ArnoldLayne Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 If everyone here already knows about this, I apologize in advance and concede to village idiot, but I was completely unaware. http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/msg/4438578072.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitorgan I wasn't exactly sure which forum to post Prophet 6, '38 Hammond BC, HR40, 2 Leslie 760's, Prophet 08 PE, RD700GX, Ensoniq E-Prime, SCI Pro-One, TX-7, CP80, Arturia VI's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Williams Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 In my very first band, circa 1975, Joe the guitarist had a guitorgan. It went through a tiny rotating speaker system, maybe 8" square by 12" high. It was an electric guitar packed with organ guts, weighting about 20 pounds, I think. It was a mid-1970s equivalent of layering an organ with a guitar, adding fullness in trio situations. The equivalent of key presses was contact between the string and the fret, six-note polyphonic with top note (per string) priority. The frets were each divided into six separate contacts, one for each string. This made left-handed string stretching to raise pitch impossible. You could also play open-string chords by pressing a small button with your left thumb, at the zeroth fret. The lower four drawbars, and one other (maybe 2'; I forget), were provided. When you consider how much hammond voicing is 888 or 8888, that ain't a bad deal. I played electric piano. Many patrons thought I was doing the organ parts. -Tom Williams {First Name} {at} AirNetworking {dot} com PC4-7, PX-5S, AX-Edge, PC361 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesG Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 What a strange instrument! [video:youtube] Hammond: L111, M100, M3, BC, CV, Franken CV, A100, D152, C3, B3 Leslie: 710, 760, 51C, 147, 145, 122, 22H, 31H Yamaha: CP4, DGX-620, DX7II-FD-E!, PF85, DX9 Roland: VR-09, RD-800 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTeechur Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 What a strange instrument! [video:youtube] Pretty cool - in a Ventures, "Surf Music" sort of way. Muzikteechur is Lonnie, in Kittery, Maine. HS music teacher: Concert Band, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Chorus, Music Theory, AP Music Theory, History of Rock, Musical Theatre, Piano, Guitar, Drama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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