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Harmonium / Organ
1950's Vintage Handcrafted Instrument
Lowery Vintage Analog Transistor Organ
Synthesizer Sounds - with WahWah, Leslie and Spring Reverb!
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Description: Should we call it Harmonium, Accordian, or an Organ? This air blown instrument has a little bit of everything and truely sounds amazing.It was manufacuted in the mid 1950's by a small organ company in Italy and appears hand crafted with a signature. All body parts of this instrument appear to be carefully hadcrafted to precission out of wood and it has a very full, strong, muscal, warm and bassy tone. The assemblies feature little latches that allow to relase panels and sub assemblies for cleaning and maintenance. There are fine cork gaskets. Everything in the boddy of this instrument is of the finest quality. A true piece of Italian precission craftmanship!
The blower motor appears quite strong and with it's 3 1/2 octave keyboard this instrument produces strong and loud tones in a variety of ranges, including fat tones in the lower bass range. In adiditon there are 6 bass tone buttons next to the chord buttons and 24 Chord buttons. The instument is desinged to play combinations of bass and chord buttons for even more chord - and playing variations. Bass, Chords and the Keyboard have all independent tone producers for a very rich tone - You got to hear it! Hopefully soon I will be able to produce and upload a sound sample. This instumnet can be felt in body and soul - there is music! Not to be compared to simmilar instruments of later vintage - this instrument sounds extraoridianry and gorgeous! Great for spiritual music and chanting, but it really is quite usefull for quite a variety of music, including ethnic music form arrond the world..
Features: (All the buttons and knobs, left to right in the picture):
• 24 Chord buttons, 6 bass buttons, a 3 1/3 octave keyboard, a power switch and in the inside of the instrument is a tool mounted for maintenenace and tuning (shown).
Condition / work performed to present thsi instument in it's current condition: I repaired and overhauled this instument. I custom built the outer casing for it form original 1950's woood and parts; and installed a power switch to make this instrument small, portable and convenient to play and use (who has the space anymore for bulky instrumnets?). Work Performed - Details: Repaired air laeaks and took various assemblies apart to clean them out completely from dust of the ages, cleaned other mechanical parts, custom built the outer casing, installed an original vintage power switch, physical cleaning and detail work. About 7 hours of labor went into this instrument to restore it to it's glory and full working condition for decades of joyful music to come! With the amount of work (and parts) that, went into this instument, it should sell in the $450 range, but I decided to make it affordable - If you come to appreciate it, please feel free to donate the extra amount of money to help me retore and revive other instruments, that should not "bite the dust".
Price: SOLD!
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CASIO VL-TONE VL-1
Programmable Mini Synth
Description: The Casio VL-Tone was actually the first synthesizer product Casio ever launched in the early 80's. This little guy actually has quite a bit to offer for it's price: Ultra Cheezy early digital synth sounds, the famous cheezy beatbox, sound programming features and a digital sequencer! Not to mention: It also can be used as a calculator.
Features:
Line output, runs on batteries, ultra portable!, 2 1/2 octave keyboard which can be switched one octave lower and one octave higher, pre-set synth sounds: Piano, Fantasy, Violin, Flute, "ADSR" - which is the programmable section: and 8-digit number is entered to control 8 parameters each can have 10 different values for thousands of sound possibilities. The built-in beatbox offers these rhythms: Marc, Waltz, 4-Beat, Swing, Rock-1, Rock-2, Bossanova, Rhumba, Beguine. The built-in sequencer holds 100 steps which then can be sequenced with adding rhythmic one key play on top of it. The synth is monophonic. Input jack for external power adapter.
Condition: The unit is fully working and was recently overhauled: all the controls elements such as switches and sliders were cleaned and lubricated.Physical condition: good and clean, soem signs of use. The battery door is missing, but the batteries stay put when usign it, as the batery springs are quite strong - for an additional $45 I will custom craft a batteery door that will fit and work, but again: the unit can be used without the door and also has an input jack for external power.
Price: $35.00 (US Shipping will be only $5.25, if using the papyal shopping cart! (- overpayment will be refunded. International shipping likely will be $13.00) - Only one VL-1 available - Get it before someone else will! - will remove payment link when it has sold)
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Lowrey Description: The Lowrey Model: Venus is a very cool early 70’s US made (!) all-transistor organ. This instrument is a borderline sytnthesizer - does not sound much like your typical organ at all - Very unique! - dwonload below sound sample!
It produces early analog syntheesizer and electronic music sounds a la Kraftwerk / Jean Michelle Jarre! Lots of switches and knobs! This unit was made by Lowery in the USA and features: auto modulated wah wah, sustain, an analog beat box, synth bass, auto bass, auto wha wha, autotmatic play features, repeat type tremolo, percussion tones, spring reverb, a 2 speed Leslie, an expression pedal, vintage transistor organ stereo sound, and built-in stereo amplification system! It also features a built-in cassette deck to record onto and to play along with for 2 track performances. Teh organ's built-in amplifiecation system is stereo. The stereo signal is available as an output for recordign etc. through the headphone jack.
For the technically minded: This instrumentis quite accessible inside and modification can be easily acomplished. A few items could be added to turn this instrument into a great full blown really unique synthesizer.
Features: (Overview)
Vintage analog polyphonic sound, with Wah Wah filter, which can be modulated by various sources: via repeat, vibra wow (LFO), autowow (Envelope), or "percussion volume" (Envelope follower of the selected percussion tones - 4 choices availalbe: Piano, Banjo, Mandolin, Fife. There are sustain switches to adjust three sustain lengthes, and the bass pedal / base tone in auto play can be selected betwen "string bass" and "guitar bass" which sounds very synthesizer like. There is a switch to add sustain for the bass as well. Teh unit fhas a 2 speed leslie and spring reverb. The amplifiecation system of this instrument is stereo and the stereo signal is availalable as an output via the head phone jack. This signal includes reveb but no Leslie.
Condition, Value and Shipping: The unit is fully working and was recently overhauled - about $200 of labor went into it - so In order to get paid for my time I would have to sell it in the $350 range - Due to lack of space and pressure to move it: The first $250 takes this beautiful piece of vintage analog music electronics home, provided that you come and pick it up, or will be providing for your own shipping (willing to pack for adidtional charges, for shipping see below link.). The Item is located in the USA, northern California, Paradise, Chico area, about 1.5 hours to drive from Sacramento. I have the service manual for this instrument as well - see below!
Lot: 1 Lowrey LC98SKG Organ, includes it's original bench.
Dimensions: (organ only, for packing add 4-6" in every direction): 45" (w) x 23" (D) x 35 1/2" (H)
Estimated Weight (actual weight may vary greatly): 225 lbs.
Shipping from: 95969
Download SOUNDDEMO (about 950 kB)
Above demo was recorded straight from the headphone output jack without the addition of any external effects. This means: The built-in Leslie of the instrument was not recorded, which adds an even more impressive 3 dimensional sound and chorous / vibrato!
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