ITGITC Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Does anyone know the make/model of this organ? http://c.im.craigslist.org/Pn/Xs/Cla3A2XV6wrJVV7y0wqjVqs1RixF.jpg http://c.im.craigslist.org/yC/te/sVnwP5QKVONiO1Nj7EtXFhfGWiFH.jpg On craigslist - info here "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKeys Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I saw that today and would hazard a guess based on all the colors that it is a Thomas. I sold Thomas organs when i worked at the piano organ dist. Oh I felt bad after every sale. But I smiled when the commission check came. Jimmy Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho NEW BAND CHECK THEM OUT www.steveowensandsummertime.com www.jimmyweaver.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ITGITC Posted March 28, 2007 Author Share Posted March 28, 2007 I'm thinking that you're right, Jimmy. Thomas slept with everybody. If you put together a Heathkit organ back in the sixties/seventies - it was probably a Thomas. In 1973 they agreed to build the Satellite for Moog Music. In return they were allowed to build Satellites into their organs (for a very large fee). Thomas Organ also came out with the Synti 1055, an adaptation of the Satellite. They are also believed to have had a hand in designing the Moog CDX organ/synth with Moog and Cordovox. Here's a cheesy link. http://www.combo-organ.com/Vox/Other/ThomasMoog1aT.jpg The Cordovox CDX/Moog (CDX-0652) This model was made for Thomas by EME, who also made the Cordovox CDX-0652, so they're probably pretty much the same instrument (Thomas/Cordovox designed the CDX-0652, and so probably did so for this one, too). This Thomas version, however, appears to have been put into a Vox Super Continental case. But that would make sense too, now, wouldn't it? It came with four screw-in type legs, though - no "Z" stand. http://www.combo-organ.com/Vox/Jaguar/HeathJag.jpg "Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent." - Victor Hugo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botch Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Heathkit! You're bringing back some memories. Botch In Wine there is Wisdom In Beer there is Freedom In Water there is bacteria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Horne Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I thought this was thread about the famous one legged piano player, Stump Smith. A fine player. No guitarists were harmed during the making of this message. In general, harmonic complexity is inversely proportional to the ratio between chording and non-chording instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrokeys Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Memories indeed. I had a Vox Jaguar (but not the kit) still, I ran it through Heathkit twin twelve that I also used as a preamp to drive a leslie 125 (single rotor). Fairly adaptable rig for 1967. I still think Vox made the best looking portables of all time but the Thomas organs were a technicolor nightmare. Imagine one of those things in Gas's photo hooked up to that psychedelic leslie that we have seen posted elsewhere. That combination would have been banned by the Geneva Convention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legatoboy Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 My first ax at 14, 1967-68, was a GEM. . . http://www.combo-organ.com/Gem/ModelP10b.jpg GEM organ . . . It wasn't the Vox I had wanted but I loved it and I used it with a Blackface Fender Bassman, mine amp must have been a 65' and had a 2 X 12 bottom. My dad bought me the GEM new at Sam Ash out were I live now on Long Island in 1967. My Fender had the black dials not white like this picture shows, this one (pic) is a later year bassman. I forgot how I got it but it was used and fairly cheap. All the guitar players want the 1965-67 bassman head now because of the tube drive it has, there going for $700 at Guitar Center, it was loud and warm with the organ too. I wish I still had my old BlackFace Bassman, what a friend it was back then playing 'Like a Rolling Stone' and 'Light My Fire' and 'Knock on Wood' through it on gigs. I gigged alot as a kid, school dances and parties. 1965-68 are considered the 'vintage years' for fender amps, the best they every made, who knew! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v396/danijgc/resto/clip_image006.jpg http://www.vibroworld.com/gifbank/bassman1.gif Light My Fire,lb SP6, CP-50,YC 73, FP-80, PX5-S, NE-5d61, XK-3, CX-3, Yamaha YUX Upright, '66 B3/Leslie 145/122 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT156 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I had the misfortune of buying a VOX Super Continental, "licensed" to Thomas Organ. In other words not an English made VOX organ, but an American made Thomas Organ. It sounded very good for a portable organ in the sixties, but it couldn't handle the very cold winters we got in PA back in those days. The keys would stick down after being transported in our equipment truck. No heat in the back of the truck. I ended up dumping it. A very expensive mistake. Mike T. Yamaha Motif ES8, Alesis Ion, Prophet 5 Rev 3.2, 1979 Rhodes Mark 1 Suitcase 73 Piano, Arp Odyssey Md III, Roland R-70 Drum Machine, Digitech Vocalist Live Pro. Roland Boss Chorus Ensemble CE-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Nightime Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I had problems with the cold on my Farfisa Compact duo. The transisters on a couple of the tone generator boards would leak, and the pitch for the notes would be off a diminished 5th low until they warmed up. As they warmed up, the pitch would oscillate between the dim 5th and the correct note. I had to replace the transisters on about 4 of the boards. Love that Fender Bassman, BTW. I had a CBS Bassman 50 with a 2-15 cabinet loaded with Eminence speakers given to me by a previous bass player (he left the band owing money, and I got his amp). My guitar player had a blackface smoke on stage last January. One resistor burned up, cost $34 to fix, and it's as good as new. "In the beginning, Adam had the blues, 'cause he was lonesome. So God helped him and created woman. Now everybody's got the blues." Willie Dixon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Horne Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 All of these photos are bringing back memories .... bad memories. No guitarists were harmed during the making of this message. In general, harmonic complexity is inversely proportional to the ratio between chording and non-chording instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT156 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I had better luck with portable organs when the Korg CX-3 came out. By then, I was playing solo, transported my equipment in a HEATED equipment van, and kept the Korg in an Anvil Flight Case, even though I was only playing local gigs most of the time. No problems at all. I ran it through a Leslie and it sounded GREAT. I beat the hell out of carrying around the old beat up B2 that I used for a number of years. It was firewood by then so Korg it was. Mike T. Yamaha Motif ES8, Alesis Ion, Prophet 5 Rev 3.2, 1979 Rhodes Mark 1 Suitcase 73 Piano, Arp Odyssey Md III, Roland R-70 Drum Machine, Digitech Vocalist Live Pro. Roland Boss Chorus Ensemble CE-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legatoboy Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 It wasn't just the instruments per say for me, it was my friends and the times and the music! Of course the instruments sucked! I had a pisser though. . .! Man does not live by bread alone! There was no better time to play than in the late 60's and early 70's, it was a very exciting time to be a musician, even if I was just a kid! lb SP6, CP-50,YC 73, FP-80, PX5-S, NE-5d61, XK-3, CX-3, Yamaha YUX Upright, '66 B3/Leslie 145/122 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon May Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 As a teen, my friends threw a party in a country hall. Though my muzo connections I borrowed 2 fender bassman heads and 2 quad boxes to which we hooked up a reel to reel tape deck loaded with our favourite music...Bowie's Aladdin Sane, Stone's Exile on Mainstreet and the ilk. It wasn't hifi but it was LOUD 8-D "I'm well acquainted with the touch of a velvet hand..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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