Members JeffLearman Posted December 14, 2011 Members Share Posted December 14, 2011 Well, sonofagun. I thought Garth Hudson's Festival was a tonewheel organ, but it's a frequency divider organ. Sounded great through a Leslie, anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Plink Floyd Posted December 15, 2011 Members Share Posted December 15, 2011 Sounded great through a Leslie, anyway!Almost every organ does. If I had to choose a live rig with a good clonewheel and a Leslie, or a Hammond without a Leslie, I'd take the clonewheel kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JeffLearman Posted December 15, 2011 Members Share Posted December 15, 2011 Yeah, no kidding. I had a housemate who wasn't a keyboard player but somehow ended up with an M3 or M100, but no Leslie, and the expression pedal didn't work. It sat in our studio for 3 years and I only played it a couple times. He donated it to the COGIC church two doors down, and they used the heck out of it! (They managed to get a Leslie too, somehow. That was in 1985 when they were easier to find on the cheap, but not that much easier. I don't remember but they must have fixed the expression pedal, too.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TheB3Nut Posted December 18, 2011 Members Share Posted December 18, 2011 There IS one other company who manufactured a tonewheel organ. And, they still make it today. There was another commpany that made tonewheel/drawbar organs as well...Petrof. Back when Czechoslovakia was one country and Petrof was state-owned. The progenitor of the Petrof tonewheel consoles was an obscure one-off instrument called RWZ, if I recall. There's a Czech keys blog with pictures... http://czechkeys.blog.cz/0612/petrof-pastorale-b50 Neat, eh? They even had a knockoff of the scanner vibrato. TP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members piano39 Posted December 18, 2011 Members Share Posted December 18, 2011 There was another commpany that made tonewheel/drawbar organs as well...Petrof. Back when Czechoslovakia was one country and Petrof was state-owned. The progenitor of the Petrof tonewheel consoles was an obscure one-off instrument called RWZ, if I recall. There's a Czech keys blog with pictures... http://czechkeys.blog.cz/0612/petrof-pastorale-b50 Neat, eh? They even had a knockoff of the scanner vibrato. TP WOW. Would love to play with that for a few hours. Talk about reverse engineering. The tone generator looks like it was all fabbed in a machine shop- no mass produced parts there. The keys look like they were cut from standard Home Depot wood mouldings. I bet that the true cost of this thing would be about $50,000. I remember reading an article a few years after the Iron Curtain fell. There was a company in East Germany that made 35 mm Cameras (Praktikas, Exaktas, etc), that sold in the U.S. for under $200 each. These cameras had all of the features of a Nikon (except quality) but were half the price. A western company bought the outfit and was going to apply modern manufacturing technique, etc and make a killing. When they started to do cost accounting, they figured that the Germans were losing about $500US for every camera that they sold in the U.S. They had to shut down the company. Sorry for being so off topic, but that's what the Czech Hammond knockoff reminds me of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mate_stubb Posted December 18, 2011 Members Share Posted December 18, 2011 Interesting. That Petrof tone generator looks like an almost direct knockoff of the Pari. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikael488 Posted December 19, 2011 Members Share Posted December 19, 2011 Kind of vague here, but there's a Lowrey organ going for $200 dollars at a local "re-store" (sort of a non-profit second hand/drop off store). I think this is the one; it's very, very similar: The organ pictured above looks like a Lowrey Symphonic Theatre Console, model H25-3 (1972/73). This is the same model as used by Garth Hudson from early 1974 onwards. It came with a built in Brass & String symphonizer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoke Posted December 19, 2011 Members Share Posted December 19, 2011 Interesting. That Petrof tone generator looks like an almost direct knockoff of the Pari. The website says production started in 1957, wheras the Pari(s) were late 60s/70s affair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TheB3Nut Posted December 20, 2011 Members Share Posted December 20, 2011 There was also the Z70, which looked like a C-3 knockoff: http://czechkeys.blog.cz/0612/petrof-pastorale-z70 This was the 1957 progenitor. Dig the closeness of design of the vibrato scanner and how much their delay line resembles the early Hammond lineboxes internally: http://czechkeys.blog.cz/0709/regenschori-waclav-zachar-rwz-1957 Pretty ambitious I think! TP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Musicale Posted December 21, 2011 Members Share Posted December 21, 2011 You Da man B3Nut !! Regards, Musicale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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