Lowrey organ

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A Lowrey organ

The Lowrey Organ is an electronic organ named after its inventor, the Chicago industrialist Frederick Lowrey .

During the 1960s and 1970s, Lowrey was the world's largest manufacturer of electronic organs. In 1989 the Lowrey Organ Company produced its one millionth organ. Until 2011, the Lowrey organs were produced in LaGrange Park , Illinois; In 2011 it was announced that production would be relocated to Malaysia.

The main difference between the Lowrey organ and the Hammond organ is the use of automatic accompaniment functions. Although originally intended for home entertainment, it was used by some rock bands in the 1960s and 1970s . Garth Hudson , the keyboardist and organist for The Band , played a Lowrey organ on many of the group's songs. In the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! it is used by the Beatles to create a fair atmosphere. A somewhat surprising insert had a Lowrey organ in the song Baba O'Riley by The Who ; The recording begins with a 41-second loop that was played on a Lowrey organ and the sound was modified by a synthesizer . Mike Ratledge of the band Soft Machine used a Lowrey Holiday Deluxe instead of a Vox Continental at times . He played it with Fuzzbox and a Marshall Amplification amplifier . The German electric organ organist Klaus Wunderlich also used a Lowrey organ, the model H 25-3, in his record series "Wunderlich Pops".

Web links

Commons : Lowrey Organ  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Homepage on lowrey.com (English)
  • Homepage on lowrey-deutschland.de
  • Homepage Lowrey (in German) for Austria / South Tyrol / Hungary

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History of trade name . Musical Instrument Technicians Association. 2007. Archived from the original on July 4, 2007. Retrieved July 27, 2009.
  2. ↑ Music Trades . July 1, 1989. Archived from the original on September 3, 2009. Retrieved September 5, 2013. 
  3. ↑ Bob Doerschuk: Garth Hudson: Legendary organist with '60s supergroup' The Band ' . In: Keyboard Magazine . September.
  4. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Beatles Recording Sessions . Harmony Books, New York 1988.
  5. ↑ Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ: Baba O'Riley / Won't Get Fooled Again 'synthesizer' sound . In: Whotabs . August 27, 2005. Retrieved September 14, 2010.