Re: Farfisa

[James McCarty <jmccarty@freenet.columbus.oh.us>]

I started with a Compact Combo Deluxe. It was the definitive Combo. 5 1/3'
and 2 2/3' voices, two octave bass with a 8' voice that would allow and
poor man's split (the bass was polyphonic).

I then got a Professional. A very cool keyboard. It had three voices
(flute, reed, percusion) with nine on/off switches at the "normal"
footages. There was a fourth section with some other voices. It had a
"big" sound unlike many of the earlier farfisas. I fed it into a "hot
rodded" leslie. A local organ store actually rigged up a couple of beat-up
leslies by removing the amps and speakers and replacing them with JBL
drives and a passive cross over. The leslie was plugged into the speaker
out (in my setup a Kustom 400 watt silver flake roll and pleat job). There
was a two switch foot pedal (slow/fast and bypass). Looking back, I can't
say it sounded good, but it was loud. It sounded much better than the
normal combo setup. 

On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Paul Benoit wrote:

> Farfisa approached the 
> "Hammond sound with the "Professional" used by Sly in the Family Stone -- 
> it tilted on a stand. 
> 
> Paul
>