Sounds every bit as good as the tone wheel models but without the oil drip from the tone wheel generator suspension hold down bolts. I’ve been wiping off those drops weekly for 35 years.
I worked for Conn starting in 1976 as a quality inspector in Madison, IN. Helped move the plant from Madison to Greer, SC in 1979. Madison had the larger organs and Greer had the smaller organs. I helped expand and set up the new lines for the Madison organs in the the plant in Greer. Late 1979 I moved from IN to SC and worked as a supervisor in the SC plant. I was in charge of the gold plating dept, pipe speakers, and external speakers plus the big daddy church organ. The 800 series. Kimbal Electronics bought bought out Conn in 1980 kept the plant in SC for about a year. Then moved it to French Lick, IN in 1981. Back to IN with Conn I went. Can't remember when Conn dropped out of the organ business but I was still with them them in French Lick. Kimball landed a big contract with IBM building their computer keyboards for them. The plant in French Lick had 8 production lines. Three shifts and each line building hundreds of keyboard per shift! Yes do the math it was a bunch. I started out working for Kimball in IN as a line supervisor for the IBM keyboards and ended my last few years as a manufacturing engineer for them. Left Kimball in 1991. It was a good ride and treasured my life experiences with them!
I remember watching a video similar to this a few years ago, thinking that this was a beautilful machine with rather strange sounds (drums, piano etc.) - not realizing how old this instrument was. I genuinely thought that this was a late 1990's model. Now, I am a few days away from picking up my own Theatrum, understanding that it is actually an analogue synth and drum machine as well as a great-sounding organ. While it will never go on tour, I'm looking forward to recording that lovely organ sound. Thanks for teaching me more about the Theatrum!
Diese Orgel ist einfach nur Kultur Pur. Ich hatte das Glück, als Teenager auf dieser, für diese Zeit, technisch fortschrittlichen MX-1 zu spielen. Sie war für mich damals ein unbezahlbarer Traum. Die AOC Funktion (mit einem Finger der rechten Hand vollgriffige Akkorde zu erzeugen) und die Begleitautomatik haben mich sehr fasziniert. Diese Orgel war ihrer Zeit weit voraus. Eine wunderschöne Erinnerung ! Dankeschön ! Viele Grüße aus Stuttgart Germany 👍😀
i had one i got for free but spent around 2000 getting it up and running my organ tech retired and this fool ruined the organ i loved this organ so fun to play
A great organ and great to hear the sound again. I played this organ as a child and teenager from the 80s to the mid 90s and loved the sound and style of the organ. Thanks for the video and the memories I had by hearing the MX1 sound again.
Leslie recommended years ago a model 715 Leslie speaker, same as an 722 or 822, with a Leslie kit # 7957. This a multi channel Leslie speaker. There are other Leslie kits and/or other ways to build a Leslie kit, though you would need to know what you are doing to take on that kind of adapting.
I just picked up one of these last night for free from a local church that wanted it gone. It needs work but what works, works well and what doesn't, doesn't at all. After seeing this I convinced that's it's well worth fixing. This is a beast of an organ. I'm going to add MIDI to mine while I'm fixing things. I'm psyched!
I passed an organ store in 1977 and was invited into the store when the salesman was playing a Hammond organ. I was on my lunch break and soon had to return to work, installing partitions in a nearby office but I was given three tickets to an organ night. Nobody I knew would go with me to see a Japanese instrumentalist play the Hammond organ so I went alone. A petite Japanese woman was introduced as Yuri Tashiro. I had tears of joy flooding my vision as this previously unheard organist tapped her wooden clogs on the base pedals to add an extra percussive sound to the Hammond's voluptuous sound cast into the room full of what seemed like mannequins seated all around me to fill the seats, except for the man on my right who cared for an oversized boombox set on "record" and after the music night was over I wanted a recording of the performance, but nobody in record stores I went to had heard of Yuri Tashiro and I wished I had taken my tape recorder and recorded the performance, having been given the authorization to do so, but I soon bought a Hammond organ. It was the American-made model named Hammond Phoenix. After almost a year of learning to play the Phoenix, by an Italian accordionist, I had a lifestyle change, but the quartermaster of the quartermaster store, in Duntroon Military College wasn't sounding too happy to take delivery of the Hammond Phoenix when it arrived at the college. I could tell by the tone of his voice and his over-enthusiastic order that had me move smartly from my office and take the organ out of harm's way, off the back of the delivery truck and into my barracks room, as the quartermaster was not having the organ in his storeroom for a second. I didn't play it much after CB radio voices took over its amplifier when I turned it on. My mother had persuaded the truck driver to make the organ magically disappear from the family home and reappear where I had not expected it would arrive, but it was in the Army now so I had to keep it in service. When I was posted to Puckapunyal, Victoria, to take my position as a Cinema Projectionist, at the camp's theatre, I was lucky the Army posted the Phoenix soon afterwards to my new location but it filled the room with its nice walnut cabinet and I could not get out of bed, so I was once again lucky to be allowed to stick it in one of the change rooms at the rear of the cinema, where I would occasionally go and play the organ. It was in its element there and one day a soldier came into the cinema and enquired if I had an organ in the cinema. "Yes," I told the soldier. I was then asked if the soldier could see the organ, so I took the soldier to the place where the Hammond was ready and waiting for me to play it, next to another Hammond organ I had bought in Melbourne, a Hammond Aurora. I was asked if I could play one of the organs, so I played the Phoenix. My music playing appealed to my audience, but apart from the dust beetles, the moths and the odd rat and mouse, the soldier was delighted by what he had heard. So was I, especially when the soldier asked me if I would sell him the organ. I would have said "No, the organ is not for sale" but as I had the Aurora I said "Yes", to lighten my responsibility of having to have two organs transported to my new location in the month ahead after having spent three years in the land of four winds which describes Puckapunyal. After nine years of military service, I moved to Perth to settle in civvy street. I began to compile my stories of my ventures in the military force and also my yarns as productions or novels. Either way, they were my stories pieced together using my drawings and written material. My primary story, about children exploring castles in England and Scotland about a boy wizard who had been orphaned and had to grow up with his aunt and uncle and their son, was needing the main character to be named and as my mind wandered about my locale I thought of the street name I live on and it caused my mind to roam back to my days in Puckapunyal to remember the name of the soldier who had bought my Hammond Phoenix organ towards the end of the year 1982. His name was "Harry Potter". My street name is Harrison, so I settled for the name Harry Potter and subsequently created another title name for my stories about a wizard boy. The subsequent title name I formed for my stories about a wizard boy was 'Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix". My writer's name is J. K. Rawling, but my stories got published by a woman named J. K. Rowling. If you want to know more about the wizard story, then follow through to The Liar Bird, jkrawling.tumblr.com/
Merci pour ta vidéo, mais il b3000 est très loin d'avoir le son du b3! J'en sais quelque chose puisque j'ai chez moi le b3000! Il serait bon pour une chapelle.
It's kind of like an early sinth and a classic Hammond B3 type sound combined! I just love the way the keyboard feels and I love the way the attack is it's so light and quick and punchy it's surprisingly warm for solid state. I'd rather record with this organ believe it or not then a b 3 for most of my pop rock stuff. I guess it's a little more modern but it's still a classic.
What is it with these r series organs? They seem to have a tone all there own. incredible beautiful swirling rich slow vibrato and chorus lush reverb and attack all of its own! No it doesn't sound like a B3 or c3 or a 100. However I happen to like it even better in spite of not having tubes which surprises the heck out of me!
It's a tone wheel Hammond, just like the A-100, B-3, etc., it has a solid state preamp and two amplifiers, no tubes. With the built-in two speed Leslie, plus a 8" and 15" bass speaker, those speakers help produce a full Hammond sound. For a full size Hammond keyboard, the footprint is small, doesn't take up a lot of room.
@@timothyrogers3647 yeah the speakers do sound good in this particular Hammond. I don't think these are the common hepner's they put in a lot of the organs in the 60s. I believe mine have Jensen's and they sound a lot better. My organ is an R 118 . It looks just like your organ however Tim. I'm not sure what differences there are .....? mine is a 1975. I was told from a buddy of mine who repairs hammonds and who's dad retired from Hammond after 35 years that the R series is a rare organ and they didn't make a lot of them . Many are gone and forgotten about .....and was the very last good Hammond tone wheel organ.
I live in a mobile home park in Santa Rosa CA. and there is Gulbransen Rialto II in the parks community hall for the residents to play. This is a wonderful instrument. I spoke to the park manager and he says no one ever plays it and it's just collecting dust and wasting space. So since I am the resident musician in the park he ask if I knew anyone who might want it. It is in immaculate condition with a full leather cover. If I had room I would take it in a heartbeat...but I don't. So if anyone is interested please reply to this post and let me know.
I live in a mobile home park in Santa Rosa CA. and there is one of these wonderful instruments in the parks community hall for the residents to play. I spoke to the park manager and he says no one ever plays it and it's just collecting dust and wasting space. So since I am the resident musician in the park he ask if I knew anyone who might want it. It is in immaculate condition with a full leather cover. If I had room I would take it in a heartbeat...but I don't. So if anyone is interested please reply to this post and let me know.
I sold Lowrey organs at a mall in North Riverside,Il. This was back around the early 80’s and I remember when the first MX-1 came in. When I first sat down to play it I almost fell off the bench. I was totally amazed at what was available at your fingertips. We retailed it for 25000.00. It was one fun instrument and it attracted a crowd every time we played it. One of the highlights during that era was when we gave a concert on the MX-1 with the great Dennis Awe performing on it. That was a time when I can honestly say I loved going to work!
Thought was a tone wheel Total organ!!!
Fabulous Thunderbirds-“Wrap it up”at 7:00 in. Love it
Good player but does anyone else think the organ sounds a little cheesey?
Sounds every bit as good as the tone wheel models but without the oil drip from the tone wheel generator suspension hold down bolts. I’ve been wiping off those drops weekly for 35 years.
No waterfall keys!!
I worked for Conn starting in 1976 as a quality inspector in Madison, IN. Helped move the plant from Madison to Greer, SC in 1979. Madison had the larger organs and Greer had the smaller organs. I helped expand and set up the new lines for the Madison organs in the the plant in Greer. Late 1979 I moved from IN to SC and worked as a supervisor in the SC plant. I was in charge of the gold plating dept, pipe speakers, and external speakers plus the big daddy church organ. The 800 series. Kimbal Electronics bought bought out Conn in 1980 kept the plant in SC for about a year. Then moved it to French Lick, IN in 1981. Back to IN with Conn I went. Can't remember when Conn dropped out of the organ business but I was still with them them in French Lick. Kimball landed a big contract with IBM building their computer keyboards for them. The plant in French Lick had 8 production lines. Three shifts and each line building hundreds of keyboard per shift! Yes do the math it was a bunch. I started out working for Kimball in IN as a line supervisor for the IBM keyboards and ended my last few years as a manufacturing engineer for them. Left Kimball in 1991. It was a good ride and treasured my life experiences with them!
RIP Tim ❤
Ah. Memories. I had that stand alone rhythm unit by Hammond for my solo holiday inn tours 77-79
I remember watching a video similar to this a few years ago, thinking that this was a beautilful machine with rather strange sounds (drums, piano etc.) - not realizing how old this instrument was. I genuinely thought that this was a late 1990's model. Now, I am a few days away from picking up my own Theatrum, understanding that it is actually an analogue synth and drum machine as well as a great-sounding organ. While it will never go on tour, I'm looking forward to recording that lovely organ sound. Thanks for teaching me more about the Theatrum!
Which leslie model is connected to the b3000 organ, with leslie rotosound type 722 or 822 the sound wasn't so great!
Schlechter Sound was die Videocam da aufgenommen hat. Der Vorführungs Effekt ist sehr Anfänger- mäßig und langweilig! Schade um diese gute Orgel!
Love the Doors greatest band ever.
Did you now that Thomas Organ was owned by Sears in the 60s when they took over Warwick Electronics?
That tune at the end was very nice .
J'ai eu un MX1
Having worked in the music trade for 50 years, that must be the worst demonstration I have ever heard !!
Please stop, really. Stop. That was a great organ, you made it look moronic .
Why don't you tell us what the sound is that you are selecting.
hat die concorde eingebauten leslie ?
Diese Orgel ist einfach nur Kultur Pur. Ich hatte das Glück, als Teenager auf dieser, für diese Zeit, technisch fortschrittlichen MX-1 zu spielen. Sie war für mich damals ein unbezahlbarer Traum. Die AOC Funktion (mit einem Finger der rechten Hand vollgriffige Akkorde zu erzeugen) und die Begleitautomatik haben mich sehr fasziniert. Diese Orgel war ihrer Zeit weit voraus. Eine wunderschöne Erinnerung ! Dankeschön ! Viele Grüße aus Stuttgart Germany 👍😀
i had one i got for free but spent around 2000 getting it up and running my organ tech retired and this fool ruined the organ i loved this organ so fun to play
Thanks brother
I have a 720 Artist and I didn't know it can do so much. Thank you.
BEST 3000 DEMO
I like Mammond sound
A great organ and great to hear the sound again. I played this organ as a child and teenager from the 80s to the mid 90s and loved the sound and style of the organ. Thanks for the video and the memories I had by hearing the MX1 sound again.
Auto Rhythm sounds a bit like a Cajon drum kit.
Gulbrabsens were my number 2 favorite as I am a B-3 guy.
Who service these in Australia
How do you plug 🔌 a Gulbransen Rialto ll organ into a Hammond Leslie cabinet? How do you do it?
Leslie recommended years ago a model 715 Leslie speaker, same as an 722 or 822, with a Leslie kit # 7957. This a multi channel Leslie speaker. There are other Leslie kits and/or other ways to build a Leslie kit, though you would need to know what you are doing to take on that kind of adapting.
I just picked up one of these last night for free from a local church that wanted it gone. It needs work but what works, works well and what doesn't, doesn't at all. After seeing this I convinced that's it's well worth fixing. This is a beast of an organ. I'm going to add MIDI to mine while I'm fixing things. I'm psyched!
I passed an organ store in 1977 and was invited into the store when the salesman was playing a Hammond organ. I was on my lunch break and soon had to return to work, installing partitions in a nearby office but I was given three tickets to an organ night. Nobody I knew would go with me to see a Japanese instrumentalist play the Hammond organ so I went alone. A petite Japanese woman was introduced as Yuri Tashiro. I had tears of joy flooding my vision as this previously unheard organist tapped her wooden clogs on the base pedals to add an extra percussive sound to the Hammond's voluptuous sound cast into the room full of what seemed like mannequins seated all around me to fill the seats, except for the man on my right who cared for an oversized boombox set on "record" and after the music night was over I wanted a recording of the performance, but nobody in record stores I went to had heard of Yuri Tashiro and I wished I had taken my tape recorder and recorded the performance, having been given the authorization to do so, but I soon bought a Hammond organ. It was the American-made model named Hammond Phoenix. After almost a year of learning to play the Phoenix, by an Italian accordionist, I had a lifestyle change, but the quartermaster of the quartermaster store, in Duntroon Military College wasn't sounding too happy to take delivery of the Hammond Phoenix when it arrived at the college. I could tell by the tone of his voice and his over-enthusiastic order that had me move smartly from my office and take the organ out of harm's way, off the back of the delivery truck and into my barracks room, as the quartermaster was not having the organ in his storeroom for a second. I didn't play it much after CB radio voices took over its amplifier when I turned it on. My mother had persuaded the truck driver to make the organ magically disappear from the family home and reappear where I had not expected it would arrive, but it was in the Army now so I had to keep it in service. When I was posted to Puckapunyal, Victoria, to take my position as a Cinema Projectionist, at the camp's theatre, I was lucky the Army posted the Phoenix soon afterwards to my new location but it filled the room with its nice walnut cabinet and I could not get out of bed, so I was once again lucky to be allowed to stick it in one of the change rooms at the rear of the cinema, where I would occasionally go and play the organ. It was in its element there and one day a soldier came into the cinema and enquired if I had an organ in the cinema. "Yes," I told the soldier. I was then asked if the soldier could see the organ, so I took the soldier to the place where the Hammond was ready and waiting for me to play it, next to another Hammond organ I had bought in Melbourne, a Hammond Aurora. I was asked if I could play one of the organs, so I played the Phoenix. My music playing appealed to my audience, but apart from the dust beetles, the moths and the odd rat and mouse, the soldier was delighted by what he had heard. So was I, especially when the soldier asked me if I would sell him the organ. I would have said "No, the organ is not for sale" but as I had the Aurora I said "Yes", to lighten my responsibility of having to have two organs transported to my new location in the month ahead after having spent three years in the land of four winds which describes Puckapunyal. After nine years of military service, I moved to Perth to settle in civvy street. I began to compile my stories of my ventures in the military force and also my yarns as productions or novels. Either way, they were my stories pieced together using my drawings and written material. My primary story, about children exploring castles in England and Scotland about a boy wizard who had been orphaned and had to grow up with his aunt and uncle and their son, was needing the main character to be named and as my mind wandered about my locale I thought of the street name I live on and it caused my mind to roam back to my days in Puckapunyal to remember the name of the soldier who had bought my Hammond Phoenix organ towards the end of the year 1982. His name was "Harry Potter". My street name is Harrison, so I settled for the name Harry Potter and subsequently created another title name for my stories about a wizard boy. The subsequent title name I formed for my stories about a wizard boy was 'Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix". My writer's name is J. K. Rawling, but my stories got published by a woman named J. K. Rowling. If you want to know more about the wizard story, then follow through to The Liar Bird, jkrawling.tumblr.com/
Does it have a connection to real Leslie speaker or motion sound pro 145?
This organ has a small built in leslie unit I'm pretty sure
🥰Organ music is such a beauty
That was great 👍 Those old Lowrey organs were much under rated.
Merci pour ta vidéo, mais il b3000 est très loin d'avoir le son du b3! J'en sais quelque chose puisque j'ai chez moi le b3000! Il serait bon pour une chapelle.
It's kind of like an early sinth and a classic Hammond B3 type sound combined! I just love the way the keyboard feels and I love the way the attack is it's so light and quick and punchy it's surprisingly warm for solid state. I'd rather record with this organ believe it or not then a b 3 for most of my pop rock stuff. I guess it's a little more modern but it's still a classic.
What is it with these r series organs? They seem to have a tone all there own. incredible beautiful swirling rich slow vibrato and chorus lush reverb and attack all of its own! No it doesn't sound like a B3 or c3 or a 100. However I happen to like it even better in spite of not having tubes which surprises the heck out of me!
It's a tone wheel Hammond, just like the A-100, B-3, etc., it has a solid state preamp and two amplifiers, no tubes. With the built-in two speed Leslie, plus a 8" and 15" bass speaker, those speakers help produce a full Hammond sound. For a full size Hammond keyboard, the footprint is small, doesn't take up a lot of room.
@@timothyrogers3647 yeah the speakers do sound good in this particular Hammond. I don't think these are the common hepner's they put in a lot of the organs in the 60s. I believe mine have Jensen's and they sound a lot better. My organ is an R 118 . It looks just like your organ however Tim. I'm not sure what differences there are .....? mine is a 1975. I was told from a buddy of mine who repairs hammonds and who's dad retired from Hammond after 35 years that the R series is a rare organ and they didn't make a lot of them . Many are gone and forgotten about .....and was the very last good Hammond tone wheel organ.
What is the last song at 25:31?
That is the main riff or part of the song "Green-Eyed Lady" , by Sugarloaf
@@timothyrogers3647 Oh, thank you, master. ;)
I live in a mobile home park in Santa Rosa CA. and there is Gulbransen Rialto II in the parks community hall for the residents to play. This is a wonderful instrument. I spoke to the park manager and he says no one ever plays it and it's just collecting dust and wasting space. So since I am the resident musician in the park he ask if I knew anyone who might want it. It is in immaculate condition with a full leather cover. If I had room I would take it in a heartbeat...but I don't. So if anyone is interested please reply to this post and let me know.
I live in a mobile home park in Santa Rosa CA. and there is one of these wonderful instruments in the parks community hall for the residents to play. I spoke to the park manager and he says no one ever plays it and it's just collecting dust and wasting space. So since I am the resident musician in the park he ask if I knew anyone who might want it. It is in immaculate condition with a full leather cover. If I had room I would take it in a heartbeat...but I don't. So if anyone is interested please reply to this post and let me know.
He must have gone through about 200 sounds and at least 80 of them sound identical
Crappy, electronic, analog junk!
Great demo
8:26 nice clonewheel sound!
Wow!!! Remember "el chicano"
I sold Lowrey organs at a mall in North Riverside,Il. This was back around the early 80’s and I remember when the first MX-1 came in. When I first sat down to play it I almost fell off the bench. I was totally amazed at what was available at your fingertips. We retailed it for 25000.00. It was one fun instrument and it attracted a crowd every time we played it. One of the highlights during that era was when we gave a concert on the MX-1 with the great Dennis Awe performing on it. That was a time when I can honestly say I loved going to work!
What does the Leslie Celeste do? Thank you :)
The Leslie, (rotating speaker) on celeste, the speaker rotates at a slow speed, the flute/Tibia sounds normally go through the Leslie speaker.
Midi the output and drive a VPO.
joues tu avec une leslie?? ou avec juste l orgue