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Contact wiring


 

Hello @ all,

does anyone know per chance how the manual contacts of a C-2 are wired internally? Is there an individual peace of resistance wire from each contact point to the related terminal, or is there kind of a chain, consisting of wire peaces that jump between the contacts, and finally to the terminal strip?

Best regards!


 

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Hi Uwe,

no, it is the way you describe it in the first place: individual resistance wires from the terminal strip to each individual contact.

Otherwise it would result in a terrible mess when the resistance wires were ?daisychained¡°. Then the loudness of a tone would be dependant on whether e.g. the octave is pressed or not. I won¡¯t imagine what else would be involved.

Actualy there some loundness dependency (also called ?compression¡°) when playing many notes at once.
But that¡¯s another story.

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Christoph





Am 17.07.2023 um 14:36 schrieb Uwe Menrath <uwe.menrath@...>:

Hello @ all,

does anyone know per chance how the manual contacts of a C-2 are wired internally? Is there an individual peace of resistance wire from each contact point to the related terminal, or is there kind of a chain, consisting of wire peaces that jump between the contacts, and finally to the terminal strip?

Best regards!


 

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It's an individual piece of resistance wire from each contact to the manual terminal strip. As well as setting the level of sound produced by each key at each drawbar, the resistance acts to isolate key contacts from each other. Thus each contact needs it's own individual resistance wire.

On 17/07/2023 13:36, Uwe Menrath wrote:
Hello @ all,

does anyone know per chance how the manual contacts of a C-2 are wired internally? Is there an individual peace of resistance wire from each contact point to the related terminal, or is there kind of a chain, consisting of wire peaces that jump between the contacts, and finally to the terminal strip?

Best regards!
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Thanks, you were very helpful!

Best regards!