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Combo organs (1950s–) A combo organ ( Vox Continental) using transistors. It's light, compact and portable. By the 1960s, electronic organs were ubiquitous in all genres of popular music, from Lawrence Welk to acid rock (e.g. the Doors, Iron Butterfly) to the Bob Dylan album Blonde on Blonde.
electronic organ, keyboard musical instrument in which tone is generated by electronic circuits and radiated by loudspeaker. This instrument, which emerged in the early 20th century, was designed as an economical and compact substitute for the much larger and more complex pipe organ. The electronic organ resembles a spinet, or upright, piano in ...
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Jan 10, 2023 · Nord (a brand of the Swedish company Clavia) took the same approach in their Electro Series, first introduced in 2001, as did Italian companies Crumar and Viscount. Not to be left out, Hammond (now Hammond-Suzuki) released their own range of clonewheel organs like the XB Series, as well as the current XK and SK Series. Electronic Organs
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert [6] and first manufactured in 1935. [7] Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an electromagnetic ...
- 1935–1975 (tonewheel models), 1967–1985 (transistor models), 1986–present (digital models)
- $1,193 (Model A, 1935), $2,745 (Model B-3, 1955)
- Full
- Tonewheel
Mar 4, 2020 · Gray filed the patent for it in1875, formally calling it the Electric Telegraph for Transmitting Musical Tone. Apparently, his newfangled contraption didn’t catch on, because the first true electric organs didn’t emerge for another 45 years! 1919 – Electronic Organ. Early electric organs didn’t use Gray’s telegraph technology.
Electronic organs and electromechanical organs such as the Hammond organ have an established role in a number of popular-music genres, such as blues, jazz, gospel, and 1960s and 1970s rock music. Electronic and electromechanical organs were originally designed as lower-cost substitutes for pipe organs.
The electronic organ is derived from the harmonium - or reed organ - and the pipe organ, but with electricity. The early electronic organs began to be developed between 1897 and 1930 but they did not catch on immediately. The Telharmonium, which was created in 1897 by Thaddeus Cahill, was the first instrument of its kind, but weighed 200 tons ...
