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It has been an interesting month, mostly confined to my home due to the coronavirus pandemic. I'm lucky in that my job still exists, and I can do it from home, so I've been working full time.  That does take away time from organ building and playing, but not as much as when I was commuting. Also, there is lunchtime organ practice, which vastly improves my mood for afternoon meetings. I have been reluctant to mess with my organ, and take a risk of leaving it nonfunctional since the pipe organ I play is currently inaccessible. I've been testing and experimenting on the workbench. I'm having some challenges with the darlingtons for the SAM units, and the LED strip for the pedal lights. I'm probably doing something stupid and when I look at them again, it will mysteriously work. That is what happened with my slide pot. My Klann console has 3 shoes - two for controlling shades and one crescendo, which had a sforzando button which engaged and disengaged it.  I had a r