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The Lowrey organ is an electronic organ, named after its developer, Frederick C. Lowrey (1871–1955), a Chicago-based industrialist and entrepreneur. [2] Lowrey's first commercially successful full-sized electronic organ, the Model S Spinet or Berkshire, came to market in 1955, the year of his death. [ 1 ]
Lowrey organs were originally made in Chicago, Illinois (prior to 2011) and have been played in churches and by professional and home musicians since the 1950s. [1] Lowrey entered the portable keyboard market in the early 1980s with the Wandering Genie, which was succeeded by the Japanese-made Micro Genie line.
John Compton Organ Company of Acton – Nottingham and London (now Makin Organs) Copeman Hart Organs — Shaw (now part of ChurchOrganWorld) Eminent UK — Designer of British organs and exclusive distributor of the Eminent brand. Based in Wincanton. Kentucky (a small company based out of Poole, Dorset headed by Ken Tuck.
The Gibson G-101 (or Gibson Portable Organ, also known as the Kalamazoo K-101) is a transistorised combo organ, manufactured in the late 1960s by the Lowrey Organ Company for Gibson. The G-101 was produced in response to similar combo organs such as the Vox Continental and Farfisa , though it had a wider range of features such as foldback as ...
After Hammond pioneered the electronic organ in the 1930s, other manufacturers began to market their own versions of the instrument. By the end of the 1950s, familiar brand names of home organs in addition to Hammond included Conn, Kimball, Lowrey, and others, while companies such as Allen and Rodgers manufactured large electronic organs designed for church and other public settings.
Kawai produces a line of electronic organs under the name "Dreamatone". [37] Kawai also owns Lowrey organs. Kawai previously offered the MORE series, a home organ product line applying the high-end technology of their theater models, T-50 and T-30. The MORE series was merged into "Dreamatone" family in fall 1979.
The organ pairs baseball with the tones of the past and present. And it was first heard over 80 years ago at Wrigley Field on Chicago's north side. On April 26, 1941 Ray Nelson entertained fans ...
His early work was performed on a Lowrey organ. When Barry decided to adapt his own Oscar-winning theme from the 1968 medieval drama The Lion in Winter as a single, he wrote an extended solo for organ with Haven in mind. As released, the jazz adaptation marks a notable departure from the soundtrack score which featured a choir singing in Latin.