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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.

Cheers

Alex

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?

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 !!!

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

keyswizard - same as mine, I think it was the Yamaha B5CR.

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 ?
Cheers...

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

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?

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.

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

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.