Kimball Electramatic Player Organ - Jig Fugue

[paulj0557]

Kimball engineers did a remarkable job on the mechanics sure, but as an organist I can appreciate the special care that these guys put into the tone generators on early transistor organs. If you listen to all of the transistorized organs of the 60's you soon realize that these aren't thin sounding or limited by any means. The transistor opened doors for engineers to finally be able to add as many voices as needed to make an organ sound it's best. Kimball, Conn, Gulbransen & Wurlitzer are great!

[robertgift]

How fun!

Would be nice to hear the notes more clealy.

Tyr again with some higher stops added so that we can hear detail.

Does the roll also play the foot pedals?

Thank you.

[jklingeroo77]

Unfortunately most of the stops on the organ are 8' with a few 16' and ONE 4'. The stops activated here are 16" Pedal, 8' Diapason and 8' Reed in Accomp, and 16',8',4' Tibia in Solo. The roll wasn't made for this particular organ so it doesn't play very far up the keyboard to pull out the higher pitches. If I would have added the other stops (8' String, 16' Sax, 8' Oboe, etc) it would've only made the sound louder and more 'transistorized'. It's only the cheap model Kimball :)

[robertgift]

Thanks.

Still, it is fun.

Can it play trills?

I noticed that none are heard here.

But maybe the roll does not have them.

But it does do the grace notes!

The finest recording of this joyous work can be heard by copying and pasting this in the YouTube search box:

watch?v=IH10P42aaGY&feature=re­lated

[robertgift]

Well,

watch?v=IH10P42aaGY&feature=re­lated,

did not work.

Thought it worked on another occasion.

Paste: E. Power Biggs

and find Jig Fugue.

Thank you.

[jklingeroo77]

It'll play anything that's cleanly punched into the paper, esp trills. It will actually play them as fast as the paper can handle. Also, to answer your previous question, yes it does play the pedals but not manually like you see with the keys. There is a small set of pneumatically operated pedal contacts inside the organ that are played by the roll. The pedals themselves would be too difficult to move pneumatically - too strong a spring.

[joe22twentytoo]

wow, whats the specs of the organ

[B5guy]

When you see this organ playing you can imagine the skill it takes to play this song, wonderful.

[lasalleman]

Haven't seen one of those in years!

[mooghammondb3]

Creepy.