A Royal Cleaning Day!

[vinvac]

The house had gotten out of control, so I had to pull out the big guns...

Thanks to a very dear friend, I now have in my collection a new Everlast Series Royal Upright. Personally I really like the machine other than the noise level. But I have to remember I have mostly hardwood and the house is small. Now if I lived in Trantuala Arms it would not be nearly as noticable. This machine is still very well built (like a sherman tank), the air flow is great with the tools. The tools are awesome and very durable.

Enjoy the pictures, just don't look at the dirt in the house.

Morgan

 

[vinvac]

The upholstery tool on this machine is much nicer than the older models. This tool is very much like the upper line Eureka.

 

[vinvac]

Ready for the carpets. If I had the option I would replace the current brush roll with one that doesn't have the brush stiffeners. It just adds to the noise level and for my cleaning needs really doesn't need the extra help of the stiffeners.

 

[vinvac]

Actually, Thanks to two very dear friends, this vacuum is complete. Mike Buffington gave me the machine and Mike Rogers found the attatchment set for me.

Royal has always made some of the best tools. The floor/wall brush is a perfect bare floor tool. Royal, Kirby and Eureka would be my first choice in uprights....followed by Eureka, Electrolux as canisters.

Morgan

 

[animasinsulin]

Royal

Hi, Morgan. I LOVE your Royal. I got my red Royal NIB from Ebay for $129.00 and no shipping! I just didn't get the attachments. That thing cleans sooooo well, but it is just toooo loud. But I don't care. Its like a Kirby with a beater-bar and I use the Hoover style A micron filtration bags in it. Happy Royaling!!!!.....Bill in Az.....

 

[williamr1248]

A Royal Cleaning day

Morgan,
I love the tools! When I got mine from a vac shop about 3 years ago they told me the tools were no longer being made and they tried to sell me a plastic small Royal canister.
I think my Royal is a good cleaner but mine is just too loud to use. I was quite shocked because I thought the Royal uprights were quiet vacuums. I guess I had only heard the older machines. I really like the blue color on your machine. If I remember (it hasn't been out of the box)mine is a Burgandy with black trim.
Those tools look very deluxe.
Rob

 

[petek]

Well it sure looks nice but if you say it's as loud as all that I think that would aggravate me too.

 

[countryguy]

Morgan,

I noticed the pedal board - what kind of organ do you have?

Gary

 

[vinvac]

Gary,

It is a Johannus. The Wesley model. I believe it is the digital equivalent of a 32 Rank pipe. There is a local Johannus dealer that installed a newer larger instrument in a church...he sold this to me at a very reasonable price...I couldn't let it go by. He also had a three manual Johannus that was not digital, but I chose this one. Here is a picture of it the day we moved to Dubuque IA.

It is funny, my good friend Louis Rescigno has the very same organ only to steps down in model from this one. I couldn't believe it when I first went to his home and saw is sitting there.

Morgan

 

[petek]

Nice Morgan and it doesn'tlook to take up all that much space either.. Could you do a very short Youtube clip playing it

 

[luxg]

A youtube video would be great Morgan!! Love the Royal and those beautiful attachments. Makes me wonder why Kirby never made a more deluxe set for their machines.

 

[tolivac]

Looks like the Deluxe Royal upright attachments are whats shown in the pictures.glad they still make them.I don't know if they still offer the "standard" Royal attachments-were white plastic.Oh yes-lets hear the organ!I haven't used my Royal upright attachments in ages-lets see-where did I leave them?Lately with all of the canister vacs I have becening for a turn to be used-the Royal attachemnts have been forgotten.Remember Royal offered two choices of attachments-"standard"(white plastic hose,tools)or Deluxe-metal tools.

 

[watsonw]

Hello Morgan,

I love that cleaner,if only we could get them over here !

Is the motor and fan as impressive as the bodywork ?

Regards, Walter.

 

[vacuumfreeeke]

Very nice. Looks like something that should be used in a palace!

 

[deliriousdan]

It's interesting

that so many organists are also vacuum collectors. Here's a picture of my baby. Rodgers Insignia 537. After I bought it, I told the choir I could practice in my underwear. They told me that was TOO much information.......
Sorry for the gianormous picture....

 

[countryguy]

Great looking organ....bet it sounds good too. Have never heard of that make before however. I know more about home organs rather than church organs. I have a Lowrey, actually 2 of them.

Gary

 

[aeoliandave]

Home organs.

Before I discovered self-playing pianos and organs in the early 80s I accumulated Reed Organs. When I moved to the house I had 9, from a sweet little one manual Bell with effusive gold Eastlake decoration & pin striping - which I still have...to a 2 manual and pedal Monster with pipe top Gallery. I kept this 2 manual/ped 1953 Hallman C-100 and its two triangular corner speakers, one of which is still mounted up over the front door vestibule transom firing down the hallway.

When the Grand Piano became a reality I dismantled the Hallman into its component parts and stored it in the basement. The Hallman is a self contained amplified reed church organ with 5 banks of blown reeds. I had this crazy idea that I would add a piano roll transport to it and make it a player but thankfully I found out about Aeolian Player pipe organs before doing irreparable damage to the Hallman guts. Actually quite magnificent sounding and some day I should put it back together...I had a Casio Synthesizer jacked into it. Lovely.

 

[aeoliandave]

This is the other Reed organ I kept. A made in Woodstock Karn with 9 full sets of reeds half of which have resonator boxes or harmonic qualifier pipes. It can be foot pumped for subdued playing but for full organ there is a handle on the back for the 'Bellows Boy'. It features a Nag's Head swell in the top lid to let all the sound out. It was found in a tiny country church slated for demolition so I rescued it. Solid quartercut oak, this is the one that has a lime green 'Sears Best' Kenmore 2 speed Magicord doing pump duty in the basement.

 

[aeoliandave]

Yes Gary, you have that magnificent and amazing looking Lowrey MX something. Gawd I luv it. I saw another one in London at the Sally Ann that I wanted sooooo bad but they were asking $800 and the bench was missing. :-(

Now that Pete has his Wurlitzer I have to keep reminding and prodding him that yours is his for the hauling...and if he doesn't perhaps I'll HAVE to.

This is my early transistorized italian Mark-O-Sonic (that Pete loathes) that I do play frequently. It has a fantastic Rhythm Panel with 3 arpeggiators that can be added and layered to automatic recorded loop progressive one key chord action. It will play itself endlessly as you hit chord keys, touch record and let 'er go nuts. What a beast! Has a built in rotating chorus/two vibrato speed Lesley type drum speaker.