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Organs
Acoustic, electric, and electronic organs and organ model families.
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Korg CX-3
Organ · Japan
A single-manual clonewheel organ from Korg with nine drawbars, designed to recreate the sound of an electromechanical tonewheel organ and rotary speaker. Introduced in 1979 as a compact alternative to heavy console organs, it was reissued in 2001 as an all-digital instrument using Korg's REMS modeling with a 61-note waterfall keyboard.
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Welson President
Italy
A transistor combo organ made by the Italian company Welson, part of its range of portable organs produced after the company shifted from guitars and accordions to electronic keyboards in the early 1970s.
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Viscount Legend
Organ · Italy
Viscount's Legend line of portable clonewheel organs, designed in Italy with KeyB, using Tonewheel Modeling Technology (TMT) to recreate classic electromechanical organ tone including crosstalk, tonewheel flutter, electrical hum, and octave tapers. The flagship dual-manual Legend carries two 61-note waterfall keyboards with two sets of nine drawbars per manual plus pedal drawbars, and the line spans dual-manual and single-manual stage configurations.
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Welson Mercury
Italy
A portable transistor combo organ made by the Italian maker Welson of Castelfidardo, one of several Welson organ models (alongside the President and others) from the company's electronic-keyboard era.
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Roland V-Combo
Organ · Japan
A family of portable stage keyboards from Roland built around a Virtual Tone Wheel organ engine with nine harmonic bars, combined with electric/acoustic piano and synthesizer engines. The line targets gigging organ and keyboard players who want classic drawbar organ tone in a lightweight instrument.
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Hammond XK-1c
Organ · United States
A compact single-manual portable organ from Hammond with a 61-note waterfall keyboard and nine real drawbars. It reproduces classic tonewheel tone using VASE III digital tonewheel modeling with 96 virtual tonewheels, and adds Vox- and Farfisa-style combo voices, classical pipe voices, and a digital Leslie rotary emulation in a roughly 16-pound chassis.
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Farfisa Compact
Organ · Italy
A portable transistor combo organ built by the Italian maker Farfisa in the mid-1960s, recognizable by its grey case, tilting legs, and rocker-tab voice selectors. Its reedy, buzzy tone was a hallmark of 1960s and 1970s rock and pop.
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Rodgers Imagine Series
Organ · United States
Rodgers' Imagine Series of digital and pipe/digital hybrid organs, built around the American pipe organ sound and drawing on Rodgers' decades of organ-building experience. The series serves churches and homes seeking authentic classical organ tone with modern digital control.
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Hammond XK
Organ · United States
Hammond's line of single-manual portable drawbar organs that digitally recreate the classic tonewheel generator. XK models pair waterfall keyboards with full sets of harmonic drawbars and digital Leslie emulation, giving stage players vintage Hammond tone in a lightweight instrument.
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Crumar Mojo
Organ · Italy
A drawbar organ from the Italian maker Crumar built around physical drawbars and tonewheel modeling, offered in dual-manual and single-manual versions. It also includes electric-piano and other vintage keyboard voices.
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Crumar Mojo 61
Organ · Italy
A single-manual drawbar organ from Crumar with a 61-note waterfall keyboard, built on the GSi VB3-II physical modeling engine. It offers 22 vintage tonewheel organ models with physical drawbars, plus a modeled Baroque pipe organ, Italian and British transistor combo organs, and electric piano voices, with onboard Leslie, chorus, phaser, and amp modeling effects.
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Hammond SKX Pro
Organ · United States
The dual-manual member of Hammond's SK line, with two 61-note waterfall keyboards driving four independent sound engines: the modeled tonewheel (MTW1) organ with three sets of drawbars, transistor combo and classical/theatre pipe organ voices, grand piano samples, and a modeling synthesizer, plus a built-in digital Leslie and 11-pin Leslie connection.
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Makers
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Allen Organ Company
Allen Organ Company is an American maker of digital church, home, and theatre organs founded in 1937 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with its factory in Macungie. Founded by Jerome Markowitz, Allen marketed the world's first commercial digital organ in 1971 and remains family-managed, building classical organs that emulate large pipe-organ stop lists.
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Farfisa
Farfisa is an Italian maker of electronic instruments based in Osimo, founded in 1946 and known for its combo organs widely used in 1960s rock and pop.
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Johannus
Johannus Orgelbouw is a Dutch maker of digital organs for home and church use, based in Ede, Netherlands. Founded in 1968 by Johannes (Hans) Versteegt, the company adopted real-time digital sampling in the late 1980s and exports classical digital organs to more than 100 countries.
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Clavia
Clavia is a Swedish maker of electronic instruments founded in 1983, best known for its red Nord synthesizers, stage pianos, and digital organs.
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Rodgers Instruments
Rodgers Instruments is an American maker of digital and pipe/digital hybrid church and home organs, founded in 1958 in Beaverton, Oregon and headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon. Rodgers built the world's first all-transistor organ in the early 1960s and introduced its first digital organ in 1990 using its Parallel Digital Imaging tone generation.
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Viscount
Viscount is an Italian maker of classical, liturgical, and electronic organs based in Mondaino, known for digital church organs and the Legend series of portable drawbar organs.
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Wersi
Wersi is a German maker of electronic home and stage organs and keyboards, founded in 1969 by brothers Wilhelm-Erich and Reinhard Franz in Rhineland-Palatinate. Famous in the 1970s for organs often sold as build-it-yourself kits, Wersi today builds computer-based entertainment organs running its Open Art System (OAS) and successor OAX platform.
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Hammond
Hammond is an American maker founded in 1928, known for the electromechanical tonewheel organ, especially the B-3, and its association with the Leslie rotating speaker.
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Korg
Korg is a Japanese maker of electronic musical instruments founded in 1963, producing synthesizers, keyboards, drum machines, tuners, and effects.
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Crumar
Crumar is an Italian maker of electronic keyboards founded in the 1970s, known historically for affordable electric pianos and string synthesizers and today for the Mojo line of drawbar organs.
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Gulbransen
Gulbransen was an American maker of pianos and home and theatre organs, established in 1904 in Chicago by Axel Gulbransen. After early fame for player pianos, the company became a leader in electronic home organs, introducing what it billed as the world's first all-transistor organ in 1957 and a series of home and theatre organ innovations through the 1960s.
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Vox
Vox is a British musical-equipment brand established in the late 1950s, best known for the AC30 guitar amplifier and the Continental combo organ widely used in 1960s pop and rock. The brand is now part of Korg.
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Keyboard Instruments
Instruments organized around keyboard interfaces, including pianos and keyboard synthesizers.