Model f mods?

[tswilson]

Got my Model F 104 in the mail yesterday and it's up and running today! Quite exciting.

I did the floss mod. Something about a Model F I guess that's not coated in nearly 50 years of coffee and corrosion that gives it that non-vintage tone. I'm going to work on getting rid of some of this slightly hollow echo soon.

Has anyone documented any other acoustic mods than the floss mod?

By the way - as someone who has collected Ms and Fs for about 20 years, I can confirm that I had to do nothing more (or quite a bit less actually) than I have had to do when receiving a well-worn F or M: normal servicing of removing keys, cleaning detritus and re-connecting springs, popping keys off and on, and so forth. Just wanted to send some positive feedback as there's a fair amount of negative feedback here already. Getting these running does take a little effort and you get to know how the keyboard works in the process so you can be more confident in the future...... (okay hm, period sounds funny - time for some tweaks......) ...........

[Ellipse]

Thanks for your feedback tswilson! Glad everything is up and running. Various sound mods have been gathered in the manual on the project web site appendix section. If anyone knows of any other recommended mods, please link to them or let us know!

[tswilson]

One quick update is that I pulled the back panel off, and tapped around. Everything was pretty dead-sounding except for the rear panel itself. Loaded that up with Blu-tack, bolted it back on, and that solved most of the hollow sound. I still want to tune a little more - especially the space bar, but that will take some foam which I do not have handy. Will work on that!

So far so good!

-s

[Ellipse]

Interesting - please share photos! I guess you wanted to reduce a ringing sound?