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Hi everyone, yes I'm a new member and so glad I found your fantastic site. You've guessed it, I desperately need some advice on my first vibes. About two months ago, having looked for a vibraphone for a long time, I found an old instrument (I love old) that was 'spares or repair'.
Now, I am quite musical and for the last thirty years have been a mechanical and electronics engineer - I have worked with woods a little also. You will understand that I thought restoring such a thing would be easy.

Hi All-

I am having some grounding issues on both of my vibraphone motors since I had some work done on them, wondering if anyone can suggest remedies that don't involve returning to the busy shop that did the work for me in the first place?

Hi There-

Anyone know the sizes or part numbers from a parts company for the o-rings used as pulleys for the motors on Musser vibraphones?

I acquired a Yamaha YV-1600 that seems to have been stored in a rather dusty and humid environment. I just finished cleaning it completely, getting crud out of the resonators and using about a hundred Q-Tips to get all the dirt out of every crevice.

The good news is that I was able to give it a complete inspection and there is little to no damage. Everything is intact and I don't need to locate any replacement parts.

The bad news is that the motor doesn't work and the felt on the damping bar is pretty messed, so I have a few questions:

hey,
does anybody know if the bars and resonators of a very old musser century vibe fit on a newer m55 modell?

tarik

What are the dimensions of the dampening rod for both companies?

The yamaha pedal is heavier in weight And giving me hip problems . My ideal is to put the musser pedal on the yamaha.

I bought a used Musser M7055G (An M55G mounted on a cart) and I'm very happy with my purchase. But I'm having a problem with the damper pedal. Dampening is not even. Left, middle and right sides do not damper the same way. The center is too muted while the left and right sides still have some ringing. I can't get it to have an even sound when pedal is not pressed.

Hi Everyone, I recently acquired a Deagan Commander 593 vibraphone. It was in pretty good shape when I got it, but also needed some work. I've managed to get most of it running smoothly, but I'm having some trouble with the pedal tension. It takes an awful lot of energy to push the pedal down. I have the spring adjusted so that the bar dampens the keys evenly, but I'm not aware of how to adjust the spring tension itself, so that the pedal is physically easier to push down. Is this a matter of replacing the spring? Am I missing something obvious? Thanks.

Hi All-

I'm having some new problems with my motor, wonder if anyone's ever encountered anything similar. I suspect that the trouble's originating with the specialized parts I had made to allow me to control vibrato speed with a volume-style pedal, but I wanted to make sure it's not the actual motor itself.

Hey All,

My Malletkat seems to have a few loose sensors so that sometimes the notes are soft or even totally dead. I used to live in Boston so I could easily take it to the Kat factory in Central Mass. but I have moved to Oakland and would prefer to avoid the shipping costs to send the unit across the country. Anyone know of some one in the bay area that could help with this?

Pete