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Re: What was your first Organ?

Postby Pendagon » 02 Jan 2014, 03:22

Hi

My first organ was a Solton B 2000. It looks like a mixture between a awkward light show and a children coffin. The sound was horrible.

I played it in a hard rock band. The sound was pressed through a guitar distortion module and the amp was a dynachord Leslie.

But it was extremely funny and the sound unique. A hard rain destroyed this organ during a open air live concert.

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Re: What was your first Organ?

Postby analogika » 02 Jan 2014, 11:08

First one - a 1968 P-100 (an L-100 chopped and tolexed at the Hammond factory in norderstedt, north of Hamburg), with a 760 Leslie.

Next up a 1968 B-3, which will be with me till death do us part. She's my Queen. Awesome console, just a little dirty, and perfect through the 760. Not as good through the

Leslie 145, which I got together with a really banged-up 1960 A-100, which is stripped of its power amp, so it's identical to a B-3/C-3, with an AO-28 in there. This one's a real whore, and she's shone on a couple of productions that really needed grit.

Along the way, two CX-3s (one with MIDI - selling that one!), a charming but totally unreliable Viscount OP6 double-manual organ (looking to sell, maybe), a philicorda, and a busted Farfisa home organ.

Does the Roland RS-09 count?
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Re: What was your first Organ?

Postby Keys Wizard » 16 Jul 2015, 00:05

The first organ I played was one from Yamaha. I don't remember which type it was. Bought in 1975 by my parents.
Took lessons for a year, together with my brother. It was in the basement of a music shop in Arnhem with some 20 organs in it. After my first publical performance in 1976 I learned playing myself and became good at improvising. I 'invented' a kind of hold-function with putting cassette tapes (together with their boxes) on some keys of the organ. That was pretty awesome for those days !! It's gone for years now..., but I still have the organ bench, haha !!!
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Re: What was your first Organ?

Postby MrSitcom » 16 Jul 2015, 17:06

Finnish WLM Beat from the 70s, it has a sinewave generator instead of tonewheels. Can sound either soft or hard, depends how you drive it ;) internal speakers, but it has an output on the back so Leslie or such can be used.

Upper manual has 16', 8', 5 1/3', 4' and 2' drawbars and something called "Rise time", which adds a crescendo to the start of the notes, and 16', 8', 5 1/3', 4' and 2' percussion drawbars (yes, five individually adjustable percussions with a common decay time drawbar).

Lower manual has 16', 8', 4' and 2' drawbars.

Pedals have 16' and 8' drawbars and a sustain drawbar that adds decay.

Two vibratos, sadly they don't work anymore :(

A spring reverb, that oddly doesn't affect the pedals.

A good organ, but I wouldn't mind a C2D or even the real deal Hammond :mrgreen:
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Re: What was your first Organ?

Postby spradders » 17 Jul 2015, 00:26

keyswizard - same as mine, I think it was the Yamaha B5CR.
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Re: What was your first Organ?

Postby Keys Wizard » 18 Jul 2015, 22:34

spradders wrote:keyswizard - same as mine, I think it was the Yamaha B5CR.
Could be ! It also had 8 white and grey pushbuttons for a variety of stiff accompaniment. Real bad and dull, haha !! But, all in all, I liked the organ. Did you ?
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Re: What was your first Organ?

Postby Rusty Mike » 19 Jul 2015, 03:54

Farfisa Fast 4. In fact, it was my first electronic instrument. I never learned how to work the damned thing properly. :o

Transistor organs were never my thing, so I was happy to get rid of it. That was around 1978.

My NEXT organ was the Electro 2 I bought 30 years later. Quite a gap, eh?
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Re: What was your first Organ?

Postby analogika » 19 Jul 2015, 13:26

First stuff I tried (playing along to Chester Thompson on Santana records) was the Rock & Pop expansion card on my Yamaha SY77.

Bought a 1968 Hammond P-100 (an L-100 chopped at the Hammond factory here in Norderstedt) in 1996, and my B3 in 2000.
Got two CX3's (one MIDI'ed and now for sale here in Hamburg) and a Viscount OP-6 double-manual Hammond clone which sounds awesome and is also for sale.
Bought an A100 (no speakers or power amp) sometime in the late 2000's, but rarely use it. It's a nasty, screamy beast, though - while the B3 (ostensibly identical) is a mighty, funky lady.
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Re: What was your first Organ?

Postby AlQuinn » 19 Jul 2015, 15:11

My parents bought a Lowry organ in '66 when I was eight. It had bass pedals and a built in Leslie. My mom still has it and it mostly works (i.e., some of the key contacts are intermittent) and sounds nice. It has a headphone jack so when I was a teenager I would plug in extra amplification and use it to play with friends. We would play Allman Brothers, Santana, ELP, and other music of the 70's. Such found memories :keyboard2: :)
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Re: What was your first Organ?

Postby RedLeo » 19 Jul 2015, 16:18

My first organ was a dual manual Vox Continental. Pictured here with an ARP Axxe, both run through a Marshall. Sounded bloody horrible. You can probably tell by the way I customised it I was already hankering after a Hammond.

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