I've already said how much I like Organ World, and that you can produce some wonderful 'old school' electronic organ sounds, not just the almost inevitable Hammond Jazz and Pop sounds and the Klaus Wunderlich Wersi emulations. Well, I was just idling my way around T5 today when, while showing a stud...
Hi I finally completed the update on my website at http://www.andrew-gilbert.com last night. Lots of new photos, some new and updated stories, more teaching materials, music and audio tracks to download. I also had a 'training course' in HTML coding from my son - brain hurts now! So I'll be able to ...
And worse, I've got my some of my 'serious' organ students to do the same in services!
It's not always the organist that's to blame though! My Dad actually wanted 'Sailing' for his funeral, so I wrote a church organ arrangement especially for that.
As I've said elsewhere, you can't blame Nigel for the initial change to Hammond and pipes only, which was forced on him, together with the reduction to the 30 minute format and the move to the graveyard slot. At his request, I'd sent him a CD of a dozen items only to hear back telling me that it cou...
I personally think all this talk of VSTi's (Virtual Instrument Technology Instruments) is something of a red herring. There are just a few arrangers that can load them in and play them, Wersi being the obvious one that Bill will be thinking of. However, as Bill and I both know very well, just playin...
As some of you know, I was given a mint Kawai SR6 a few months back, and I'm loving it! Back to the late 80's in sounds and the way I play it. However, as with all digital organs that old, you do take a chance on something major failing. So I was delighted to be given a second mint SR6 as a back up....
As someone who uses some of your apps, and also gets his students to use them, can I say congratulations and thanks for what you've done for Yamaha keyboard owners over the years!
I know what you mean. Obviously I know all the Yamaha guys and have spoken to almost all of them about the 'T5' in the past few months. No way to tell anything about it from what they have told me, other than it's on the way, which we all knew anyway! Different people said different things. Called T...
Interestingly, Yamaha have registered a 'Tyros5-61' and a 'Tyros5-76' for electrical safety regulations in Canada. So, part of the secret seems to be out - unless they're spreading misinformation over there as well as over here. :) Here's the link. http://database.ul.com/cgi-bin/XYV/template/LISEXT/...
Ooh! PDF viewer is now working on this computer! Did you tweak something? The article is indeed a lot of lobbocks, but as for the photo, in one of the Fab 4's films (Help, I think??) there was a scene where the boys came 'home' into nextdoor terraced houses. But when they went inside, all the houses...
It has been a bit quiet on all the forums (fora) that I moderate or visit regularly. Not just keyboards, but ferries, model boats, local history too. Now the Autumn's with us , maybe people will sit down at their screens and things will pick up.
It's a brilliant bit of kit. One proviso, and Neo do state this themselves. It's a simulation of a miked leslie cabinet. Its prime purpose is to go between the organ and the stage PA system at a live gig or to replace a miked leslie in a studio. It can't quite do what you might do with the leslie si...
Just a quick update. The leslie 760 has now been wired up, one slightly intermittent note quickly cured and a stereo input socket installed for the Kawai K1m module when I find one. The sound is glorious, but it's not quite as Hammondy as I remembered. No worries though, it's even purer and the name...
1812 nails it Organist - Dave Smith (still around and over on the Lowrey Heritage Yahoo group from time to time) Organ - Lowrey Music - 1812 overture, finale Effect - cannons Method - lift up end of organ and rock it, causing reverb springs to clatter, creating the 'bang' I included the 1812 as the ...
I'll happily give you the answer tomorrow if no-one's got it by then. I played the same piece in a different style and got the effect in a different, but also 'non standard' way - if that helps!
Thanks for the extra info, Tony. I can think of only one other company that produced organs using real-time digital additive synthesis. Building up voices from sine waves in real time was something that Kawai were working on from the mid to late 1970s. It was kept secret even from the worldwide dist...
The Bradford system was adopted by Wyvern for many years, but they moved on to other forms of digital tone generation. I guess that may have been the end for Bradford?
The values in the Blue Book were always silly anyway, and it was based on the US market. Here in the UK we did have the 'Yellow Book' which gave trade in allowances - very LOW allowances! These 'trade only' yellow books did sometimes get into non-trade hands and a few people were incensed by how lit...
BB is a good source of information, but don't take everything in it as gospel. Info was provided by the manufacturers and they didn't always tell the truth! The other resource I use for dating an old model (not sure that reads quite right.... :D ) is the 'Mother List', compiled by Organ Forum's Jan ...
Orchestrally Yours was on the Kawai T30. I picked that one up in a job lot on eBay last year, and somewhere around I do have a cassette of Sharpie on the RiHa Orchestra. Can't get to the cassettes right now, huge pile of old organ LP's to be listened to and 'digitised' - right in the way of the tape...
Are we still talking Kawai here, Bill? If so, the biggest model Brian usually used in concert at that time was the E550. We did also have the T30 but he certainly didn't take that one around very often! But he also used the Technics Pro 90 or U90, and we mustn't forget the RiHa Orchestra -and he'd p...
Ah well, as the first part has been answered... Brian Sharp is the player. The keyboard we (or was it I?) loaned him from Kawai was the Kawai S100P synth. He'd put it on top of whatever he was playing. Probably somewhat awkward if he was supposed to be playing a gig on the Tehcnics U90! It actually ...
Nice little entry level keyboards, but the step up in voice quality will still no doubt occur at the E4xx level. This gives some very good hints about what we'll find on the E443, probably late this year or early next.