Electone
Electone (Japanese エ レ ク ト ー ン) is the brand name of an electronic organ made by the Japanese musical instrument manufacturer Yamaha . It has two rows of buttons with function buttons above them, as well as a row of pedals. There are also two "expression pedals" (エ ク ス プ レ ッ シ ョ ン ペ ダ ル) that adjust volume and interval , among other things . The sound is output via an electrical output.
history
The Japanese company Nippon Gakki had been making organs since 1887. However, it had no experience with the sound generation by transistors , which had come into use in the USA in the 1930s by electro-mechanical organs such as the Hammond organ . In 1952, Genichi Kawakami (川 上 源 一), then head of the company renamed Yamaha in 1987 , sent engineers to the USA to familiarize themselves with transistor technology.
The first result of these efforts came on the market in 1959 as the D1 and cost about US $ 3,400. The product range in 2018 ranges from the cheapest model ELB-02 to the top model ELS-02X .
In 1975 the GX-1 was created as a development basis for further synthesizers and organs.
While earlier models were delivered as complete systems with different functions, both hardware and software were later modularized in order to reduce the costs of switching to more feature-rich models.
Web links
- Electone Station manufacturer website for Electone (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Electone. Manufacturer's product overview. yamaha.com, accessed March 3, 2019 .
- ^ Electone Museum. Model overview 1959 to 2006. ggmusic.com, accessed on March 3, 2019 .
- ^ Electone Station. yamaha.com, accessed March 4, 2019 .
- ↑ 「 YAMAHA の コ ピ ペ」 っ て ど こ ま で 本 当 な の？ ヤ マ ハ 本社 に 聞 い て き た . In: i: Engineer 〜 だ か ら エ ン ジ ニ ア っ て い い よ ね 〜 . ( persol-tech-s.co.jp [accessed March 10, 2018]).
- ↑ ggbmusic.com: Electone Museum , accessed March 4, 2019.
- ↑ electone.nl/ , accessed on March 4, 2018