Gem Jumbo 61 Transistor Combi Organ Demonstration
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Ken Blackbeard, aka Steve Christie demonstrates the Gem Jumbo 61 transistor combo organ
With
Blackbeard Singing In The Dead Of Night.
Featuring ‘blackbird’ written by Lennon/McCartney and a snippet of Iron Butterfly, and then the rest of the music, including improvisations are composed by Steve Christie
Filmed and Edited by Louisa Revolta
Recorded and Mixed by Steve Christie at Vintage Keys Studio
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Nice one Steve! It would be great if you made a video of one of your repairs.
In a way this reminds of an RMI keyboard I owned many years ago. Lots of love for transistors again. Love your presentations and musicality. Characterful, definitely. 🎧🎙
this is possibly my favorite channel on youtube
Me too... it's just..... perfect...
Me three.
JEEEEEZAS KERIST MAN!!! Some of us are wearing headphones ....don't ya know...
Reminds me of our old farfisa combo organ. That one could really blast through the 100 watt Ampeg!
My Farfisa Compact Deluxe kicked ass through a 15 watt Ampeg Gemini II, then a 100 watt VT-22 with 2 Altec Lansing speakers, and ultimately, a 300 watt SVT (which was loud enough to open up the heavens). I played left-handed bass with that. Never needed a bass guitarist (sorry, bassists). Great organ.
@@RBLevin i had a vip 600 farfisa that I played the bass on as well.
Bringing old instruments to life! I would get that parrot de-liced though.
I wanted the other 9 minutes of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida :( ;) :)
This is what my mini gem used to sound like before it died. Sorta too.loud and distorted, I loved it! Now I got a yc10 and some pedals to approximate the gem. This one sounds amazing!
That cornet plus vibrato @7min is lovely 🙃
Nice Magic Roundabout homage at 2:00 😁
Dougal!
Very nice sunrise/sunset lighting.
Great sounds!
Interesting t hear a Comb Organ demo. This sounds typical of many of the breed from the 1960's/'70's. hee's a couple f Facebook groups for Combo rgan enhusiasts (I co-moderate one), plus the Combo Heaven" Website.. Back in the day I had a WEM Telstar combo rgan. Sadly, it suffered water damage in storage & not having an immediate need for it, I scrapped it. Wish I'd hung on to it! Keep up the good work.
Ur Killin it pretty boy
I guess - regardless of the parrot on top - pirates like the water way much more than the vintage electric organs do. Thanks for sharing this jumbo-entertaining video which matchlessly brought together two historical topics. Great as always :-)!
I like the sound off it, is it still as characterful through line out?
Not really - it is the knackered speaker that adds the magic
@@VintageKeysStudio I suppose you could run it into a distortion pedal, but it is a distinctive sound and you like it. I had a combo organ which caught fire, no less, whilst playing. The sound it made was sadly, not recorded.
@@VintageKeysStudio Thanks for replying, your videos are pretty decent and you can play well, always a bonus
There was one for sale in our local tip shop this morning. I'm guessing they'd want about £10?
Magnífico instrumento nostálgico bastante parecido s los Farfisa. De ese tiempo.
I think there's a rhythm section added version of the jumbo61 thats marked "R6" after the name
Killer Piratical Organ tones.. Very reminiscent of that overdriven 70s Nigerian organ sound.
You should make a sample set of sounds for yourself if you decide to fix it, because your right the tones it makes now are cool and usable for sure. But I’d love to hear it fully restored.
Cheers yes good plan! One rainy day soon hopefully
I can see how instruments like the Casio CT-202 pissed all over things like this when they were released.
And also crapped.
Request: Run it into an amp and blast some of the intro to ‘It’s All Too Much’.
You can make replacements for those oscillator divider chips from modern logic chips and adapter boards. It's not that hard to make one.
I'm working on a 70s italian Eko organ that has similar sounds and percussion, it uses TAA divider chips, one has one section bad but I rewired it to use another section that's still good.
Wow - one day when I get time I will look into this - if you have any links to info online about this, we would be very interested to see it
@@VintageKeysStudio What I did for my Elka organ is using 12 4040 binary counters + diodes, acting as a 'divide by N' as the note dividers (to get the right pitch divided down from a 2MHz master oscillator) and then another 12 4040 binary counters to divide the note to a bunch of octaves of that note. After that it's just a few bazillion wires going to the rest of the organ lol
Are they IC's or resistor arrays? I acquired a stock of components from a reired electronic organ builder and it ncludes some (presumably) resistor arrays - probably used in "Harmonics of Bromley" organs.
Hi Tony - they are ICs with I think some resistor arrays (Multi legged resistors)
Phat!
Seems like Blackbeard might've used a Gem after the concertina proved rather limiting (and Polly complained). I believe he plundered and found the rare Gem Booty model. Really like that biting, crisp sound, with that richness. I used to have an Imperial (Elka, I think), and that kind of reminds me of that.
Yes Blackbeard just wanted to move with the times - Polly was just a nuisance to him I think. He buried the Gem Booty on an island under a large X - I am hoping to go on a quest to find it one day
@@VintageKeysStudio That large X always does mark the "top secret" spot in pirate language. Didn't Blackbeard later team up with Scotty and the Peglegs (known for their sometimes hit "I'm picking up a splinter over you" ?)
Is there any way you could play something through the earphone out so we can hear what it sounds like normally?
Yes can do - bear with us
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Next time you can cover While My Guitarrrrrrrr Gently Weeps.
Do you have this piece recorded somewhere?
It was improvised on the spot, so only on this video. There is talk of issuing a vintage keys lectures ‘soundtrack’ album once a few more videos are recorded :)
Could you circuit bend it? Add a filter etc?
In a way all these old keyboards are circuit bent since all the capacitors have probably drifted. 😆
Yes - one day I am going to make them all interconnectable - our ondioline is and is great for acoustic instruments. You can get some very similar tones to Brian May’s Deacy amp!
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