Subject:	HOT TIP: The Voice Palette

The Voice Palette (available standard on larger organs and optional on
smaller models) provides additional organ sounds for you to use.  This
feature is not available on the 525 or 535.  The extra sounds are accessed
by holding the SET piston and activating the tilt tab or draw knob.  (On
some organs you may need to access the sounds by useing the "clicky knob"
near the green window. Please consult your organ manual for this).  Try
selecting one of the alternate sounds by spinning the Alph-dial (the big
disc with the finger tip depression in it) next to the green window.  Now
when you have one of the alternate sounds selected that sound will play
when that stop is activated. Of course it will not agree with the name on
the tilt tab or draw knob.  Look closely as some of the stops have more
than one alternate voice!  Most organs allow you to save that voice in a
memory piston.  When it is saved to a piston, that alternate sound will
play when that stop is lit.  But here is where it gets interesting... 
        
The alternate sound will continue to play each time the stop is lit unless
you change it back.  If you press a piston that has that stop in memory
(lit up) it will change to whatever voice was selected when it was saved to
that memory piston.  But......if you are in the habit (as I am) of drawing
stops by hand, then you will get the sound you last used.  For instance on
my organ the 8' English Diapason on the Choir manual has an 8' Concert
Flute as the alternate voice (I play a model 960).  If I select the Concert
Flute in the green window and do not change it back to the English Diapason
then the flute will play when I pull out the drawknob for the English
Diapason.  But if I had saved the 8' Eng Diapason in a memory piston, it
will revert back to that sound AFTER I push the memory piston.  But if I
pull the knob by hand IT WILL REMAIN THE CONCERT FLUTE!

The solution?  Find a vacant general piston, and AFTER YOU TURN ON THE
ORGAN LIGHT UP ALL OF THE TABS AND DRAW KNOBS THAT HAVE ALTERNATE VOICES. 
On newer organs they are marked with a dot.  Now save them all to that
vacant piston.  Now that can be used as a reset to SET ALL OF THEM AT THEIR
DEFAULT VALUES!  So if you have been using a lot of alternate voices and
you want to get them all back to face value, simply press that general
piston and presto!...all are restored!  That beats going in and changing
them all by using the alpha dial.  That piston will not be used for
playing, just resetting!

If you are very confused, read this again.  Then go to the organ to try it
out. If still confused, e-mail me back.  Happy tinkering!   Jim :)