Okay, I just found this in an antique mall, for $75.00. It sort of works, but I'm not 100% sure. I tried connecting it to my Crown CE1000 amp, and got a faint sound out of it, and a low hum. If anyone has any advice I would greatly apprecitate it. It's in farily good condition, although it was used, due to the ciggerett burns. I may need to try an organ amp. Also there is this one cord I'm not sure what it's for? One goes with the pedal, which I was surprised to find, the other is a 1/4 inch male cable?

Have a look on this site.
Lots of pictures and probably the model you have too..
http://www.combo-organ.com/Farfisa/Compact/index.htm

Thanks Fred, actually I did a Google search and found that site.

Okay now for the Bad News, the organ only powers up, with no sound. I am going to have to find someone in the Maryland or DC area or in the Mid Atlantic area that could fix it.

If you're not afraid you might try to fix it yourselve.
Since you bought it in a kind of pawn shop it probably isn't used in 20 years plus...

This mostly means that all the contacts and pots are oxidated/corroded
Just open the case and clean ALL contacts(specially the switches) and ALL Pots!
Als look at the line output if the jack still makes contact.
Look for loose wires, often caused by turning a Pot which came loose..

I fixed an old Yamaha CS30 as above which was trashed by the owner.
60 minutes work and sold for euro 800,--

Reparing by some tech will cost you much more as the organ itself...

Good luck,
Fred

That is a possibility, since I was able to get some sound out of it. Maybe it needs some cleaning.

forgot to mention:
Use a good contact cleaner spray. They usually come with a small straw for precision and to get the spray in pots.
There are sprays for cleaning and there are sprays to absorb the dirt.

You need them both!

Fred

Oops You probably know this, but before you start UNPLUG the powercord!


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Thanks Fred, anything else I should know? I know mine is an early model for the US about 1964? I couldn't find a plaque with the model number or serial number anywhere?

REPLACE THE FILTER CAPS!!!

in the power supply.

it needs to be done anyway.

Thanks justin,

Okay here is something I figured out. I had been plugging the amp into the wrong spot. Turns out I had my amp plugged into the Pedal Output. I did not realize, that the cord with the 1/4" jack was to plug into an amp. However I did try this and still no sound through the amp, however I am getting sound from the keybaord, faintly. Obviously I need to find an amp to go with this organ, and see if that's the problem, before I pop this thing open, or to have it serviced.

I recall you mentioning that you had your OMNI serviced once. May be the same guy can help you revive old Farfisa as well?

Yeah, I was thinking about doing just that ED.

Here is a pic of my organ.

Paul

Okay Gent's, I found someone who is going to repair the organ. Ted Thompson, of Speakeasy Vintage Music. They don't repair Farfisa's, but I emailed Ted, and he said he wou;d work on it personally. So I took it up this past Tuesday, for him to work on. Fortuneatly for me I live in Maryland, and he is in Dover PA, which is an hour's drive from where I live. The place is really cool, it's not a typical shop, with a storefront, but it's in the owner's house. Ted is the General manager, and senior techician. The have a warehouse, and the shop is in a basement. They mostly work on Rhodes & Wurlitzer Pianos. The will even chop up Hammond organs, to make them more portable. There warehouse is full of electric pianos and organs. The also work on some analog synths as well, but it's predominately the Rhode's and Wurlie's. They are perdomintaely web based, and do there business over the web, or phone, and take in paions from all over the world, to restore. It's going to be a few weeks, since he has to work in his spare time, but I'm in no rush.

If any of you have a Rhode's, Wurli, or Hammond, that needs, repair, or conversion, contact them.

Speakeasy Vintage Music at:
http://www.speakeasyvintagemusic.com

Well, I just picked up the organ today, and it sounds great! Ted did a good job rapiring it back to it's orignal sound.

BTW: It's "repairing" not "rapiring"

Good, so what was wrong with it?

Some of the transitiors needed to be replaced, along with ac couple of tubes, it needed to be retuned, which it had not been, since it left the factory. Contcats under the keys were cleaned. Basiclly it was rebuilt.