Re: Yamaha combo organ???

[Ken Hall <hallk@post.queensu.ca>]

At 07:55 PM 3/3/97 GMT, you wrote:
>Yamaha did make a line of combo organs including some rather strange
>hybrid combo organ/analog synths. I have one, a Y?-20. All in all a
>decent hammond imitation (for the time), The synth is a five voice
>non-midi. A rather unique example of keyboard evolution - the end of
>the combo organ beginning of the synth. It predated the DX-7 by about
>4 years. 
>That is a Yamaha SK 20.  There was also an SK30 and an SK50D ( double manual ) 
Previous to that line, there was a line of combo organs called YC - 25 etc.
They had the sort of paddle style "drawbars" which carried on for many years
later in Yamaha's home organ line. Lots of multi coloured plastic.  The
whole top half of the cabinet of my YC 25 was fire engine red plastic. Very
cool!  You could tilt it up and play it on an angle.  It also had a feature
which has come to be known as after touch which could be assigned to the
vibrato.  A little extra pressure at the bottom of the key travel, and
vibrato would be introduced. A nicely expressive control for solos. 
These units were very tough, unlike the Fafisas of the same era.  Brings
back a lot of memories.... sigh....  Cheers, Ken
Ken Hall 
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