Just heard the news on the TV. I have had a couple of students playing Light my Fire in the past few weeks. He'll continue to inspire the new generations! RIP Ray.

User manual is available from Yamaha's own site here: http://www.yamaha.co.jp/manual/english/search.php?div=emi Just type D85 in the box! It's a pdf file so you download it and view or print as...

Really hard to say from this photo, but certainly an early model - late 50s to early 60s. Divide price by 10.

This is just a repeat of the two threads that the OP opened in February. It serves no purpose, so I'm closing it.

If anyone wants to contribute to the original thread, feel free!
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If you get no replies here, sign up at the Yahoo Lowrey group and ask there. They're a friendly bunch and there are a few members who have old organs, perhaps non-runners, who might be able to help....

If they go under, then yes, you'll be in trouble. Unless another company rescues the failed one. In fact, if you read the story on their website, you'll find that they did go bust once before!...

No problem. I took a few years out from the music business while my children were young and ended up clearing freight through UK Customs. The 'single market' came in at the start of 1993, making...

I haven't played a Pari for many years. That was the XTO, their clone version of the T series. It was not in the same class when it came to sound back then. Reliability? There were reports back then...

Wes is correct, but you could simply just scrounge something like a suitable hi-fi speaker and route the reverb to that instead of the internal speaker.

Huge advantage in the 900C and I do mean HUUUUUGE!!!!

Massively increased range of sounds and styles, the ability to mix many more sounds together the way you want to do it. You can save and load...

You ideally need a leslie connector kit, to give you full control over things. A100 to leslie 122 requires an 8101 kit.

Others will confirm if it will also drive the 31H. The jury is out as to...

Roland UK released registration disks from all their artistes, as well as a registration disk to go with the large album of popular music that was bundled with the organs. Not sure if I can pass...

Another guitarist who plays too loud, eh! ;-)

Sharmas scream, or should do. They're more gutsy than the equivalent leslie, that's why they called their designer, Keith Hitchcock, the 'decibel...

If you go for the 740, it will faithfully deliver all the E70's channels (3 - I think!). A 722 or 720 only has 2 channels, so you'd then need a matching 'top box' - a 515 for the 722 or a 540 for the...

Ah, now you're talking about a different type of 'bobbing', as well as introducing swaying into the mix.

Swaying? Perfectly natural, if not overdone, and it depends on the performer. Some sit or...

Hi Doddy.

Some time ago I recorded a virtual Hammond X66 track, using the B4 Hammond VSTi. I had to use several instances of it, one for the first 9 drawbars on both manuals and one each for the...

Probably not given today's market.

Roy Castle did a series of ads for Technics organs at the time of the U series. I'll find one and scan it.

I guess that they gave him a U90 as well - remember that the home organ business was...

I've moved this to the correct place for you.

But please check. The Paragon and the 400 series Gulbransens are very different instruments. A Paragon will be either a 21xx series, 3100 series or...

Don't knock the 'upgrade' bit. For many home players, a move up to a much newer organ (probably 3 manual if it has a synth built in) is one heck of an upgrade from a 1950's M!

And for some, an...

2 channel - YDRC!

(non standard abbreviation - You Do Recall Correctly) ;-)

It's not a Hammond, really. Just a re-badged Ace Tone GT2, known as the Hammond X2. Ok-ish sound when you plug it into a leslie, but more brittle than a tonewheel or a later clone.

1975 vintage....

Not many Conns were 3 channel, so not a big market there. Several makes produced 3 and 4 channel organs - Lowrey, Kawai, Yamaha, Hammond, Gulbransen to name a few. But finding the buyer who wants...

Ah, the dreaded semi-colon! Much misunderstood and much abused.

At that point in the sentence, I only wanted a small pause in the flow, hence the comma. A full stop (period to some....) would...

1963 - tube dividers. Usual things with these oldies. Power supply, e-caps etc, as well as tubes. It won't be worth a light when you've done, of course, but you'll have kept an old lady from the dump.