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Hi, I've been doing a lot of work on my Wurlitzer cosmetically recently, and I'm having an awful time trying to find keyrail felt, the felt between the front of the wurli top and the keys

The only place I've found it is VintageVibe, but they're out of stock it appears
https://www.vintagevibe.com/products/wurlitzer-200-series-key-rail-felt

Does anybody have any leads on somewhere that would have this felt for sale? I'm positive I could buy some sort of non-descript felt strip from a craft store and have it work, but I have no idea what felt specifically I'd need, or how to describe it in order to search for it

On a semi-related note, I once heard about some sort of tolex-style vinyl tape that some restorationists use to make a damaged black strip around the bottom of the Wurlitzer top look better. Anybody ever heard of this?

Just wanted to post a quick update - I've decided to stop wrestling with the wurli and bought one of the Warneck 200a amps replacements from RetroLinear. Very excited for it to get here, can't wait to see how it sounds!

Max, just for clarification I meant 4/5ths of the way up, not 4 or 5 o clock. I understand that it is tough to diagnose these without looking at them...would it help for me to upload a clip? Also, I was looking at the preamp (i actually have another one) and it looks like there is a connection from the ground to something else with a resistor between it, which my current preamp doesn't have.

There are two on my board, one near the front (i assume this is the preamp pot) and one in the back. I adjusted both and it didn't seem to have much of an effect, other than when I turned the preamp one up past 4/5 or so I got crazy crackling and no other sound

Hi Max, I haven't installed the aux out components, it is just straight from the pin to the jack. The jack is a regular jack. I'll give describing the hiss a try...it sounds kind of like a tape recorder actually. It is very loud when the volume is down, and as increase the wurlitzers volume it gets noticeably quieter, but is still very loud. If it will help, I can upload a clip when I get home from work this afternoon

I don't know if this is helpful, but I get about the same amount of noise when going from the aux out pin to the jack as I do from going from the amp out pin to the jack

Nope, no resistors between the amp out and the jack

Hello folks,

I've got a 206a that has been chopped and has a connection from the amp out pin to a headphone jack on the bottom left. I've had problems with static and such in the past, but it seems like I've ironed this out. However, I have a TON of unmanageable hiss. No hum or anything, just hiss. I'm just going straight into a mixer with this jack...I've tried putting a dummy load on the line and it didn't help. The interesting thing is that as I decrease the wurli's volume, with the volume pot, the hiss gets significantly louder.

Any ideas?

Thanks Mike, I'll definitely keep you in mind for the future. I actually contacted you guys a few weeks ago asking about prices for refurbing wurlitzers since you are pretty close to me. I might get my name on the list sometime in the future.

Well, the fuse did the trick. I've got normal output now. I've also found the dummy load that's used for the headphone out on the extra electronics the 206a originally had, so I ran the headphone line from the amp out pin on the board with the dummy load on there. Works reasonably well, although there is still a bit of crackle...not sure if that is a output level thing or something else. Sending you an email bout the headphone out now, Max.

AH! I only checked the main fuse, didn't think about checking the others...F-1 is fried. I'll have to grab one tomorrow, but does anyone know of any common problems when this type of damage is done. I'm scared that there will be more damage along with the fuse.

Thinking about just ordering one of the 200/200A amps VintageVibe makes. Have you guys had any experience with these? Doesn't look difficult to install, but I'm never sure. I assume they'd work in the 206..

Checked the continuity of the fuse and replaced it just in case, no dice...

I did unplug it, and I believe the amp worked before, but it has been quite a while. Thanks guys. Max, ill shoot you an email once I've got the amp worked out. Hopefully it is just a fuse.

Bad news folks...hooked it up...a lot of noise, a little sound. took off resistors...a lot of noise a little sound. Even hooked it up to the amp out pin, same thing...guess my amp is shot..

Thanks!

Also, wanted to add that I'm very appreciative of the help you've given me so far

Sounds good, sorry for all the questions. I saw amp out and aux out pins, so I assume it is one of those, I just don't want to destroy anything so I figured I'd ask for a straight answer. In the meantime, I tapped the volume pot to see if it sounded ok, and aside from having to drive it really hard with a noisy preamp (and I imagine tapping the volume introduced a lot of noise too) it sounds pretty good!

The 206 came with a mono headphone out on the left underside of the keybed as mentioned above. This is too hot of a signal to use as a pre amp out, it is only about 32 ohms. The wires should already be in there unless someone butchered it. In a pinch, you can add a high value ( like 50-100k, maybe even higher) resistor in series with the + wire to the jack. Do NOT short the resistor across the + and - terminals.

Got it! Thanks! Happen to remember which out on the amp board? It is butchered, not connected to anything. Remember off the top of your head which pin? And a 100k resistor should work? I've got one lying around somewhere...

Would either of you guys be willing to take a quick look to see where the lead and ground of the headphone jack is attached? Like what pins on the amp

The headphone jack is there but not connected to anything, so I'm not sure where to wire it. It is fine if it is hot, I just....don't know what to connect it to, haha.

Hello folks, a while ago I acquired a student model with the base removed and all of the student model circuitry has been removed. Right now there is essentially no way for me to get sound out of it...my question is, if I wanted to use it for recording (without an amp...di or preamp then right into my interface) how would I go about doing this? Not sure where to wire the headphone jack to..

Hello all,

I recently picked up a chopped Wurli 206A. The guy who sold it to me said he didn't know how to finish it, and I figured I could figure it out with the help of the internet, or if I can't, I cant take it somewhere to get it worked on.

Anyway, he demo'd it with a guitar amp and it seemed to work, but when I opened it up, I noticed that it has the positive wire of the 1/4" out jack connected directly to pin 16 (I think, I am not at home right now) which is the AMP OUT pin. This doesn't seem quite right to me...any ideas of how to get this in shape to connect to a mixer/recording interface?