Listen to it all the way... pretty darn good.. AND I really think a arranger with lower and pedals can do exactly the same. (yes the setup will take some work)
I worked for them for years along with your cousin Dennis. Also, had my own full line music store in Wisconsin until the recession of 1982, I think it was, when most piano/organ stores had to close in that area.
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I used to love to go into the organ stores, mess around with new models, hear the demos by the great players at the store...Thomas, and Yamaha were the ones I liked back then. Oh I did have a Conn Prelude as my first organ, Ha, Ha...
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I used to love going into organ stores too. I was just a kid in the '70s and early '80s. Usually the sales help would lose patience after a while and shoo me out. But I'm pretty sure the fascination inspired by those organs is why I'm an arranger enthusiast today!
Todays home organs are a huge thing, both Wersi and Bohm have technollogy beyound what todays top arrangers offer.. Sadly the content and the price is holding them back.. They are also missing some features i love on my Genos..
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Yamaha Genos, Roland Jupiter 80, Ipad pro.
I worked for Fletcher's in Florida as a demo/ concert artist Ifrom 94 to 2004 . That large organ that she is playing (LX model celebration or above) ,there is one in Columbus Ohio that is in new shape for 300.00 dollars. If I had room I would get it and also a b3 I've had my eye on. It was a profitable era. But that generation is gone and OUR organs are the genos,pa,psr, . Unless you're a tony Monaco ,jimmy smith , type player there's not much call for the organ. Although I love to hear a good jazz organ trio.
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Bachus, so you weren't impressed by Marco's playing and the Yamaha D-Deck? I sure am...Still, like the organs you mentioned not available in US but could get one through Taros trading who will import you one from Japan.
D-Deck is actually getting old, but a Genos with lower and pedals would do as well or better!
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This post inspired my other post about using pedals to control the bassline.
Bachus is right, these Yamaha Japan organs have a different feature set with some important features missing. I downloaded manuals for the D-Deck and the Electone EL-C. As best as I could tell, neither one has the "AI Fingered" chord recognition mode that appeared on these shores with the first Tyros.
Recall that the intent of AI Fingered was to give a player more control over the Bass (with simplified fingering and within a compact split of C1 to G2.) Perhaps Yamaha assumes that with two manuals and bass pedals, players would have no need of that mode.
Interestingly... if I plug a pedalboard into my Tyros and configure the MIDI properly, it works just like an old school Electone's Auto Bass Chord. Pressing a pedal will usurp control of the arranger bass. However, the bass reverts to the root of a played chord when no pedal is pressed. A tidy implementation!
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Ted, Yes, with the organs from Japan they expect the lower and pedals to do the job needed. WOW if you watch some of the performances on the D-Deck and ELS-01C unbelievable talent and great organs....plenty of capability compared to tens of thousands for the other ones...I got a quote a while back for $7,500 for D-Deck...not much more than a Genos... BUT a Genos with lower and pedals I think would be better.
I have the SX-900 now (Genos later) and I am going to do it. Lee