I'm not even going to ask the question I have in mind yet as otherwise you'll be comatose if it means nothing.
But the demographic of this forum leads me to deduce that possibly, just possibly, someone may have had experience with Yamaha home electronic organs.
Any takers?
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i used to have a Yamaha PSR 370 IIRC (So ill probably be wrong) electric keyboard
if that counts
But the keys where so small and not touch sensative you could hardly play anything on it properly
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Ah, ok. Was looking for experience with the floppy drive on an EL90 series.
Those PSRs are quite endinkulous actually, and the top end 9000 Pro is a nice beast.
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We have a Roland electric piano which has several "voices" including an organ. I use it as somewhere to park my mobile phone but Mrs ON occasionally plays a church organ and finds it useful to practise on. One advantage is she uses headphones while practising so it is painless, (for me).
Last edited by: Old Navy on Mon 21 Feb 11 at 17:29
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Ah, I don't know a great deal about Rolands, ON, other than they seem to have nice keyboards, but thank you for the input anyway.
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We have a Yamaha electric piano ('cos SWMBO insisted a house was incomplete without a piano) but none of us are beyond the basics in it's use.
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Well, the organ world is pretty well dead - the popularity has completely collapsed. Terribly old fashioned and only old folk have any interest.
Except that there is a bit of a resurgence. Prices are firming up a little too.
Look, for example, at this lad of nineteen and what he can do. Self taught, never had a lesson, can't read music. I appreciate the music is not exactly current taste of course, but technically it's blinking impressive. Better than me anyway.
www.youtube.com/user/GalaTM900#p/u/5/8aaxLuQ5bo8
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We denigrate our yoof too easily. There are any number of U-tube performances by teenagers on evry instrument under the sun.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KId6wrGvTQ&feature=fvsr
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Impressive stuff! Nice looking church too actually.
I see your fifteen year old and raise you one five year old.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK3mZUucQ9M
:)
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...at this lad of nineteen and what he can do...
Good stuff, took me back to holiday afternoons in the Gaiety Ballroom at Butlins.
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>> Good stuff, took me back to holiday afternoons in the Gaiety Ballroom at Butlins.
Peasholm Park was the image for me. Still going, not least as a preface to Scarborough's Naval Warfare.
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One of the bonuses of a C of E grammar education (Southwell Minster) was a lasting appreciation of both sacred and secular organ music, from Bach to Rick Wakeman.
Had an electric organ (Howard Skyline) in my flat in Southwell in the late 1980's, unfortunately had to store it when I moved with my job to Stevenage, and it ended up vandalised.
I've currently got a Technics KN1500 keyboard gathering dust in the corner of my office; wonderful tool, but keyboards lack the spontaneity of a "proper" electric organ and it takes an effort for me to set it up and play it these days.
I occasionally keep an eye out on e-bay for a decent one; biggest problem with organs is they need to be played to keep them in decent nick (ooo-er missus!) I will hopefully find one soon that fits the bill, trouble is then I'll NEVER get these bikes finished!
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The bigger charity shops round my way usually have at least one 1970s style two manual organ.
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It's a bug. Charity shop ones for a fiver is where I started but you grow out of them very quickly, and have to spend, ooh, twice as much for something that cost thousands only a few years ago.
But there are some mega bargains out there cos nobody is very interested. Great things to play on though, and surprisingly different from a keyboard - adding in the pedals means you need all four limbs to play, and then you add in knee levers etc and it all gets a bit frenetic.
Hardly anybody makes them now, but you can still, astonishingly, pay 30k and more for a new one.
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We have a Yamaha DGX-300, great though not getting much use.
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I've had a couple of Yamaha keyboards and up until recently a fairly high-end Casio, but nothing with a disk drive I'm afraid.
My upright piano doesn't have one either.
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Our charity shop recently sold a nice Yamaha Clavinova.......
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My friend had a lovely Yamaha organ in the early 1970s, I think it had an R and a 5 in the model number. I saw one from that era in the crack converters shop in Limoges back along with a 300 euro price tag on it. I also saw a period Farfisa in a church down south a few weeks ago. I once inherited my mother-in-law's Hammond F2000, which is now still in my niece's house...but it all seems a long time ago now.
Is it true that the organ scene is dying? Is Nigel Ogden not still on the radio in the UK?
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Of course he is, though he's been shunted out to the late evening
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wr9w
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>> My friend had a lovely Yamaha organ in the early 1970s, I think it had
>> an R and a 5 in the model number.
Possibly a B5-BR, CR or DR. Last of the analogue sounds and for their period, good little beasts. Nothing to what was over the horizon of course when digital took off.
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Yes it was a B5-BR. It all comes back to me. Even after all these years I can't hear 'Stardust' without hearing her play it in my mind's ear...
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Farfisa in a church ......
Made me smile ,sounds quite rude and a mental picture of wrinkled noses...
Anyway I think we still have a Casio we bought for helicopter jr in the loft somewhere .
I stopped playing with my own organ a long time ago.....
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Anybody remember this organ classic.. SKy , one of my favourite groups of all time and all brilliant musicians
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbgUrp1a70
Saw them in concert a couple of times and my ears are still ringing , turn it up to 11 for the full effect....
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Serious long shot - yamaha organ - Redviper
