Frank Renaut at the Lowrey Organ ,Citation Theater - Leslie Multirank system 102 &103

Frank Renaut logged 1,000,000 miles flying around demonstrating organs for Lowrey. He must have stopped in Columbus Ohio because this is an autographed copy. On this particular day I bought 10 organ records for $1.99 at the local Goodwill store. SCORE! It's 7:03am eastern December 29th 2011and Ethel Smith is playing Tico Tico on TCM as I write this. Frank this is for you:-)

[ Note: The Leslie Multirank system used a unique mechanical scanning system to randomize the phasing of the organ sound, of course this a general explanation. The complete system also used a two channel Isomonic system to separate the 4th & 5th intervals in the mixing and speaker. Not sure if Lowrey used it in that way, but Gulbransen did on The Rialto and the Rialto II. I own a Rialto II and a 705 Leslie w/ 2 Leslie 540's set up isomonic. Of course the tibia is sent exclusively through the rotating Leslie rotosonic drum- instead of a stable speaker w/ a drum rotating below swirling sound the theater organs ( ETO's) sound better with the actual speaker (a 6x9") mounted in the drum rotating. This is how the Hammond R-182 and the 1981' Hammond Elegante are set up- w/ internal rotosonic drums.]

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[Riskteven]

Track list/playlist????

[paulj0557]

@Riskteven Too much typing, and like I said the video of the entire record sleeve got misplaced on my computer...it was late last night and not only that I Audacity didn't recognized my upload of side two so I was going to put the all the info on side 2 today. Oddly when I put the music on the Windows movie maker it was the entire album anyway. Most of the titles are not standards. Frank did everything in one take,, no overdubs at all!

[patsaxon]

Too bad that there is no information about the Lowrey organ or a photo of it? I am confused about the word "Multi rank Leslie", as muilti rank generally refers to theater pipe organs.

[paulj0557]

@patsaxon I made a video of the back of the record but got lost on my computer somehow...Maybe I'll upload a song from this record and put a few snapshots.

The Multirank looks just like regular Leslies...I'll take pictures of my manual of of the Leslie 102 and 103 that fully explains them plus there are pictures and schematics if anyone is interstested I'll upload them to photpobucket and you can just send me a person message and I'll send you the link. BTW These are the 4-channelTUBE

[HD7100]

The Leslie you are refering to is a model 103. It was an electrical/mechanical nightmare but it worked very-very well. I had owned several in years past. I am anxious to hear your Rialto II. Are you ready to make a recording? The Lowrey organ wasn't a bad sound. I knew someone who giged with one of the later Lowrey spinet models that had some synth voices on it. I subed for him one night and found the instrument to be quite nice with lush sounding strings.