ by wire-wrap terminals on the edges. I am thinking the fault is some sort of dry joint or maybe a bad wire-wrap though jostling (gently) the board components on what I think is the F# channel (nothing at all is labelled - I am assuming C is the furthest to the left so F# would be the 7th 'channel') doesn't create any static or help. Any suggestion on how I could track down the fault further?

put a little earth on me, LOL

Like being back in a working mens club in the 70's lol

Feh! It's not April fools day yet? 😂

did it keep a programmed tune in its new capacitor powered RAM memory ?

Hello Markuss I own a U90 technics organ it was electrically disconnected for 9 months There is no more sound I have changed the capacitors as shown on your video. by 3 capacitors in series and tested + 5 Volts in total I still don't have sound Do you have another solution I thank you for Yours sincerely

I have an electric technic organ but its spoiled 25 years ago its a waste I want to learn how to fix it

hi just asking i have a acc with RS my self have at any time you had RS not like one man job's in the past RS did not like me being a one man fixer up man and would not let me have a acc i the end they gave any i had to set something up to keep RS happy

Dear can u fix my cavendish organ please

My mom has a U60 in her estate Now it seems nobody wants it because it's not working I said I wanted it and the local electronics repair guy said it was very repairable. He'll take a look at it in two and a half weeks He said this age of Technology is made so that it is repairable.

Hi....... Sorry, are you selling U90 Technic Organ?

The stk amplifier modules are either stereo or dual mono dunno why they used stks when they could've used discrete MOSFETs well stk modules now are probably faux Chinese rip offs ps take good care of her she's gorgeous

Where to buy that earth? It works like a charm 🙄

I have a roland g6 keyboard . can u repair pleaseeeeeeee

I liked the video very much,you can torture people with that machine.

phantom hand and foot appear @0:36 ... :)

Do you know a way to repair Kimball organ dead keys?

None of the keys or pedals works and it hums when you turn it on and turn up the volume

Its really sad that you can pick these organs up for next nothing on ebay etc. I bought an old Yamaha for £10.00 just to use the base pedal assembly to make some Taurus Type Bass Pedals.

Hey i really love your super cute Wolfie

4:50 It's insane how far technology has gotten. You can probably simulate it on a reasonably cheap CPU in software if your code is good enough, you wouldn't even need a DSP

nice video, beautifull organ.. the jar with sand in it, joke right ? hahaah

Dat earth joke lol

You will be long gone before that capacitor will need replacing.

10:50 "Just put a resistor across it" Do you mean your fingers? :-)