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Subject: My last word on combo organs

From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...
Date: 1999-10-17

If you think THAT sounded like crap, you shoulda heard my FIRST combo organ.
It was a Doric - Italian job with no tone tabs, BUT it DID have a separate
volume knob for each octave - I'm not kidding! It used a top octave divider,
and after awhile I'd have to whack it on the top during gigs because all the
'G' keys would stop working.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

I progressed from there to a Farfisa Combo Compact, then a Gibson, THEN the
Professional, then a Hammond B-2, then a Korg CX-3, then (shudder) ROMplers,
then a C-3, then a Roland VK-1000, then a B-3.

Hmmmm, ain't nothin like the real thing baby..

To keep this at least slightly on topic, the Hammond sure sounds good with
my MOTM when I pretend to be Emerson on 'Hoedown'.

Moe

> Funny, I played the dual keyboard VIP model all through my high
> school band
> and never even thought about that. I think they sounded like crap, BUT,
> like Dave said, they could sound god through a Leslie. I ran mine through
> a 122 and 145 both turned up to 11 with special 300 degree pots I got from
> Paul.
>
> Farfisa... No wonder they had it buried in the mix. HAHA
>
> Larry H