Yamaha makes the best keybeds. When everyone else was going through Pratt Reed for those awful j wire harpsichord keybeds, Yamaha thought “maybe people would like a little resistance and a consistent, robust feel”. I’m so glad they exist.
Thank you for demonstrating all the potential sound configurations as I wasn't aware of many of them. We have owned this same rare model (serial 8388) since being purchased new for my sister's use in Germany, late 1970s. It still looks new and has fallen into my non-musical hands for disposal. I was planning to offer it to a charity shop but had to make it work properly first. I found, as you would have, that every single one of the 65 rocker, lever and pushbutton switches was assembled with a grease on the electrical contacts that degrades into a non-conductive film, and a small red rubber pad, intended to quieten the switch action, can drop into and jam the mechanism. I spent a week disassembling and cleaning every single switch with good results. But I still have one elusive fault (edit Aug 2024, now fixed) where the Special Presets output VCA is working but not being enabled under any switch setting. It's not easy to troubleshoot having only the schematics from a later model. But now that I better understand the capabilities I'm more interested in finding a more deserving home for it.
Really enjoyed this tour of the C-55. I have a D-80 which is similar but adds a 3-octave SY-style monosynth. These old Electone organs were amazing machines.
Love your channel and your vibe. I'm restoring a 1972 Electone D-3R at the moment, it's white, discrete components, built-in rotary speaker, after-touch, the full works. You have to really really love these things to restore them, they're absolute blackholes of time, money and parts. BUT, I've never said no to rows of hand drawn PCBs and dizzying looms of wires. And my all time favourite, no schematics. Just my iron, my dmm and my techtronix, old school. It's always a pleasure restoring vintage Japanese gear.
@@VintageKeysStudio I will be revisiting your channel. Fifty years or more ago, I had a restaurant with a small stage. I bought a Hammond Spinnet, a half-bass keyboard, and a set of manuals called The Anchor Series. Within just a few weeks, I was confident enough to play for the customers. No one got up and walked out, so I guess the performance was at least acceptable. A friend, a pro drummer, had a music shop in the town. He would gig with an jazz organist called Dave Smith who played the Lowrey Holiday hooked up to two Leslie Speakers. Phenomenal.
Electony's final verdict: "I like these fader-switches cuz they are coloured like my favourite sort of sweets is - and just looking electilicious!" I don't disagree; all the best and thanks for sharing :-)!
I love these old Electones, we had one at school, I cant remember the model but it was great. Easy to play and set up, if my only space for instruments wasn’t on the third floor and limited access through the bar of a busy pub, I’d be re homing unloved instruments off marketplace. Managed to squeeze my EL90 up there after taking it to bits, it has no fatty fat fat pig rhythm either, wasn’t worth the effort.
I bought a new C55N in about 1981, (£2000), like the C55 but with additional solo control on the presets. I often used the strings through the symphony tremolo and the flutes through the Leslie. Preset 1 on the upper was designed to sound like a Hammond with percussion. Direct Leslie cabinet output too. Great organ, I’m sorry I gave mine away.
Ahh yes - we did have a C55N about 10 years ago, but it was too big for the space we had so we had to dump it too. Somewhere there is a huge organ graveyard
Hello Steve, that C55 Electone keyboard by Yamaha is such a really Masterwork of ageless electronic engineering which performed by you, turns into a huge Sonic Diamond !!
This organ is a part of the PASS models (Pulse Analog Synthesis System iirc) which included many organs from the smallest A series (A55, a few others) to the E series full size consoles which includes the E70, E75, etc. The letter tells you the general specs, usually. Each later letter usually has everything of the letters above, if not an upgraded version of whatever the letters before had. A - 37 keys per manual B - 44 keys per manual w/ electric tremolo (no leslie) C - 44 keys per manual w/ leslie type tremolo D - 49 keys per manual, in the case of the D85, and earlier D80 and DK40 models you get a 3rd smaller manual on top. E - 61 keys per manual, 25 note pedalboard (No third manual on any of the E models, except the EX-1.) There's also the EX series which included the stage model version of the E70 (EX-2) and the giant EX-1. Interestingly enough, over here in America the letter system isn't used, so the D65 becomes the 405, etc. I'm really not sure why they did it like that. There's a great brochure that shows a lot of these models called "Think of a Sound", and can be found on the organ forum. Great vid!
(2 of 2) read other first...either way okay. [my notepad I wrote a while back]. You will want to use this web page as a reference- *Hammond S6 - Crasno Electronics* . s6 video and demo record on that page. (Schematics listed below MOD, below) I have a 1955 S6 with Hammond 3 spring necklace reverb and AO-35 reverb amp. Absolutely you can play modern music on it. I set a band in a box Yamaha keyboard on top with decent drum beats. It's an incredible solo w/ right hand and jam left hand on top keyboard. The knee volume is actually more dynamic and quicker to change levels versus a foot pedal. About the chord buttons, you clean the contacts by rapidly moving back and forth an inset lever directly under chord buttons (looking straight up from the pedals. THE MOD!: 1 wire mod, You'll need to reference this S6 PREAMP/ AMP SCHEMATIC- web.archive *DOT* org/web/20040525091507/users.rcn *DOT* com/clonk/ChordOrgan/Schematics/Figure6 *DOT* gif MOD- The chord buttons can sound like the heaviest thundering, but very controllable smooth guitar like distortion with the flip of of a switch spdt ( single pole double throw switch), The mod is 1 wire change. On schematic locate: V20 12au7 tube [v= valve aka tube] Locate Pedal output wire at V20 pin 2 Now the mod is simply moving the pedal signal _back_ one tube stage, thus doubling the gain. The tube stage is V20 pin 7. Yes, V20 is a dual triode, so the pin 7 is the adjacent stage directly before the pedal into pin 2 V20. WIRING THE SWITCH: [Note SPDT= Single pole Double throw, a 3 terminal switch, where center terminal '2' is the 'in'+1 or 'in'+3] If you want a totally invisible switch, you can change the " PEDAL BALANCER " control knob on the organs front panel [the 1 meg potentiometer R265 ], change to a *1 meg SPDT Pull pot switch* and wire it, [or a separate SPDT flip switch, your call...btw, you can mount the switch in a tiny metal box and velcro it under the key desk], Anyway, wire as: -------------------- lift pedal signal wire from V20 PIN 2 and solder to center [terminal 2] on the 3 switch. ------------------- run wire from the switch's terminal 1 to V20 pin 7 ------------------- run wire from the switch's terminal 3 to V20 pin 2 It is very worth while getting an S6 service manual. It also has playing tips. Fortunately I printed the full manual when Klonk uploaded it. For some reason it was removed, but I found the schematic above on the way back machine. It being Klonks, they saved some of it anyway.
@@paulj0557toneheadive got a killer guitar amp i built out of an AO35 reverb driver amp I bought off of ebay. Those things are quite close to a vox ac15 and aside from the preamp stage, which i reconfigured to use an EF86 small signal Pentode tube, i mostly left the rest of the amp stock. Its a beast.
@Vintage Keys Studio The keyboard/gubbins could do with a refit but the amp is in lovely condition, even has it's old cover!. The amp is identical to your one so Selmer did indeed make them, I'm not sure why you're isn't branded Selmer?. An O.E.M thing and different sales areas.
You ought to do a little blurb on the amazing YAMAHA Leslie cabinet with the carousel speakers that David Gilmour so loved on Animals. I wish I hadn't sold mine!
Really interesting tutorial/explanation I've seen one on fb mp for 50€ but I think buying such a huge instrument would definitely mean being thrown out w/ the organ by my parents 🤣
Sounds a lot like my Farfisa Compact Deluxe. I had two of them. First one was beat up but I played the crap out of it. Second one was mint condition. Stupidly sold both. Bought a new Rhodes Suitcase 88 with it. Loved that but ...
I remember seeing an advert in a magazine around 1980 for a Yamaha C605 which i think was the flagship model, I cut the advert out and kept it for years I was fascinated by all switches and buttons . Have you ever come across one ?
After the C55 model range came the C55N, which was a slight facelift and included the big drum fill-in button that lit up green. I believe the C605 was in the next range after the N series.
Thank you Mr. Fat(y).. Please continue the pursuit, these machines deserve the attention.. I happen to be of similar ilk.. 3 Hammonds and now a Wurlitzer. What to do?
I always wondered what the different tones of an organ like this would sound like if you could detune them all slightly against each other like a synthesizer might do
Lovely, the speaker mutes blew on my D-65, have no clue what parts are needed to fix, apparently could be 1 of 4 resistors. 1 person quoting silly money to come to me to fix it. Great sound, not so great through the headphone out. Might need to open it up to look for charred pieces.
Hope you try the 1-wire mod on the Hammond S6 Chord Organ you have sitting there. Easy (recommend making it bypass able with spdt switch): MOD: Lift pedal signal wire from V20 PIN 2, and put it on V20 PIN 7. done. It's a beast!
@@VintageKeysStudio I stumbled into the mod originally because half the dual triode tube was weak so I moved it back one stage. The gain sends the chord buttons into speed metal guitar territory. Have fun with it. It's great! I sit in front of the chord buttons (which you clean with recessed slider under key desk) and play quazi Sabbath meets Slayer...but it's more than that really, the sensitivity of the buttons allow for less notes if you press with less force. That and your L &R foot working the pedals, you've got a viable instrument. You can also put a pot or 'resistor decade box' between the signal wire and V20 PIN 7. I'll reply again with the service manual link (w/ gaps or spelling 'dot' or whatever). I'd downloaded and fortunately printed the whole manual 15yrs ago, but was removed from web. Bummer. However I found the schematic and chassis layout on the Way Back Machine. I put info on a 'notepad' doc. I'll copy and paste in next comment. BTW my '55 ebony S6 came with AO-35 reverb amp W/ 3-spring 'necklace reverb'. The greatest reverb ever imho. S6's benefit so much from reverb. Including the mod, but if you are jamming legato at breakneck speed with a drum track, dry is fine. lol Hey make a video if you like it. Short learning curve. Rock on \m/ \m/ !!
@@paulj0557toneheadone wire mods of that type are also commonly done to increase gain on simple small wattage tube guitar amps like Fender tweed era Princetons, Deluxes, and many others. Some of those old amps would leave one half of a dual triode completely unused making them ripe for experimentation. A one wire mod can be used about anywhere you have two stages in parallel, the wire connects them in series so the gain is increased exponentially instead of additively. Its great for getting a bit more dirt out of the earlier circuits.
Well you've answered a 41 year old question, of what instrument played that clarinet sound. I wondered if it was a synth, but never thought it to be off one of these. There was quite some technology in those old organs. How much were they new, do you know?
Wow, A real Fad,fad,fad, Kick drum you've got there in that beasty organ of yours....., same for the Bass Pedals 2. Its a shame the Fadwa Is still bussy with trying to kill it'self by means of "self sacrifice"........ Thanks Steve, another great vid !
@@VintageKeysStudio Excellent ! sadly, i had to scrap mine when my parents house was sold :-( I spent quite a bit of time restoring it, mainly failed carbon rod resistors on the oscillators, and a few dividers had stopped. lovely sound, and i liked the 12 top-end oscilators as opposed to a single 2MHz divider. I have a scan of the service manual - let me know if its of any use 🙂
@jonathan_ansell - yes a scan of the service manual would be amazing! Thank you - please send me a message via our website vintagekeysstudio.com. It is a pretty big undertaking restoring one of these, especially with only the half a schematic I have here. It’s got a lovely tone to it though so I want to get it finished sometime. You can hear it on ‘Gospel Train’ by the Soul Agents. Cheers Steve
Im so sad my keys got ripped off and my farfisa was my first real one sentimental and historical value. It still had some little pieces of maskin tape on a few keys ball point pen marks of the note letter
@@VintageKeysStudio for one year. I think 74. The engineers at Yamaha produced a speaker shaped like a human ear to see what it sounded like. Big and weird it does sound huge.
From memory, I think it was called the "Natural Sound" speaker. (Pretty sure our B20BR had one.) I think that name inspired the NS-10 studio monitors that became ubiquitous for recording engineers. @@zeusapollo8688
We used to have that model at home when I was in my teens. I wonder what's wrong with your Wah Brass? I found it was a great novelty voice for playing "If I Only Had a Brain" from The Wizard of Oz. BTW, if you ever have it apart again, I remember an organ repair engineer telling me that the tremolo speed control had live mains voltage running through its terminals, so be careful! (that was on a B-20 model, though, so not sure if the C series was the same or not.)
sounds quite similar to a Solina F225 that I had. Its a shame that so many organs like these get binned as hard;y anyone wants them, same with pianos . i once saw a lovely Gem combo organ in the electrical skip at my local tip in Sussex. They wouldn't let me take it , all I got was a photo.
The RA100 leslie has adjustable high speed... i have mine modified as a "gas pedal.." where i adjust the speed via expression pedal... which is not as cool as it sounds.
You have shown us quite a few organs in your videos, and I have enjoyed it quite a lot, but one thing that annoys me is that you have never played any of them like they were supposed to be played. You always focus on the ridiculous things like arpeggiators, and wacky presets. I suppose this is out of fear of being labelled "easy listening musician" but I would like to hear some music where the organs are balanced and nice sounding. Of course you cannot play anything recognisable without getting demonetised but you can always improvise something.
I do play improvised stuff quite a bit but my videos are meant to educate on the functions of the organ. There are usually lots of functions to talk about so it would make very long videos if I were to demonstrate everything properly. There are plenty of other videos of organ showroom/klaus wunderlich style music on TH-cam. Playing old standards on organs is something that I am not really into, but thank you very much for your feedback and for watching this far! I will try to play something nice for you soon! ;)
Amazing instrument. So versatile! At 03:10 - My heart jumped out of my chest! 🤣
Hopefully lots of people will get a chance to sit on your magnificent organ real soon.
From 1978 I spent my youth with almost the same Yamaha organ : great memories !
Yamaha makes the best keybeds. When everyone else was going through Pratt Reed for those awful j wire harpsichord keybeds, Yamaha thought “maybe people would like a little resistance and a consistent, robust feel”. I’m so glad they exist.
man, that wah brass can really wake the dead. and by "wake the dead" I mean summon Satan and unleash all hell on earth
Haha, The 'Wah Brass' sounded like a firework display!
Thank you for demonstrating all the potential sound configurations as I wasn't aware of many of them. We have owned this same rare model (serial 8388) since being purchased new for my sister's use in Germany, late 1970s. It still looks new and has fallen into my non-musical hands for disposal. I was planning to offer it to a charity shop but had to make it work properly first. I found, as you would have, that every single one of the 65 rocker, lever and pushbutton switches was assembled with a grease on the electrical contacts that degrades into a non-conductive film, and a small red rubber pad, intended to quieten the switch action, can drop into and jam the mechanism. I spent a week disassembling and cleaning every single switch with good results. But I still have one elusive fault (edit Aug 2024, now fixed) where the Special Presets output VCA is working but not being enabled under any switch setting. It's not easy to troubleshoot having only the schematics from a later model. But now that I better understand the capabilities I'm more interested in finding a more deserving home for it.
Fantastic! Glad to be of help! They are wonderful organs and well worth the maintenance to get back up to speed. :)
6:39 Those strings could be mistaken for Eminent strings. Lots of string machines/synths/organs seem to have taken their cues from their circuitry.
Really enjoyed this tour of the C-55. I have a D-80 which is similar but adds a 3-octave SY-style monosynth. These old Electone organs were amazing machines.
Cool!!
I had one up until recently when it basically blew up. Didn't know how to repair it and the electronics shop lost interest
Love your playing, your humor, and those lovely Electone sounds.
Thank you:)
Love your channel and your vibe. I'm restoring a 1972 Electone D-3R at the moment, it's white, discrete components, built-in rotary speaker, after-touch, the full works. You have to really really love these things to restore them, they're absolute blackholes of time, money and parts. BUT, I've never said no to rows of hand drawn PCBs and dizzying looms of wires. And my all time favourite, no schematics. Just my iron, my dmm and my techtronix, old school. It's always a pleasure restoring vintage Japanese gear.
Thank you! That sounds like a lovely project! I wonder how it would compare with a C55?
Now i feel old i remember unboxing them when they first arrived in UK.
The broken Wah Brass fader can be useful... using some effects you can get good noise music from it.
That took me back to a previous life. Very enjoyable, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
@@VintageKeysStudio I will be revisiting your channel. Fifty years or more ago, I had a restaurant with a small stage. I bought a Hammond Spinnet, a half-bass keyboard, and a set of manuals called The Anchor Series. Within just a few weeks, I was confident enough to play for the customers. No one got up and walked out, so I guess the performance was at least acceptable. A friend, a pro drummer, had a music shop in the town. He would gig with an jazz organist called Dave Smith who played the Lowrey Holiday hooked up to two Leslie Speakers. Phenomenal.
Electony's final verdict: "I like these fader-switches cuz they are coloured like my favourite sort of sweets is - and just looking electilicious!" I don't disagree; all the best and thanks for sharing :-)!
I love these old Electones, we had one at school, I cant remember the model but it was great. Easy to play and set up, if my only space for instruments wasn’t on the third floor and limited access through the bar of a busy pub, I’d be re homing unloved instruments off marketplace. Managed to squeeze my EL90 up there after taking it to bits, it has no fatty fat fat pig rhythm either, wasn’t worth the effort.
The Specials used this keyboard also on many of their top hits!
I bought a new C55N in about 1981, (£2000), like the C55 but with additional solo control on the presets. I often used the strings through the symphony tremolo and the flutes through the Leslie. Preset 1 on the upper was designed to sound like a Hammond with percussion. Direct Leslie cabinet output too. Great organ, I’m sorry I gave mine away.
Ahh yes - we did have a C55N about 10 years ago, but it was too big for the space we had so we had to dump it too. Somewhere there is a huge organ graveyard
i just get one one mont ago, got it in exchange for a guitar, im in love with this organ, this video hel me to pull the trigger.
Hello Steve, that C55 Electone keyboard by Yamaha is such a really Masterwork of ageless electronic engineering which performed by you, turns into a huge Sonic Diamond !!
Thank you Jesus! Great name for a band ‘Sonic Diamond’
@@VintageKeysStudio Yes Steve, for sure it is a "Sonic Diamond" !!
This organ is a part of the PASS models (Pulse Analog Synthesis System iirc) which included many organs from the smallest A series (A55, a few others) to the E series full size consoles which includes the E70, E75, etc.
The letter tells you the general specs, usually. Each later letter usually has everything of the letters above, if not an upgraded version of whatever the letters before had.
A - 37 keys per manual
B - 44 keys per manual w/ electric tremolo (no leslie)
C - 44 keys per manual w/ leslie type tremolo
D - 49 keys per manual, in the case of the D85, and earlier D80 and DK40 models you get a 3rd smaller manual on top.
E - 61 keys per manual, 25 note pedalboard (No third manual on any of the E models, except the EX-1.)
There's also the EX series which included the stage model version of the E70 (EX-2) and the giant EX-1.
Interestingly enough, over here in America the letter system isn't used, so the D65 becomes the 405, etc.
I'm really not sure why they did it like that.
There's a great brochure that shows a lot of these models called "Think of a Sound", and can be found on the organ forum.
Great vid!
Thanks so much this is great info! Cheers :)
(2 of 2) read other first...either way okay.
[my notepad I wrote a while back].
You will want to use this web page as a reference- *Hammond S6 - Crasno Electronics* . s6 video and demo record on that page. (Schematics listed below MOD, below) I have a 1955 S6 with Hammond 3 spring necklace reverb and AO-35 reverb amp. Absolutely you can play modern music on it. I set a band in a box Yamaha keyboard on top with decent drum beats. It's an incredible solo w/ right hand and jam left hand on top keyboard. The knee volume is actually more dynamic and quicker to change levels versus a foot pedal. About the chord buttons, you clean the contacts by rapidly moving back and forth an inset lever directly under chord buttons (looking straight up from the pedals.
THE MOD!: 1 wire mod, You'll need to reference this S6 PREAMP/ AMP SCHEMATIC- web.archive *DOT* org/web/20040525091507/users.rcn *DOT* com/clonk/ChordOrgan/Schematics/Figure6 *DOT* gif
MOD- The chord buttons can sound like the heaviest thundering, but very controllable smooth guitar like distortion with the flip of of a switch spdt ( single pole double throw switch), The mod is 1 wire change.
On schematic locate:
V20 12au7 tube [v= valve aka tube]
Locate Pedal output wire at V20 pin 2
Now the mod is simply moving the pedal signal _back_ one tube stage, thus doubling the gain. The tube stage is V20 pin 7.
Yes, V20 is a dual triode, so the pin 7 is the adjacent stage directly before the pedal into pin 2 V20.
WIRING THE SWITCH: [Note SPDT= Single pole Double throw, a 3 terminal switch, where center terminal '2' is the 'in'+1 or 'in'+3]
If you want a totally invisible switch, you can change the " PEDAL BALANCER " control knob on the organs front panel [the 1 meg potentiometer R265 ], change to a *1 meg SPDT Pull pot switch* and wire it, [or a separate SPDT flip switch, your call...btw, you can mount the switch in a tiny metal box and velcro it under the key desk], Anyway, wire as:
-------------------- lift pedal signal wire from V20 PIN 2 and solder to center [terminal 2] on the 3 switch.
------------------- run wire from the switch's terminal 1 to V20 pin 7
------------------- run wire from the switch's terminal 3 to V20 pin 2
It is very worth while getting an S6 service manual. It also has playing tips. Fortunately I printed the full manual when Klonk uploaded it. For some reason it was removed, but I found the schematic above on the way back machine. It being Klonks, they saved some of it anyway.
@@paulj0557toneheadive got a killer guitar amp i built out of an AO35 reverb driver amp I bought off of ebay. Those things are quite close to a vox ac15 and aside from the preamp stage, which i reconfigured to use an EF86 small signal Pentode tube, i mostly left the rest of the amp stock. Its a beast.
Very interesting.
Always loved that tune and band.
BTW an old Clavioline washed up on the shores of the bay and it is indeed a Selmer!.
Bloody hell! What a find!
@Vintage Keys Studio
The keyboard/gubbins could do with a refit but the amp is in lovely condition, even has it's old cover!.
The amp is identical to your one so Selmer did indeed make them, I'm not sure why you're isn't branded Selmer?.
An O.E.M thing and different sales areas.
Super cool instrument. Makes me want to go listen to some Yuji Ohno right now
Finally! Been looking forward to this one.
I was just recently given a yamaha electone c40. I wish there’s a TH-cam channel that does tutorial how to play this.
Zany and informative as always.
Appreciated!
Mine lay on its back about 5 days in rainy weather on the roadside and still worked well, the devices are close to indestructible.
You ought to do a little blurb on the amazing YAMAHA Leslie cabinet with the carousel speakers that David Gilmour so loved on Animals. I wish I hadn't sold mine!
Thanks! I’ll check this out and see what we can do. We have one of Dave’s old 910s here which we are hoping to feature in a video soon.
Really interesting tutorial/explanation
I've seen one on fb mp for 50€ but I think buying such a huge instrument would definitely mean being thrown out w/ the organ by my parents 🤣
Yeah, I used to love tinkling the old ivories meself......30 years, man and boy. Quite taken by those swaders.....I could play with them for hours!
Brilliant and love the word ‘swaders’!
Sounds a lot like my Farfisa Compact Deluxe. I had two of them. First one was beat up but I played the crap out of it. Second one was mint condition. Stupidly sold both. Bought a new Rhodes Suitcase 88 with it. Loved that but ...
I remember seeing an advert in a magazine around 1980 for a Yamaha C605 which i think was the flagship model, I cut the advert out and kept it for years I was fascinated by all switches and buttons . Have you ever come across one ?
Sadly not - I think it was an updated one of these though with better arpeggios etc, certainly looks pretty similar
@@VintageKeysStudio some really nice sounds on these old organ's, love watching your chanel its always good fun 😁
After the C55 model range came the C55N, which was a slight facelift and included the big drum fill-in button that lit up green. I believe the C605 was in the next range after the N series.
la verdad sos un capo
Mustn’t press that one 😂😂😂😂
No…please…you must always press THAT ONE
made me laugh
Thank you for your work! James
Thank you James!
Can you please make a video on Yamaha YC45D. A very versatile instrument much ahead of its time, used extensively in Bollywood by many composers.
Thank you Mr. Fat(y).. Please continue the pursuit, these machines deserve the attention.. I happen to be of similar ilk.. 3 Hammonds and now a Wurlitzer. What to do?
All the ArpeGiggilow's flushed out the AutoWah setting, freeing it from fireworx... nice
I always wondered what the different tones of an organ like this would sound like if you could detune them all slightly against each other like a synthesizer might do
14:05 and also King by UB40?
I saw one of these at the local thrift for around 100$(?) but these are so cool
Looks like everything works OK, just goes to show how well made yamaha's were and still are
Ha! My dad had a B-35, first time I heard "Stereotype" I thought erm, well I can't remember, but I KNEW.
I got another leslie. Lol. Man i just cane back to sample that WAH BRASS... there's a sound that's been illegal for years!,
Lovely, the speaker mutes blew on my D-65, have no clue what parts are needed to fix, apparently could be 1 of 4 resistors. 1 person quoting silly money to come to me to fix it. Great sound, not so great through the headphone out. Might need to open it up to look for charred pieces.
That does it.. i gotta have one!
In "Single Finger Chord" mode, hold any black pedal for minor chords, any "white" pedal for 7th chords, or both at the same time for m7.
Thanks for the info
The yc-45d has to be the king... with portamento and all the wavky synth tones... it’s the best kept secret!
Hope you try the 1-wire mod on the Hammond S6 Chord Organ you have sitting there. Easy (recommend making it bypass able with spdt switch): MOD: Lift pedal signal wire from V20 PIN 2, and put it on V20 PIN 7. done. It's a beast!
Thanks I had not heard of this before - will try it out! :)
@@VintageKeysStudio I stumbled into the mod originally because half the dual triode tube was weak so I moved it back one stage. The gain sends the chord buttons into speed metal guitar territory. Have fun with it. It's great! I sit in front of the chord buttons (which you clean with recessed slider under key desk) and play quazi Sabbath meets Slayer...but it's more than that really, the sensitivity of the buttons allow for less notes if you press with less force. That and your L &R foot working the pedals, you've got a viable instrument.
You can also put a pot or 'resistor decade box' between the signal wire and V20 PIN 7. I'll reply again with the service manual link (w/ gaps or spelling 'dot' or whatever). I'd downloaded and fortunately printed the whole manual 15yrs ago, but was removed from web. Bummer. However I found the schematic and chassis layout on the Way Back Machine. I put info on a 'notepad' doc. I'll copy and paste in next comment.
BTW my '55 ebony S6 came with AO-35 reverb amp W/ 3-spring 'necklace reverb'. The greatest reverb ever imho. S6's benefit so much from reverb. Including the mod, but if you are jamming legato at breakneck speed with a drum track, dry is fine. lol Hey make a video if you like it. Short learning curve. Rock on \m/ \m/ !!
@@paulj0557toneheadone wire mods of that type are also commonly done to increase gain on simple small wattage tube guitar amps like Fender tweed era Princetons, Deluxes, and many others. Some of those old amps would leave one half of a dual triode completely unused making them ripe for experimentation. A one wire mod can be used about anywhere you have two stages in parallel, the wire connects them in series so the gain is increased exponentially instead of additively. Its great for getting a bit more dirt out of the earlier circuits.
"You may hear a screaming sound in the background"; that's the neighbours again (or, at 11:32, it could have been the Martians)!
2:25 - sounds like an ice cream van!
They're not Darth Faders?
Well you've answered a 41 year old question, of what instrument played that clarinet sound. I wondered if it was a synth, but never thought it to be off one of these.
There was quite some technology in those old organs. How much were they new, do you know?
Rather a lot of money - i would guess at over a grand, considering a Thomas organ of the same period was £1350ish
I used to have a C605p portable organ wish I never got rid of I also have a Yamaha YC25 combo. By the way have you had your hair cut.
Fantastic - yes my hair was press-ganged recently
Wow, A real Fad,fad,fad, Kick drum you've got there in that beasty organ of yours....., same for the Bass Pedals 2.
Its a shame the Fadwa Is still bussy with trying to kill it'self by means of "self sacrifice"........
Thanks Steve, another great vid !
Thank you:)
Animal Farm, by George Orwell "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS"
When they played "Ghost town" on Top of the Pops, The Specials used a Yamaha B75N
Random question - who’s in b&w photo on the wall? (HS?)
That’s the late great organist Don Shinn, Family friend and patron of the studio.
your intros are humanity's (one-fingered) answer to ai's 'taking all creative jobs soon'🐽
I used to have a 1964 Bird Organ - you can see the specials using one on whistle test. have you come across this model ?
Yes, we have a broken one with matching amp and stool, awaiting repair - our late friend Don Shinn used to play one with 60s UK band The Soul Agents
@@VintageKeysStudio Excellent ! sadly, i had to scrap mine when my parents house was sold :-( I spent quite a bit of time restoring it, mainly failed carbon rod resistors on the oscillators, and a few dividers had stopped.
lovely sound, and i liked the 12 top-end oscilators as opposed to a single 2MHz divider.
I have a scan of the service manual - let me know if its of any use 🙂
@jonathan_ansell - yes a scan of the service manual would be amazing! Thank you - please send me a message via our website vintagekeysstudio.com.
It is a pretty big undertaking restoring one of these, especially with only the half a schematic I have here. It’s got a lovely tone to it though so I want to get it finished sometime. You can hear it on ‘Gospel Train’ by the Soul Agents. Cheers Steve
At 20:20 you had a good thing going. Creativity released. Movie score time.
Thank you very much :)
Im so sad my keys got ripped off and my farfisa was my first real one sentimental and historical value. It still had some little pieces of maskin tape on a few keys ball point pen marks of the note letter
Had a cig lighter burn mark by the mute arm too
Do you think it's possible a Video on the E-75 in the future? Is the definitely THE BEST Electone. Cheers
If we can find one or someone will let us access one, yes definitely!
I think i have something similar out in the shed. Does yours have the ear shaped speaker?
I don’t think it does
@@VintageKeysStudio for one year. I think 74. The engineers at Yamaha produced a speaker shaped like a human ear to see what it sounded like. Big and weird it does sound huge.
From memory, I think it was called the "Natural Sound" speaker. (Pretty sure our B20BR had one.) I think that name inspired the NS-10 studio monitors that became ubiquitous for recording engineers. @@zeusapollo8688
We used to have that model at home when I was in my teens. I wonder what's wrong with your Wah Brass? I found it was a great novelty voice for playing "If I Only Had a Brain" from The Wizard of Oz. BTW, if you ever have it apart again, I remember an organ repair engineer telling me that the tremolo speed control had live mains voltage running through its terminals, so be careful! (that was on a B-20 model, though, so not sure if the C series was the same or not.)
Yes the tremolo (aka Leslie) speed control does have mains through it so yes folks, be very careful indeed!! Thanks John for your warning!
I thought they used a YC-45, tbf. That might have been Madness, though
What kind of speaker driver is face down on hammond?
Not sure of the make - may be an old Goodmans - it is going into the ondioline at some point
Its a yamaha one, i opened mine a couple days ago
I just got a Model c-40 but i know nothing about it. It would really help if you could show me or just tell me❤
If we had one or access to one, then sure!
picked up a c55 today ,lots of switches not working .
whats the song at 4:35?
A variation in the organ part from Ghost town while I was finding the right sound, I think
This thing sounds like an ice cream van, or a fairground.
PLEASE HOW MUTH IS IT ??
sounds quite similar to a Solina F225 that I had. Its a shame that so many organs like these get binned as hard;y anyone wants them, same with pianos . i once saw a lovely Gem combo organ in the electrical skip at my local tip in Sussex. They wouldn't let me take it , all I got was a photo.
The tune at the end sounded a bit like the Noseybonk theme (a Hippo called Hubert)
I loved Noseybonk!
The RA100 leslie has adjustable high speed... i have mine modified as a "gas pedal.." where i adjust the speed via expression pedal... which is not as cool as it sounds.
Woo!
The D85 was the daddy
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The speakers sit on the front. That´s where the microphones should be.
Yes, but it’s sounds good from the back too as it’s hollow inside
I saw one of these in a thrift store for a hundred bucks. I am still kicking myself for not buying it.
Love theme to an imaginary 70s porn flick... ahhh... and other immoral classics....
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You have shown us quite a few organs in your videos, and I have enjoyed it quite a lot, but one thing that annoys me is that you have never played any of them like they were supposed to be played. You always focus on the ridiculous things like arpeggiators, and wacky presets. I suppose this is out of fear of being labelled "easy listening musician" but I would like to hear some music where the organs are balanced and nice sounding. Of course you cannot play anything recognisable without getting demonetised but you can always improvise something.
I do play improvised stuff quite a bit but my videos are meant to educate on the functions of the organ. There are usually lots of functions to talk about so it would make very long videos if I were to demonstrate everything properly. There are plenty of other videos of organ showroom/klaus wunderlich style music on TH-cam. Playing old standards on organs is something that I am not really into, but thank you very much for your feedback and for watching this far! I will try to play something nice for you soon! ;)
My New friend ,Very good and Certainly worth a Thumbs up,🪗🪗🪗Mick. = 659