The Organ Forum

The little B6 was the 1st Yamaha model imported into Australia in 1965.  It was imported direct by music dealers, as Nippon Gakki Co. (Yamaha) had no local distributor until 1969 when Rose Music P/L was appointed to handle all Yamaha music and audio products.  It holds special memories for me as a favourite aunt purchased one of the first to arrive out of her inheritance from my grandfather at a cost then I remember of 470 Aust.Guineas.  About a month after the organ was delivered a package arrived from Japan containing a number of Japanese Dolls to decorate the cabinet with and a vinyl 33rpm record containing a whole pile of sounds with audio descriptions of how to achieve them, as a thankyou for purchasing one of their products.  That instrument was my first experience with electronic organ, I was fascinated and spent a lot of time getting to know how to use it.  You'll notice from the pic that it has a 44 note upper & 37 note lower (Japanese for spinet?) and the pedals are of the extended length spinet variety which did not reappear until the HS series over 2 decades later.  As you would expect it came complete without tremolo or pedal sustain and the amp was of the valve variety.

The instrument is still in the family, with my aunt's granddaughter, has never had a service call, and being a Yamaha, it still works perfectly.