We got a reed Lorenzo Chord Organ in the 1970s. It was grey with the legs stored in the lid. It completely broke in the early 90's. Half the reeds were shot, some of the chord keys would stick down and 2 of the legs were broke. Gave us many years of pleasure though.
When I was a kid my mom picked up a similar organ second hand from somebody who gave it away. I was brand name Magnus. It was all plastic and inexpensive but a little better than toy grade. It worked the same, basically like an accordion. It had a keyboard that was about an octave longer and more chord buttons, I think there were 8 of them. It had plenty of wind in the pump to sound clear and strong, the chord reeds responded instantly and it still had plenty of wind to sound clear on almost anything played simultaneously on the keyboard unless you mashed all the keys with your hand sideways, then it would start to run out of wind. The keys were numbered and it came with a play-by-number songbook that had traditional staff music notation with the corresponding key number under each note and the appropriate chord button under the staff, to enable the novice to play songs without reading music.
Well done, one thing the youngsters don't have and that is the tenacious attitude to press on despite what appears to be insurmountable obstacles. That organ was built on a budget, Polystyrene is not an easy material to work with. Best from UK
Where do the keys go back in? "We'll figure it out." You know- it would have been a whole lot easier to just place them in the order you removed them in the first place!
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We got a reed Lorenzo Chord Organ in the 1970s. It was grey with the legs stored in the lid.
It completely broke in the early 90's. Half the reeds were shot, some of the chord keys would stick down and 2 of the legs were broke. Gave us many years of pleasure though.
When I was a kid my mom picked up a similar organ second hand from somebody who gave it away. I was brand name Magnus. It was all plastic and inexpensive but a little better than toy grade. It worked the same, basically like an accordion. It had a keyboard that was about an octave longer and more chord buttons, I think there were 8 of them. It had plenty of wind in the pump to sound clear and strong, the chord reeds responded instantly and it still had plenty of wind to sound clear on almost anything played simultaneously on the keyboard unless you mashed all the keys with your hand sideways, then it would start to run out of wind. The keys were numbered and it came with a play-by-number songbook that had traditional staff music notation with the corresponding key number under each note and the appropriate chord button under the staff, to enable the novice to play songs without reading music.
Well done, one thing the youngsters don't have and that is the tenacious attitude to press on despite what appears to be insurmountable obstacles. That organ was built on a budget, Polystyrene is not an easy material to work with. Best from UK
Where do the keys go back in? "We'll figure it out." You know- it would have been a whole lot easier to just place them in the order you removed them in the first place!