This is best organ that Hammond Suzuki has produced! I like having both a drawbar keyboard and synthesizer all in one keyboard. The acoustic piano is very good digital quality and both the SK-1 and SK-2 are very affordable to compared to any Hammond Suzuki product. I recommend both the SK-1 and Sk-1!
You are so right! I use the Sk2 with a custom made, lightweight (approxim. 22 lbs!) 25-note bass pedal (B3/C3/A100...dimensions) for regular Jazz-organ trio concerts and the Sk1 for other performances. T.C.
@b356014 ( I removed comment because I had a grammer error and lost it! AHH!!!)
I'll try to remember.
If anyone has hacked into SK you'll see you can or can't add 9 contacts. Sure warranties...okay, but if/when you can...
If each voice has it's own output for each tone (some how) then adding 9 contacts will be easy using a programed bit stamp w/ fiber optic at each key using a make/break- see/no see strip ( bk/wh/bk/wh etc.). Once a key is pressed it's in ON state & logic places it's position.EZ
@Doodlinlounge Thank you so much Pete! The Sk2 is great help in many different ways. The factory sounds are great, but I did a lot of fine-tunings to get my personal sound. After 35 years B3 only, everything is new and at the beginning I was afraid. But now I like it very much! The Sk2 is much more than a cheap and lightweight replacement: it´s the beginning of a new era for Hammond and for me.
I do my thing at the B3 since 35 years now. This 30 super lightweight is so much powerful and fantastic sounding. For approxim. $ 2.900.00 you get a superb B3 sound, Farf, Vx, extra voices and a pipe organ section. 9 contacts would make it heavy and expensive. I don´t miss the 9 contacts. After hours of "fine tuning" I got my personal sound. Listen: amazing! C3 vibrato is totally close to the original scanner vibrato and the adjustable Leslie-simulation is also great.
@b356014 Point well taken. I'm one of those players that has always been critical of design. It's not so much snobbery as finding out the hard way, by how it sounds when I play it. I actually play an Elegante (81') because I like the orchestral voices and have never found an X-66. So right there I had to compromise a lot, including the single contact keys & no TW's, but you do get used to it. Surprisingly the Hammond sound is in there if you try.
9 contacts would be easy to add SK2, it's digital
Well, the Elegante, Collonade... were designed for traditional home players. I was travelling with the B3 console for many many years and believe me I had a lot of strange situations reg. transportation, specially when nobody was available to carry it over steps or.....at 3 a.m or so. In the 1970´s some organists carried X-66´s with Leslies around. The Sk2 & Sk1 was long awaited by many, many travelling organists all over the world: lightweight, cheap but first of all: super sound!
This is best organ that Hammond Suzuki has produced! I like having both a drawbar keyboard and synthesizer all in one keyboard. The acoustic piano is very good digital quality and both the SK-1 and SK-2 are very affordable to compared to any Hammond Suzuki product. I recommend both the SK-1 and Sk-1!
patsaxon 1 month ago
@patsaxon
You are so right! I use the Sk2 with a custom made, lightweight (approxim. 22 lbs!) 25-note bass pedal (B3/C3/A100...dimensions) for regular Jazz-organ trio concerts and the Sk1 for other performances. T.C.
b356014 1 month ago
@b356014 ( I removed comment because I had a grammer error and lost it! AHH!!!)
I'll try to remember.
If anyone has hacked into SK you'll see you can or can't add 9 contacts. Sure warranties...okay, but if/when you can...
If each voice has it's own output for each tone (some how) then adding 9 contacts will be easy using a programed bit stamp w/ fiber optic at each key using a make/break- see/no see strip ( bk/wh/bk/wh etc.). Once a key is pressed it's in ON state & logic places it's position.EZ
paulj0557 1 month ago
I am sure that you are nice player. I have the hammond,too in japan. see you.
ysuzuki1773 1 month ago
TC ! You look great and you sound even better!!! Keep swinging
Doodlinlounge 1 month ago
@Doodlinlounge Thank you so much Pete! The Sk2 is great help in many different ways. The factory sounds are great, but I did a lot of fine-tunings to get my personal sound. After 35 years B3 only, everything is new and at the beginning I was afraid. But now I like it very much! The Sk2 is much more than a cheap and lightweight replacement: it´s the beginning of a new era for Hammond and for me.
b356014 1 month ago
Are there 9 contacts per key? If not, why not? If not it must suck.
paulj0557 1 month ago
I do my thing at the B3 since 35 years now. This 30 super lightweight is so much powerful and fantastic sounding. For approxim. $ 2.900.00 you get a superb B3 sound, Farf, Vx, extra voices and a pipe organ section. 9 contacts would make it heavy and expensive. I don´t miss the 9 contacts. After hours of "fine tuning" I got my personal sound. Listen: amazing! C3 vibrato is totally close to the original scanner vibrato and the adjustable Leslie-simulation is also great.
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b356014 1 month ago
@b356014 Point well taken. I'm one of those players that has always been critical of design. It's not so much snobbery as finding out the hard way, by how it sounds when I play it. I actually play an Elegante (81') because I like the orchestral voices and have never found an X-66. So right there I had to compromise a lot, including the single contact keys & no TW's, but you do get used to it. Surprisingly the Hammond sound is in there if you try.
9 contacts would be easy to add SK2, it's digital
paulj0557 1 month ago
Well, the Elegante, Collonade... were designed for traditional home players. I was travelling with the B3 console for many many years and believe me I had a lot of strange situations reg. transportation, specially when nobody was available to carry it over steps or.....at 3 a.m or so. In the 1970´s some organists carried X-66´s with Leslies around. The Sk2 & Sk1 was long awaited by many, many travelling organists all over the world: lightweight, cheap but first of all: super sound!
b356014 1 month ago