Have any prog band used regular home organ

Organs are of various types and models, from cool organs like hammond and farfisa, to extravagant church/cathedral organs, to funny pump organs to silly mouth organs (harmonica . But i remember my uncle and aunty had an organ in their house a regular house organ, ( i do not know what model it is) but it produced organ sounds, and had many cool knobs and rythem box.


I wonder have any band for coolness sake or for practical reasons used a regular commoner house/home organ. I would find that to be a very cool thing.

Im all for practicality and if you have/had a home organ and you and your frinds were dabbing on profducing eppic prog music, a home organ would be an amazing tool.

Edited by Icarium - July 14 2023 at 04:45

I am all for organic and organ based sounds, allso homebased

Soft Machine (albums III and IV particularly) used a Lowrey Organ, which is the common home organ brand. They ran it through a distortion box to make it more gnarly. Robert Wyatt's "Rock Bottom" also features Lowrey type organs. The Pete Sinfield solo album uses a Symphoniser, which was the ultimate high end Lowrey. Bo Hanson used to use Lowrey type organs too. Alice Coltrane also used a Lowrey.
EDIT: Also "Welcome" album by Santana.

Edited by Easy Money - July 14 2023 at 11:11

Easy Money wrote: Soft Machine (albums III and IV particularly) used a Lowrey Organ, which is the common home organ brand. They ran it through a distortion box to make it more gnarly. Robert Wyatt's "Rock Bottom" also features Lowrey type organs. The Pete Sinfield solo album uses a Symphoniser, which was the ultimate high end Lowrey. Bo Hanson used to use Lowrey type organs too. Aklice Coltrane also used a Lowrey. EDIT: Also "Welcome" album by Santana.

mellotronwave wrote: Hi Icarium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Hudson i think this link will help best regards

cool read and nice to see musicians take different routes, also paving hes own path and playing hes own nieche gear choosing a gear based on being more interesting and sounding difference.

Easy Money wrote: The Pete Sinfield solo album uses a Symphoniser, which was the ultimate high end Lowrey.

I'm sure most prog keyboardists started out on an inexpensive home organ of some kind!  

Regarding Grumpy Olde Rick..... In 1966, he joined the Concordes, later known as the Concorde Quartet, playing dance and pop songs at local events with his cousin Alan Wakeman on saxophone and clarinet.^[10] Wakeman used the money earned from their gigs to buy a Hohner Pianet, his first electronic instrument.^[10]

^ That would be my guess based on the information that you have provided. The Lowery Symphoniser that I played on at the music store was a sort of short lived high end Lowrey organ that had a string symphoniser as an add on to the organ.

Re the Solina you mentioned: when I used to go to music stores in the mid 70s, they often had a ARP String Ensemble, I suppose this was what was later called a Solina, the bigger store in Dallas also had a Mellotron, plus a keyboard that used literal floppy disks called an Orchestron. It sounded similar to a Mellotron. I tried out a lot of keyboards in the 70s and still collect 70s keyboards and synths to this day.



Edited by Easy Money - July 15 2023 at 19:28

Gerinski wrote: The String Ensemble was first made by the Dutch company Eminent-Solina, and then ARP made a deal with them to sell it with the name ARP. Thanks to the commercial network of ARP the most successful version was the ARP one. And yes, the Orchestron was an attempt to take over on the Mellotron, but it came too late and it ws expensive, the electronic string machines were much more practical.