Organs · Makers

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Allen Organ Company

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Roland

Models: 70 · Categories: 10

Roland is a Japanese maker of electronic musical instruments, including synthesizers, drum machines such as the TR-808, and the JC-120 Jazz Chorus, a benchmark solid-state guitar amplifier known for its built-in stereo chorus and produced since 1975.
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Ace Tone

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Ace Tone was a Japanese maker of electronic musical instruments founded in 1960 in Osaka by Ikutaro Kakehashi, who later founded Roland. Ace Tone is best known for its portable transistor combo organs and early rhythm machines, and is regarded as a direct forerunner of Roland.