The “A Major” and “E Major” buttons on my Optigan sound wrong. Are they?

Posted by peahix on 23rd April 2006

Yes and no. From a musical standpoint, they’re very VERY wrong! But nothing is actually wrong with your Optigan. In order to fit enough stuff onto the discs, they had to cut corners a bit. There wasn’t enough room for A and E major, so they decided that they would take a C# dim chord [...]

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Some of the chord buttons on my Optigan don’t work. How do I fix this?

Posted by peahix on 23rd April 2006

Usually this problem can be cleared up by getting into the contact board and using a pencil eraser to “erase” all the gunk and oxidization from the contacts. This process is actually very easy- it just takes awhile to gain access to the contact board itself. Sometimes the problem remains no matter how much you [...]

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The “A Major” and “E Major” buttons on my Optigan sound wrong. Are they?

Posted by peahix on 23rd April 2006

Yes and no. From a musical standpoint, they’re very very wrong. But nothing is actually wrong with your Optigan. In order to fit enough stuff onto the discs, they had to cut corners a bit. There wasn’t enough room for A and E major, so they decided that they would take a C# dim chord [...]

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