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Organ building shops can have apprentice builders work on an Orgelkids instrument during their practical training. In doing so they develop all manner of practical skills which are also needed in the building or restoration of large, monumental organs. After completion, the organ kit can be made available for educational projects.
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.
Unlike reed organs, this gives great control over the music's dynamic range, while at the same time freeing one or both of the player's feet to play on a pedalboard, which, unlike most reed organs, electronic organs incorporate. From the beginning, the electronic organ has had a second manual, also rare among reed organs. While these features ...
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 ]
The organ comes with a chrome Z-shaped bolt-on leg stand assembly. [3] The top of the organ is furnished with an orange Rexine cover. [4] The Vox Continental uses six slider-type, metered volume controls called drawbars instead of the stop-tab rocker switches seen on other combo organs.
A Continental organ by Vox, the same model heard on "Light My Fire" by The Doors and "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly.A combo organ is an electronic portable organ, usually transistorized (although some older designs used tubes; and later models, integrated circuits), that was designed for use on stage, usually in the context of a band or group.
This category is a collection of articles relating to the organ (the musical instrument), including pipe organs, electronic organs, organists and related topics. Related topics include Category:Electric and electronic keyboard instruments
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 ...