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Farfisa (Italian: Fabbriche Riunite di Fisarmoniche) is a manufacturer of electronics based in Osimo, Italy, founded in 1946.The company manufactured a series of compact electronic organs in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Compact, FAST, Professional and VIP ranges, and later, a series of other keyboard instruments.
A combo organ, so-named and classified by popular culture due to its original intended use by small, touring jazz, pop and dance groups known as "combo bands", as well as some models having "Combo" as part of their brand or model names, is an electronic organ of the frequency divider type, generally produced between the early 1960s and the late 1970s.
The Fender Contempo Organ is a combo organ made by Fender during the late 1960s. It was designed to compete with similar instruments such as the Vox Continental and Farfisa Compact, and had additional stops, features and controllers not found on the other models.
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 ...
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 organs were marketed for years in the United States by the Chicago Musical Instrument Company. With several compact, easily-portable, and inexpensive models available, and their distinctive "cheesy" sound, Farfisa organs became popular among rock bands and other combos during the 1960s.
Farfisa made reed organs using pressurized air (e.g., Microrgan and Pianorgan) [2] and developed the first transistor accordion, the Farfisa Transicord. It was not truly designed to imitate an accordion's acoustic sound; an "accordion-shaped combo organ" would have been perhaps a more fitting name. There were no reeds in the purely electronic ...
He originally owned a single-manual Combo Compact model, which was used for early recordings of "Interstellar Overdrive", [77] and he later upgraded to a dual-manual Compact Duo. During the 1960s, Wright relied heavily on his Farfisa fed through a Binson Echorec platter echo, as heard on the Ummagumma live album. [76]