Recently my grandmas Conn 628 Rhapsody was moved to my house. It still has its beautiful sound although the reverb one and two don’t function anymore. Digital organs can never really get the same sound an old Conn can. Which is why they are so special
A BRILLIANT demo!! You are an exceptional young man with a great appreciation of older technology. What’s even more impressive is the fact that you are an accomplished organist and musician and throughly understand how this specific organ works - probably better than the sales personnel did back in the 70s when these instruments were actually en vogue. Again a BRILLIANT demo ... thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and talent! 👍👍
I repaired organs in the 80s and really appreciated the sounds of Conn organs. I was a decent pianist but never reached the skill level on organ of this young man. Would love to hear a performance from him.
Hello... I have a 1968 Baldwin Theater HR series console..32 pedal...horse shoe top.....she's been sitting for years....the organ is like new.....how would you suggest I wake her up....thks...BH West Pa.
Nice Demo Richie ... I own a Conn 653 that has a few issues I am trying to fix myself as I cannot find an organ tech in Chicago area to help me. I love the 653 and your 652 is great too. Glad you enjoy the older technology keep up the nice work!
This Conn really sounds great! The reeds are really well done! I was the very happy owner for a number of years owning a 645 DeLuxe (had the pull out toy counter AND the SNARE speaker with 3rd internal amp!). ALL the Conn pipe speakers (every model they made) and two Leslies for theatre voices- NOT for Hammond organs. With multi reverb and a chorus on the pulse wave channel you could do great string celestes etc. Since there was no SQUARE wave generator, there wasn't a Clarinet stop! The 650 had more solid state tone generation and DID have a square wave, so there was a clarinet in the stop list. Thanks !
Nice demo. I am impressed with your playing style, true Theatre Organ. My Dad played Theatre Organ and Church Professionally. I grew up with a 650 in our basement he purchased in 1970, has the small “pipes” Leslie and tremolo cabinet.
Excellent demonstration Richie. You're a fine musician. I was given a horseshoe console that an organ technician owned and worked on as a hobby. The console was an early electronic organ called an Organtron made by the Everett Piano Co. The man had gutted the Orgatron and populated the console with Conn tone generators, preamps, and other devices. In addition to a whole array of Leslies, he had two amplified struck instruments made by Maas Rowe that were played through the organ. It also had an electronic sustenuto he built from scratch. The Conn tone generators sounded great. Sadly, this instrument had over a hundred vacuum tubes and the capacitors were old. Little by little, the organ became unplayable and pops and sizzle sounds were all I got out of it. I ended up parting it out and scrapping what was left.
Nice, Richie. My dad had an older Conn 650 (1?, 2?, don't remember now) when I was a kid. It was full of vacuum tubes and therefore made a lot of heat when he played it. Seemed like the repair people were always there having to work on it, too. Finally traded it in for a new Lowry, and his final one was a Wurlitzer that I donated to a church on his passing.
The tube Conns have a very bold professional tone. Every owner should earn how to tune it. I use a simple and now $8-$10 used KORG CA-30. Its got the ⏪🔴💰🔴⏩ that to make it have a real pipe organ fullness you don't tune every note dead on the money, have some at random be +/- 2 cents ( basically some right or left red LED's lighted up).
I have been playing organs for over 50 years, just about every brand out there and they are all good, but in my opinion, A CONN stands alone at the top of the pack. No other organ sounds like a CONN. I have a CONN 552 and in the past had a CONN 314, and there is no feeling as the feeling you get when you play a CONN. The sound of these organs is absolutely magnificent in the 500 and 600 series especially as CONN was one of the few organs that had Independent Tone Generation for each note of the organ which is why the sound is so rich. The only other organ who used this expensive technology is Allen to my knowledge. But, in my opinion, Conn's will forever be #1. The CONN 653 to my knowledge is not really a CONN, half CONN, and half Kimball, when they were bought out by Kimball which was a huge mistake for the CONN company as quality took a nosedive and very sadly the company failed. But this is a incredible organ. In closing, just let me say, I have played just about every organ brand and do appreciate them for what they are, but A CONN stands alone at the top.
I know exactly what your talking about with the CONN series organs being a top tier brand, my #645 Deluxe Theatre organ is an organ I will forever love deep in my heart, and though I have aquired many, many other organs. I still will forever love my CONN.
@@phildoethedildoe I feel the same. I have a 552. My 552 needs some service and it is so very sad that technicians are getting harder and harder to find
Excellent resume of the many wonderful voices of the Conn. I used to have a Conn Tampico and my friend Bill Moore had a Martinique to which we added extra tone generators speaking through a Compton Melotone horn speaker, several leslies and a full set of pipes. Check out youtube for William Davies playing it in concert!
Oh my goodness!!!! This was so much fun to watch and hear! Thanks for taking the time to demo this fun instrument! Can you tell me about the speaker set up you used on this organ and that incredible room you were in the acoustics seemed pretty amazing .
I believe it was in 1979 when Kimball piano & organ acquired Conn Organ Company, which was known as Conn Contemporary Keyboard. That was when they went to the square preset pistons. Some of the technology was shared with Kimball as Conn was behind on their home organs. I think it was somewhere in the early 1980s, that Kimball closed down Conn. Because the acquision of Conn organ company, Kimball made Conn acoustic pianos. I own a Lowrey Royale, which is limited to classical organ voices, as I miss those stops when wanting to play church music.
Bro I've got an old CONN #645 Deluxe Theatre organ that I love so much! I mean I currently own like 8 different organs but my first beast or true tube organ was ands always will be the 645!
That really is better than the 651. It's tonally superior even though the actual stoplist looks more limited. And the jazz organ option and items about the percussions and the couplers are very neat. My dad had a 643 which anticipated some of the design on this, too, but this is like taking the 643, adding a manual and making it more feature-rich with at least as good a tone (which the 651 just didn't have especially on the Solo.)
Excellent video. I have repaired a few Conn 600 series organs. You know the instrument well and your demo was very thorough. I also like your playing skills. I play pro but when I was your age I was more of a musical butcher in my own opinion. I got better with age LOL. Thanks for the video. Gary
Thanks for the demo Richie ... really informative! I also just watched your performance in the Octoberfest2020 video on the Conn. Just love to hear you play!! Your arrangements and registration choices and tempo are all quite sophisticated for your age ... very impressive for sure. Are you still in college, and studying music? I look forward to hearing more of your videos, and hopefully meeting you some day at a live performance! I surely wish you every success in your career. Tom
Hi Richie, Your marvellous demos on the 652 prove that it is an exceptional sounding organ! I'm concerned that I may not be able to buy the keyer IC chips to keep one going. I'm pretty old and this is on my bucket list. I'd appreciate your advice as to whether to buy a second hand one. I'm a retired electronics tech in Oz and the soldering /maintenance doesn't phase me, I'd appreciate your advice. Thanks Lindsay
Hi Rich! Hopefully we will be popping out a video within the next month of the speaker set up as we are not done with installation. IN this video, It is speaking through a Conn 255 (Leslie cabinet) and a Conn 256 (General speaker cabinet). Once I get back down later this month and finish installation, it will have 3 255 Leslie Cabinets, 1 256 stationary cabinet, and 8 pipe speakers mounted 19 feet in the air. Unfortunately, a lot of Conns are not voiced well. I probably spent over two hours over a period of 3 days adjusting and tweaking amp and pot levels, to get this result. Once it triples in speaker set up, It'll take another couple hours to adjust. :)
It was indeed interesting. I love the sound of the great theater organs, but owning one is not practical for the average person. I was wondering who produces the best electronic theater organs today.
One question I have is the preset pistons. Are they preset at the factory or can you change them? I have a 650 , which has factory and that's the only thing I wished was different. You can unsolder and resolder the jumpers but that's a lot of work. I believe that the 652 came after Kimball took Conn over. And they are famous for connection soldering problems inside. Many have to have hundreds of connections resoldered. One thing people fail to comment is these old organs were great pieces of furniture in a home. Much like a grand piano. I bought my 650 in 1970, at the age of 20, for $7,000. My parents thought I was crazy at the time as the average car was about $3,500. I still have it. The 652's were about $24,000 in their day, in the 1980's, I believe.
Brilliant demonstration! Amazing that there's no clarinet stop. Also interesting is that on pipe organs, celestes rarely go below T.C., so when the expense of pipework wasn't a problem the celestes on electronic organs wasn't an issue, they still stopped at T.C.! Also it's such a shame you didn't demonstrate how it sounds without the tremulants & using relevant registration to attempt to recreate a "church" organ sound!
You have chords on the diapason, strings with unison, and full organ- all with no trems. That’s all it does well. Other than that, nothing worth noting besides maybe the flutes with Jazz voicing and no trems which provides a classical (esque)sound.
Are you by chance related to Vern Gregory, former owner of the Avenue Theatre (70’s) in South San Francisco? I believe his pipe organ is in Florida somewhere now??
Very well played Rich- very "George Wright-ish" in style and registration but hey nothing wrong with paying Tribute to the Great Man; just gotta ensure a White Console is sourced if YOUR album will be recorded in a location which has a Black and White tiled floor !! hee...hee. Seriously though you should consider doing a contemporary style album for Digital Download release on that Conn 652- cos the audio quality just on this RUclips video alone already sounds really kewl. As you mentioned you guys have some external spkrs connected with some pipes etc, but you ALSO have it all quite well miked so I think, if I may share an observation here, with a bit of "edge smoothing" re: Registration setups/ changes & indiv' voice volume balancing etc you'd knock together a ripper album. A bit of Ed Sheeran, bit of Adele etc for the masses, a few standards, bit of George Wright aye :) The audio quality thru a Smartphone using some of the DSP Audio Processing found on phones today or a nice home a/v system with a sub and for those who have an Atmos spec' receiver/amplifier surround system I recommend playing these ACME videos with the Atmos actually OFF and instead the DTS Neural-X ON !! If there AINT DTS Neural-X then running "Dolby Digital Surround Enhancer" on will still sound so SWEET ! Everyone will be out next morning looking for their nearest "Conn Organ Lodge" to buy a Conn with YOU as the ubiquitous "But WAIT, THERE'S MORE- the first 50 Conn 652's sold today include a FREE GIFT WITH PURCHASE- YES, YOUR VERY OWN RICHIE" !! Seriously Richie, this demo is smashingly good mate. True, nothing really on RUclips ref Conn to any great degree - partic' a well recorded voicing/effects demo, as the Martinique, Caribe/Trinidad, Theatrette series ie 3 manual 580 and ANY of the 65x series don't normally sit on used organ sales sites for very long...well there's been a bit of a slowdown during this Covid Virus period. But Importantly Richie, jolly well done & respectfully best wishes, Laurie in Oztraya. ( organ sales manager ; mid 70's - mid 80's. )
Hello 👋 yes so much has been lost on modern board’s etc , I listen to certain so called top key boards these days = they just ain’t got it 🤷♂️ 😃 in fact - (no offence to some people, ) some sound awful 🤷♂️ = so I’ll sit at my Hammond organs & carry on 😣👍✅ cheers & thanks to you 🌈
without doubt, a beautifully voiced instrument. However, I suspect that there is still a cart load of digital LSL crap inside not least, for the keying and control - a shame as this will finally be the end of this fine organ.
The gold rods to key the audio in those older models was a great idea in the day but break down over time UGH!!! TOo bad CONN never MIDI'ed their line..but realize they were out of the biz by the time MIDI was in vogue...especially before an accepted standard. I've had a variety of CONN's and today they are often 'come and get it!' Indeed they are analog tone generation. CONN claimed 'digital' but this was a sales gimmic...ONLY their multiplex keying was digital. NOT the tone generation which made ALLEN the distinguishing start of the digital organ. THe 653 was a Kimball contrivance really. The 652 was the last of the CONN's as I recall. Interesting to note: CONN declared bankruptcy in '69...yet the CONN 650 was still being made. I had no idea back then. A publishing company bought conn and later sold to some other firm. Pipe speakers....cute! Nice job Greogry!
@@keithcitizen4855 Hi Keith The gold rods have a conductive coating that simply degenerates. The mains whose audio is keyed by these sound weak ..just poor contact. Not good and very hard to repair.
@@Organplayer1947 that sounds like audio signals being switched at the pedals - has anyone designed a retofit relay board with IC 's that pass audio signals through with Nano amp gates so the less than fully conductive contact bars could still be used , probably a silly idea of mine.
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On the 52, the pedal division will only play 2 notes simultaneously- the highest note and the lowest note being played. If you couple the accompaniment or solo down, you can play as many notes via pedal as you want in those divisions, but the pedal division still only plays lowest and highest. .
@@pipeorganest Oh that's too bad... the 651, I think, was fully polyphonic on the pedals. That was the model George Wright had for his last Conn demo LP, unless he did another one that I'm not aware of. My dad's 643 was similar to the 51's on pedal -- one note from 16' Pedal stops in the lower octave, one in the higher octave, and the 8' Tibia and coupled stops from Accompaniment were completely poly.
You could on the 643 "trick" the pedals into giving you a nice 32' resultant by playing notes with a 16' stop like the Diaphone or Bourdon from G2 (piano terms) with a fourth up through B2, and then F2 with fifths up to complete the octave.
Octave 2 on piano, for those unfamiliar, means the same octave as the lowest one on organ keyboards including Pedal. The third octave on console organ manuals is the same as Octave 4 on a piano, both start with middle C. So when I say G2, it means G in the lowest organ clavier octave.
I had been playing Conn organ youtube videos all night while doing other things, not watching, just listening. I came back to the computer and had a quick scroll through the comments, came across yours. I thought " Why would someone make a disparaging comment about someones personal appearance?". I scrolled back to the top and actually had a look at the guy doing the demo. WTF !! Whoa dude, what sort of weird -arse hair style is that ?!!! He does a great job of the demo, but man, what is going on with that fucking hair ?? I just looked at some of his other videos and his hair is normal. So is his head. Why on earth would he choose to go with a Marge Simpson hairdo in this video?? Bizarre !! Hopefully not some new fashion trend, please no, not after the goddam ugly man-bun. eewwwwww
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Theater organ brings out the bests in everyone including myself
Theater organ brings out the best in everyone including myself
Recently my grandmas Conn 628 Rhapsody was moved to my house. It still has its beautiful sound although the reverb one and two don’t function anymore. Digital organs can never really get the same sound an old Conn can. Which is why they are so special
Excellent! Thank you for providing this post
A BRILLIANT demo!! You are an exceptional young man with a great appreciation of older technology. What’s even more impressive is the fact that you are an accomplished organist and musician and throughly understand how this specific organ works - probably better than the sales personnel did back in the 70s when these instruments were actually en vogue. Again a BRILLIANT demo ... thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and talent! 👍👍
It's nice to see Timothy's name and photo on the wall.
This is exactly what I've been searching for years!
Thank you so much. It's sounds so good. A dream organ... Conn is wonderful. Please post more.
I repaired organs in the 80s and really appreciated the sounds of Conn organs. I was a decent pianist but never reached the skill level on organ of this young man. Would love to hear a performance from him.
Hello... I have a 1968 Baldwin Theater HR series console..32 pedal...horse shoe top.....she's been sitting for years....the organ is like new.....how would you suggest I wake her up....thks...BH West Pa.
Had a Conn 628 (I think it was) way back in the late '60's. It was nice.
Richie, you are brilliant! A great showman!
Nice Demo Richie ... I own a Conn 653 that has a few issues I am trying to fix myself as I cannot find an organ tech in Chicago area to help me. I love the 653 and your 652 is great too. Glad you enjoy the older technology keep up the nice work!
Very nice demo. And yes it sounds better than my 651. However, since it was free, I cannot complain about mine at all. 👍🏼😄
Awesome demo of this vintage treasure, thank you, sir!
This Conn really sounds great! The reeds are really well done!
I was the very happy owner for a number of years owning a 645 DeLuxe (had the pull out toy counter AND the SNARE speaker with 3rd internal amp!). ALL the Conn pipe speakers (every model they made) and two Leslies for theatre voices- NOT for Hammond organs.
With multi reverb and a chorus on the pulse wave channel you could do great string celestes etc. Since there was no SQUARE wave generator, there wasn't a Clarinet stop! The 650 had more solid state tone generation and DID have a square wave, so there was a clarinet in the stop list. Thanks !
Nice demo.
I am impressed with your playing style, true Theatre Organ. My Dad played Theatre Organ and Church Professionally.
I grew up with a 650 in our basement he purchased in 1970, has the small “pipes” Leslie and tremolo cabinet.
First video I've seen of yours , am very impressed -
what a magnificent golden-age specimen.
Excellent demonstration Richie. You're a fine musician. I was given a horseshoe console that an organ technician owned and worked on as a hobby. The console was an early electronic organ called an Organtron made by the Everett Piano Co. The man had gutted the Orgatron and populated the console with Conn tone generators, preamps, and other devices. In addition to a whole array of Leslies, he had two amplified struck instruments made by Maas Rowe that were played through the organ. It also had an electronic sustenuto he built from scratch. The Conn tone generators sounded great. Sadly, this instrument had over a hundred vacuum tubes and the capacitors were old. Little by little, the organ became unplayable and pops and sizzle sounds were all I got out of it. I ended up parting it out and scrapping what was left.
What a superb demo! Many thanks
The Conn Artiste was the best name for an electronic. I too studied on a Conn Artiste, in the 1960s and that was a nice instrument.
Very nice demonstration! I wasn't aware that this Conn organ sounded that good with analog and not sampled.
Nice, Richie. My dad had an older Conn 650 (1?, 2?, don't remember now) when I was a kid. It was full of vacuum tubes and therefore made a lot of heat when he played it. Seemed like the repair people were always there having to work on it, too. Finally traded it in for a new Lowry, and his final one was a Wurlitzer that I donated to a church on his passing.
The tube Conns have a very bold professional tone. Every owner should earn how to tune it. I use a simple and now $8-$10 used KORG CA-30. Its got the ⏪🔴💰🔴⏩
that to make it have a real pipe organ fullness you don't tune every note dead on the money, have some at random be +/- 2 cents ( basically some right or left red LED's lighted up).
Great video!!!
7:27 thank you for that. I need that this morning!!! LOLOLOLOL
Quite a nice sound of the Conn organ
I have been playing organs for over 50 years, just about every brand out there and they are all good, but in my opinion, A CONN stands alone at the top of the pack. No other organ sounds like a CONN. I have a CONN 552 and in the past had a CONN 314, and there is no feeling as the feeling you get when you play a CONN. The sound of these organs is absolutely magnificent in the 500 and 600 series especially as CONN was one of the few organs that had Independent Tone Generation for each note of the organ which is why the sound is so rich. The only other organ who used this expensive technology is Allen to my knowledge. But, in my opinion, Conn's will forever be #1. The CONN 653 to my knowledge is not really a CONN, half CONN, and half Kimball, when they were bought out by Kimball which was a huge mistake for the CONN company as quality took a nosedive and very sadly the company failed. But this is a incredible organ. In closing, just let me say, I have played just about every organ brand and do appreciate them for what they are, but A CONN stands alone at the top.
I know exactly what your talking about with the CONN series organs being a top tier brand, my #645 Deluxe Theatre organ is an organ I will forever love deep in my heart, and though I have aquired many, many other organs. I still will forever love my CONN.
@@phildoethedildoe I feel the same. I have a 552. My 552 needs some service and it is so very sad that technicians are getting harder and harder to find
Excellent resume of the many wonderful voices of the Conn. I used to have a Conn Tampico and my friend Bill Moore had a Martinique to which we added extra tone generators speaking through a Compton Melotone horn speaker, several leslies and a full set of pipes. Check out youtube for William Davies playing it in concert!
It’s one of my favourite conn videos on youtube!
Oh my goodness!!!! This was so much fun to watch and hear! Thanks for taking the time to demo this fun instrument! Can you tell me about the speaker set up you used on this organ and that incredible room you were in the acoustics seemed pretty amazing .
Thank you for sharing I’m quite a fan
Very thorough. Great job, I enjoyed it very much.
Thanks Richie, you are very accomplished.
Very interesting, and you're a fine player!
I believe it was in 1979 when Kimball piano & organ acquired Conn Organ Company, which was known as Conn Contemporary Keyboard. That was when they went to the square preset pistons. Some of the technology was shared with Kimball as Conn was behind on their home organs. I think it was somewhere in the early 1980s, that Kimball closed down Conn. Because the acquision of Conn organ company, Kimball made Conn acoustic pianos. I own a Lowrey Royale, which is limited to classical organ voices, as I miss those stops when wanting to play church music.
What a great presentation
Bro I've got an old CONN #645 Deluxe Theatre organ that I love so much! I mean I currently own like 8 different organs but my first beast or true tube organ was ands always will be the 645!
That really is better than the 651. It's tonally superior even though the actual stoplist looks more limited. And the jazz organ option and items about the percussions and the couplers are very neat. My dad had a 643 which anticipated some of the design on this, too, but this is like taking the 643, adding a manual and making it more feature-rich with at least as good a tone (which the 651 just didn't have especially on the Solo.)
Thanks so much. I had no idea it was capable of this much. All my best... >
Some very impressive playing. And a very informative go-through of the organ. Still a fine-sounding instrument today.
Excellent video. I have repaired a few Conn 600 series organs. You know the instrument well and your demo was very thorough. I also like your playing skills. I play pro but when I was your age I was more of a musical butcher in my own opinion. I got better with age LOL. Thanks for the video. Gary
this guy is a magican....
very nice vidio,and organ playing,,well done
the reverberant acoustic of that venue makes it sound a LOT like a wurlitzer PO in a large auditorium.
Nicely done!
Thanks for the demo Richie ... really informative! I also just watched your performance in the Octoberfest2020 video on the Conn. Just love to hear you play!! Your arrangements and registration choices and tempo are all quite sophisticated for your age ... very impressive for sure. Are you still in college, and studying music? I look forward to hearing more of your videos, and hopefully meeting you some day at a live performance! I surely wish you every success in your career. Tom
Amazing Richie, Do you tour? Very good demo!
Hi Richie, Your marvellous demos on the 652 prove that it is an exceptional sounding organ! I'm concerned that I may not be able to buy the keyer IC chips to keep one going. I'm pretty old and this is on my bucket list. I'd appreciate your advice as to whether to buy a second hand one. I'm a retired electronics tech in Oz and the soldering /maintenance doesn't phase me, I'd appreciate your advice. Thanks Lindsay
What sound system
Are you running through! Sounds radically better than the ones i have experienced! How is this possible? Thanks Rich
Hi Rich! Hopefully we will be popping out a video within the next month of the speaker set up as we are not done with installation. IN this video, It is speaking through a Conn 255 (Leslie cabinet) and a Conn 256 (General speaker cabinet). Once I get back down later this month and finish installation, it will have 3 255 Leslie Cabinets, 1 256 stationary cabinet, and 8 pipe speakers mounted 19 feet in the air. Unfortunately, a lot of Conns are not voiced well. I probably spent over two hours over a period of 3 days adjusting and tweaking amp and pot levels, to get this result. Once it triples in speaker set up, It'll take another couple hours to adjust. :)
It was indeed interesting. I love the sound of the great theater organs, but owning one is not practical for the average person. I was wondering who produces the best electronic theater organs today.
You are quite the haut boi!
Handsome boyyy
One question I have is the preset pistons. Are they preset at the factory or can you change them? I have a 650 , which has factory and that's the only thing I wished was different. You can unsolder and resolder the jumpers but that's a lot of work. I believe that the 652 came after Kimball took Conn over. And they are famous for connection soldering problems inside. Many have to have hundreds of connections resoldered. One thing people fail to comment is these old organs were great pieces of furniture in a home. Much like a grand piano. I bought my 650 in 1970, at the age of 20, for $7,000. My parents thought I was crazy at the time as the average car was about $3,500. I still have it. The 652's were about $24,000 in their day, in the 1980's, I believe.
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Brilliant demonstration! Amazing that there's no clarinet stop. Also interesting is that on pipe organs, celestes rarely go below T.C., so when the expense of pipework wasn't a problem the celestes on electronic organs wasn't an issue, they still stopped at T.C.! Also it's such a shame you didn't demonstrate how it sounds without the tremulants & using relevant registration to attempt to recreate a "church" organ sound!
You have chords on the diapason, strings with unison, and full organ- all with no trems. That’s all it does well. Other than that, nothing worth noting besides maybe the flutes with Jazz voicing and no trems which provides a classical (esque)sound.
23.40 I`d say you`d been listening to Ralph Ringstad. No better person to listen to, keep going lad.
Are you by chance related to Vern Gregory, former owner of the Avenue Theatre (70’s) in South San Francisco? I believe his pipe organ is in Florida somewhere now??
I’ve always loved that song at the end. But what is the title of it??
Dancing Tambourine, written in the earlier part of the 20th century
Very well played Rich- very "George Wright-ish" in style and registration but hey nothing wrong with paying Tribute to the Great Man; just gotta ensure a White Console is sourced if YOUR album will be recorded in a location which has a Black and White tiled floor !! hee...hee. Seriously though you should consider doing a contemporary style album for Digital Download release on that Conn 652- cos the audio quality just on this RUclips video alone already sounds really kewl. As you mentioned you guys have some external spkrs connected with some pipes etc, but you ALSO have it all quite well miked so I think, if I may share an observation here, with a bit of "edge smoothing" re: Registration setups/ changes & indiv' voice volume balancing etc you'd knock together a ripper album. A bit of Ed Sheeran, bit of Adele etc for the masses, a few standards, bit of George Wright aye :) The audio quality thru a Smartphone using some of the DSP Audio Processing found on phones today or a nice home a/v system with a sub and for those who have an Atmos spec' receiver/amplifier surround system I recommend playing these ACME videos with the Atmos actually OFF and instead the DTS Neural-X ON !! If there AINT DTS Neural-X then running "Dolby Digital Surround Enhancer" on will still sound so SWEET ! Everyone will be out next morning looking for their nearest "Conn Organ Lodge" to buy a Conn with YOU as the ubiquitous "But WAIT, THERE'S MORE- the first 50 Conn 652's sold today include a FREE GIFT WITH PURCHASE- YES, YOUR VERY OWN RICHIE" !!
Seriously Richie, this demo is smashingly good mate. True, nothing really on RUclips ref Conn to any great degree - partic' a well recorded voicing/effects demo, as the Martinique, Caribe/Trinidad, Theatrette series ie 3 manual 580 and ANY of the 65x series don't normally sit on used organ sales sites for very long...well there's been a bit of a slowdown during this Covid Virus period. But Importantly Richie, jolly well done & respectfully best wishes,
Laurie in Oztraya.
( organ sales manager ; mid 70's - mid 80's. )
@@edb5956 Thank you!
Hello 👋 yes so much has been lost on modern board’s etc , I listen to certain so called top key boards these days = they just ain’t got it 🤷♂️ 😃 in fact - (no offence to some people, ) some sound awful 🤷♂️ = so I’ll sit at my Hammond organs & carry on 😣👍✅ cheers & thanks to you 🌈
Is there second touch on any Con instruments?
Why can't I make mine sound like that. He is a Organ God. What I wouldn't give to have him as a teacher.
A big live room helps just a bit ;)
I just wanted simple Church voicing for this organ.
hmmm I have a Hammond B3 Call me with a Leslie Speaker of course.
without doubt, a beautifully voiced instrument. However, I suspect that there is still a cart load of digital LSL crap inside not least, for the keying and control - a shame as this will finally be the end of this fine organ.
Everything on this organ, besides the music rack, is 100% original and working
Is it the camera or does he have a funny head?
Camera wide-angle lens distortion and the haircut, amazing talent for such a complete demo, though, a great find.
The gold rods to key the audio in those older models was a great idea in the day but break down over time UGH!!! TOo bad CONN never MIDI'ed their line..but realize they were out of the biz by the time MIDI was in vogue...especially before an accepted standard. I've had a variety of CONN's and today they are often 'come and get it!' Indeed they are analog tone generation. CONN claimed 'digital' but this was a sales gimmic...ONLY their multiplex keying was digital. NOT the tone generation which made ALLEN the distinguishing start of the digital organ. THe 653 was a Kimball contrivance really. The 652 was the last of the CONN's as I recall. Interesting to note: CONN declared bankruptcy in '69...yet the CONN 650 was still being made. I had no idea back then. A publishing company bought conn and later sold to some other firm. Pipe speakers....cute! Nice job Greogry!
Cons now seem to be tricky to keep going now , is it true salvaged parts are required ?
@@keithcitizen4855 Hi Keith The gold rods have a conductive coating that simply degenerates. The mains whose audio is keyed by these sound weak ..just poor contact. Not good and very hard to repair.
@@Organplayer1947 that sounds like audio signals being switched at the pedals - has anyone designed a retofit relay board with IC 's that pass audio signals through with Nano amp gates so the less than fully conductive contact bars could still be used , probably a silly idea of mine.
how do i hook up pipes to the 652
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Where is the ACME organ institute located?
Acme, Indiana... about a hour and 20 minutes by car south of Indianapolis, Indiana.. about 1 hour north of Louisville, Kentucky! Visitors are most welcome!
Is the Pedal completely polyphonic?
On the 52, the pedal division will only play 2 notes simultaneously- the highest note and the lowest note being played. If you couple the accompaniment or solo down, you can play as many notes via pedal as you want in those divisions, but the pedal division still only plays lowest and highest. .
@@pipeorganest Oh that's too bad... the 651, I think, was fully polyphonic on the pedals. That was the model George Wright had for his last Conn demo LP, unless he did another one that I'm not aware of. My dad's 643 was similar to the 51's on pedal -- one note from 16' Pedal stops in the lower octave, one in the higher octave, and the 8' Tibia and coupled stops from Accompaniment were completely poly.
You could on the 643 "trick" the pedals into giving you a nice 32' resultant by playing notes with a 16' stop like the Diaphone or Bourdon from G2 (piano terms) with a fourth up through B2, and then F2 with fifths up to complete the octave.
Octave 2 on piano, for those unfamiliar, means the same octave as the lowest one on organ keyboards including Pedal. The third octave on console organ manuals is the same as Octave 4 on a piano, both start with middle C. So when I say G2, it means G in the lowest organ clavier octave.
(It became important for me to know this as a singer. Lol.)
Play the bloody thing, sound like Donald
What a shame you didn't play any music.
Check for his other videos on this organ! :)
What was the first tune he played towards the end please?
No replies to nice comments boooo
nice organ! The hammond impression it does is meh. My lowrey ls1 can do a much better hammond impression than that.
and nice playing at the end of the video too!
What is that last piece you played?
His head! Why is it pointy?
I had been playing Conn organ youtube videos all night while doing other things, not watching, just listening. I came back to the computer and had a quick scroll through the comments, came across yours. I thought " Why would someone make a disparaging comment about someones personal appearance?". I scrolled back to the top and actually had a look at the guy doing the demo. WTF !! Whoa dude, what sort of weird -arse hair style is that ?!!! He does a great job of the demo, but man, what is going on with that fucking hair ?? I just looked at some of his other videos and his hair is normal. So is his head. Why on earth would he choose to go with a Marge Simpson hairdo in this video?? Bizarre !! Hopefully not some new fashion trend, please no, not after the goddam ugly man-bun. eewwwwww
Yall have me weak- The video was done on an iPhone 11 with the Wide Angle mode, which stretches things out. My head ain’t pointy 🤣
@@pipeorganest Love the way you mug the cam at the LOUD bits, cracked me up.
Awesome demo, love your videos! Thanks!
Talk too much???
Would you like some Cheese with your Whine?
@@pipeorganest No chease please, but let the instrument speak for itself, it's voice is inspiring enough. Best whishes and thanks for the demo.
Who else can't see anything else but the great beehive hairdo?
😂 it looks like its caused by a distorted camera lens, but its not. Very nice organ though.