Conn 580 Organ Poinciana, let's face the music and dance, pennies from heaven

trying out my camera and learning how to upload to Youtube.... My playing is very dodgy but if this upload works I'll try harder next time...!!

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[fftopskin1]

hey thanks.... I'm sure I could play a bit better but as soon as that camera was switched on I couldn't think what my name was let alone think what music i should play ;-)

Peter

[AndrewGilbert56]

Nicely played.

580 has a unique sound in the Conn range, I preferred the sound to that of the 650 and 651, though liked the 3x61+32 of the consoles!

I don't find that sound too tibia heavy personally. Yes, hard to avoid them (no Concert Flute) so I don't as a rule! Each to their own on this.

Bit late to tell you Paul, but it's all solid state.

Andy G

[Grosflute]

I've liked the 580 Conn sound better than the 640 series for some reason. Nice job.

[RialtoTwo]

Sounds very nice.

[laxlefty]

Nicely done. However, we had a discussion on the Conn list about using Tibias on the accompaniment. It can be difficult to avoid them, but I see that on Poinciana you have Tibia 8,4 on the Acc., which combines with all the Great Tibia pitches to produce a Tib-heavy sound, especially with the trems maxed out. Try removing the 4' from the Acc. Add Trumpet if you need more left-hand sound. That's my suggestion. -Gary

[StarTrekSarah1701]

Very well done!!! I enjoyed listening to this! (and I'm also glad to read that I'm not the only one who suffers from "camera fright" lol) I loved Pennies From Heaven especially! :)

[StuartLou]

NICE- relax!! Slowly. Take four deep breaths and start again. Remember- s-l-o-w-e-r. We love you.

[ptbuzzcut2008]

I practice and practice but don't seem to quite get the theatre styling down correctly.

Very impressed with the vid and the playing

[davdee103]

well played -nice model of the conn organ range

[paulj0557]

Is this really a vacuum tube organ in 1972? The Organ List put's it in the VI category for tone generation. I'm looking at a 550 and a 553 Trinidad. The 550 is tube tone generators and the Trinidad is transistor. The 550 is $50 and so is the 553 Trinidad. The Trinidad is in a straight cabinet ( similar to the Wurlitzer 4500) instead of the typical theater style cabinet like you see ( ie. Adrian Rose Trinidad), but it does have identical controls.