RARE Peavey Combo organ ! (Teisco dual manual mystery!)

Bob Weigel (http://www.sounddoctorin.com) and Paul Haugen detail and demonstrate possibly the rarest machine we've encountered to date. Possibly a prototype. The techs at Peavey are completely unaware that any such thing ever existed. Of course this would have been from the very early days of the company.

With the knobs that strongly resemble some used on early peavey amps, and the fact that it departs from the cosmetics of other Teisco's (which obviously was the manufacturer), the lack of a schematic diagram inside and only some japanese print on the right of the keyboard frame aside from the peavey label on the back, would tend to lead us to think that this was made by Teisco for Peavey. In their early days I'm sure they probably considered marketing some keyboard products from Teisco and this was a prototype possibly constructed for that purpose. Nobody has seen one. No hits on search engine. Nothing. Yet I have this strange memory of seeing one of these possibly as a child. Something looked familiar about it. I...don't....know.

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[paulj0557]

Is it full of 4558's? It's Peavey! (LOL)

[sounddoctorin]

@paulj0557 nope. Like I said in the thing somewhere I think, it looks like it's Teisco construction. Peavey never lifted a finger I'm guessing with regard to this one and the story we got from someone was that their Father I think had worked for Peavey and tried to swing some deal to get this things produced by them but it didn't go well. Comment above I can't figure out so...to avoid confusion I'll clip it :-) Let me know via mail.

[mewrth]

Very interesting one-off. It sounds like a Gibson-esque upper manual with a GEM/Farfisa-esque lower manual with no bass section. Have you seen any dates on the capacitors? As always, keep 'em coming! You guys are the biggest combonuts on YT.

[sounddoctorin]

@mewrth Yeah that's a pretty good description I guess. The caps...I don't know how to read date codes..the only thing I see other than value/mfg related is CE(W) or CE02(W) on an Elna cap. The others are mostly mitsubishi I think..

[sounddoctorin]

@mewrth PS I should say that the date on the unit is no doubt within a year of the TEISCHORD B that I also did a vid on; the one that has coils.rather than trim pots for oscillator tuning.

[mooginable]

Amazing find!! Sure sounds like a Teisco