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Vintage Lowrey Organ Logo Serial Number Plate / Tag Peel & Stick. Factory OEM Lowrey Organ Transistor Theater Spinit Model H-R(with A.O.C. Leslie, Rhythm and Reverb) Schematic Diagrams Manual. LC98K-1 Saturn Deluxe LC98KSG Venus Spinet LC98KSG-1 Genius spinet M500 Jubilee ICG-1 The Genie TG-44 Genie 44 after serial# 290001 TG-44 Genie 44. Help identifying Lowrey Organ model, 01:28 PM. Check just under the keyboard, and there should be a plate number there that lists the model & serial. PREVIEW: sent the traditional organ sounds found on the Lowrey organ. Many of the tabs have a number on them. For example: Flute 16, Flute 8, Flute 4, Strings 8, and Reed 16. The numbers indicate pitch. The higher the number, the lower the pitch. Page 73: Master Control Tabs The Bass Tabs are on the far left side of the organ.

A Lowrey Royale SU500 / Palladium 630 organ (high end model)

Lowrey Holiday Deluxe Model LSL (1961) has a built-in Leslie speaker.^[1]

Lowrey C500 Celebration electronic organ (1977)

Lowrey Genie 44 electronic organ (1970s)

The Lowrey organ is an electronic organ named for its developer, Frederick C. Lowrey (1871-1955), a Chicago-based industrialist and entrepreneur.^[2] Lowrey's first commercially successful full-sized electronic organ, the Model S Spinet or Berkshire, came to market in 1955, the year of his death.^[1] Lowrey had earlier developed an attachment for a piano, adding electronic organ stops on 60 notes while keeping the piano functionality, called the Organo, first marketed in 1949^[3] as a very successful competitor to the Hammond Solovox.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Lowrey was the largest manufacturer of electronic organs in the world.^[2]^[dubious] In 1989, the Lowrey Organ Company produced its 1,000,000th organ.^[4]Up until 2011, modern Lowrey organs were built in LaGrange Park, Illinois. In 2011, it was announced that production of a few models was to be moved to Indonesia.

History and notable users[edit]

History[edit]

Frederick Lowrey experimented with electronic organ design, trying different methods of tone generation, from 1918 until the early 1940s, when he fixed on the Eccles-Jordan circuit, a very stable flip-flop oscillator, which became a Lowrey hallmark. The Lowrey organ differed from its main competitor, the Hammond organ (which also bears the name of its Chicago-based inventor), in relying from its inception on all-electronic tone generation,^[1] whereas Hammond used electromechanical tonewheels until 1975.^[5] Lowrey led Hammond in the development of automatic accompaniment features; in 1968, automatic rhythm was added, and in 1970 the Genie model added automatic left hand and pedal. While originally intended for the home entertainment market, Lowrey also produced theatre organs and a full 2-manual with pedal church organ.^[1]

Notable users[edit]

Lowreys were also used by some rock groups in the 1960s and 1970s. Garth Hudson, the keyboardist of The Band, played a Lowrey Festival organ on many of the group's most notable songs.^[6]Its sound can be heard prominently on the 1968 recording of 'Chest Fever', which begins with a Bach-inspired prelude/intro.^[7] The Lowrey Organ is one of several organs on The Beatles' 1967 song 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!' (from the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album), helping create a fairground atmosphere.^[8] Furthermore, a Lowrey DSO Heritage organ was used to produce the classic opening for 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'.^[9] The Lowrey Organ and its built-in drum patterns are also heard on the million-seller single, 'Why Can't We Live Together' by Timmy Thomas. A rather surprising use of a Lowrey Organ, on a percussive 'marimba repeat' setting, was the synthesizer-like background noise on The Who song 'Baba O'Riley'.^[10]

Mike Ratledge of Soft Machine switched from a Vox Continental to a Lowrey Holiday Deluxe^[1]^{[failed verification]} sometime between late 1966 and early 1967, and used it from then on, adding a fuzzbox and plugging it into a Marshall stack. To prevent feedback in the silences between notes (consequence of playing at a very high volume), Ratledge invented a style of his own avoiding the between-note gaps by soloing in legato.^{[citation needed]}Mike Oldfield made use of the instrument quite extensively on his Tubular Bells album, and on several later albums as well. The Gotye song State of the Art was written to showcase the sounds of the Lowrey Cotillion model D-575.^[11]

Later Models[edit]

From 1966 to 1971, Lowrey also produced combo organs for Gibson while the guitar manufacturer was owned by parent company Chicago Musical Instruments. The most popular of these was first introduced in 1966 as the Kalamazoo K-101, but was renamed the Gibson G-101 shortly thereafter. The Gibson branded organs' design and circuitry were similarly based on Lowrey's own 'T-1' and 'T-2' models, as well as their 'TLO-R' and 'Holiday' spinet models. However, they had several additional features that made their sound distinctive from other Lowrey models, including 'Repeat', 'Glide', and 'Trumpet Wow-wow' effects.

In the late 1970s, selling features of Lowrey home organs included Magic Genie Chords, Track III Rhythm and the Automatic Organ Computer.^[12]

In the 1980s, Lowrey launched the MicroGenie series of portable organs with built-in speakers, some of which could run on batteries. They including the MicroGenie V60, V100/101, V105, V120, V125 and MicroGenie Pro V600 (which was programmable and had MIDI capability).

Purchase by Kawai[edit]

In 1988, Lowrey was purchased by Kawai. ^[13]

On October 5, 2018, Vice-President of Lowery Division of Kawai America Corp., Seijiro Imamura, announces that Lowery Organ production would cease in January 2019. ^[14]

References[edit]

^ ^a^b^c^d^eFrank Pugno, Bil Curry (2005-11-03). 'LOWREY ORGANS'. Electronic Organs (theatreorgans.com/hammond/keng/kenhtml/electronicorgans.htm). VintageHammond.Com.
'In 1956, the Glide, a foot switch located on the left side of the expression pedal, was introduced, permitting the effects of a Hawaiian guitar “glide”, the smear of a trombone, the glissando of singing strings and the effect of a calliope. The Glide dropped the pitch of the organ about a semi-tone and cancelled the vibrato. / In 1961, Lowrey’s first home organ with a built-in Leslie speaker appeared as the Holiday Deluxe Model LSL. Automatic Orchestra Control, later renamed Automatic Organ Computer, came on the scene in 1963. / Fig. 2 – Holiday Deluxe Model LSL'
^ ^a^bGirardot, Jan (2007). 'Organ Tradenames'. Musical Instrument Technicians Association. Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
^Davies, Hugh. 'Organo'. Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
^'Music Trades'. 1989-07-01. Archived from the original on September 3, 2009. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
^Spark, Rod. 'The History Of The Hammond'. Sound On Sound. Sound on Sound Cambridge UK. Archived from the original on 8 June 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
^Doerschuk, Bob (December 1983). 'Garth Hudson: Legendary Organist with '60s Supergroup 'The Band''. Keyboard Magazine.
^Johnson, Brian D. (July 22, 2002). 'Garth Hudson (Profile)'. Maclean's.
^Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books.
^Babiuk, Andy (2001). Beatles Gear. San Francisco: BackBeat Books.
^'Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ: Baba O'Riley/Won't Get Fooled Again 'synthesizer' sound'. Whotabs. 27 August 2005. Retrieved 14 September 2010.
^'Planet Gear: Gotye on the Lowrey Cotillion organ and Making Mirrors'. Drowned in Sound. 4 January 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
^'Lowrey New Model Premiere organ advertisement (1977)'. Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
^http://www.kawai-global.com/company/history/
^https://lowreyorgan.uk/an-end-of-an-era-for-lowrey-organs/

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Lowrey organs were originally made in Chicago, Illinois (prior to 2011) and have been played in churches and by professional and home musicians since the 1950s.^[1] Lowrey entered the portable keyboard market in the early 1980s with the Wandering Genie, which was succeeded by the Japanese-made Micro Genie line. In January of 2019, Kawai, the owner of the brand, announced it would cease all production of Lowrey Organs.This list of models is incomplete.

Organs[edit]

Image	Model Name / Number	Years sold new
Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1	1968	Organ with 2 44 key manuals, 13 bass pedals, built-in spring reverb, Leslie effect, and marimba effect famously known from Baba O'Reilly by The Who played by Pete Townshend.^[2]
Carnival (C500)	1978	Automatic bass, rhythm and accompaniment. Two keyboards and bass pedals.^[3]
Coronation
Cotillion	1983	Theatre organ with memory presets and extensive features, including human voices and other sound effects.
Debut (L-65)	1981
Debut (L-70)	1982	Featured two keyboards and Magic Genie.
Encore (M-100)	1979
Festival	1960-1966	Two 61-note keyboards. 25 bass pedals.^[4] Features Automatic Orchestra,^[5] glide control, percussion and 'Moving Stereo' controls.^[6]
GAKH25 / GAK25H	1983	Console.
Genie (L-5)	1972-79^[7]^[8]	Featured walking basses and rhythm section.^[9] One finger play.^[3]
Genie (L-10)	1979
Genie (L-15)	1979
Genie 44	1975
Genie 88	1975
Genie 98	1975
Genius
Fiesta (L25)	1982-1984
Heritage
Holiday	1966^[9]-1983
Holiday (D-325)	1978	Two keyboards with Magic Genie.^[10]
Holiday Deluxe	1972-1974^[11]
Jamboree (TG 88)	1978-1979
Jupiter	1974^[11]	Featured Automatic Orchestra and Leslie Speaker.^[5]
LC-88	1980
Mardi Gras (L-55)	1982-1983	Featured four channels, double keyboard and Magic Genie chords.
MX-1	1981-1984
Organo	1956	60-note organ for attaching to a 'standard piano'^[12]
Pageant (M-150)	1982
Parade	1981
Saturn Deluxe	1974^[11]
Spinet	1956^[13]
Stereo Jubilee	1977^[14]
Stereo Genie 98-1	1977	Features Automatic Organ Computer and Lowrey Glide.^[15]
Super Genie	1974-1975^[11]
Symphonic Holiday	1975^[16]-1977^[14]	Four channels, 88 keys, two keyboards, Magic Genie.
Teenie Genie	1974-1976^[17]	Rhythm and auto-bass pedal accompaniment.^[18]
TG44-1	1977	Two keyboards and bass pedals.^[19]
TG44BK	1977	Two keyboards, pedals and built in cassette recorder.^[20]
TG98
TGB	1977^[19]
Theatre HR-98	Complete professional theatre organ.^[18]
Venus	1974

Portable organs[edit]

Some of Lowrey's portable organs were made in Japan and based on JVC designs.

Used Lowrey Organ Prices

Image	Model Name / Number	Years produced
L-2 Wandering Genie	1980-1982	Portable organ with Genie accompaniment. Effects include variable sustain, 'repeat' setting with adjustable tempo and 'glide' (single-tone pitch bender).
Micro Genie V60	Rebranded version of JVC KB-300/KB-303.^[21]
Micro Genie V100	49 keys. 8 note polyphony. Rebranded version of JVC KB-500.^[21]
Micro Genie V101	1982-1987	49 keys. 8 note polyphony.^[22] Rebranded version of JVC KB-500.^[21]
Micro Genie V120	1985-	61 full sized keys.^[23] Rebranded version of JVC KB-700.^[21]
Micro Genie V105	1986-	Hybrid of JVC KB-600 & KB-800.^[21] Features include MIDI in and out, AUX in and out, MIC in with adjustable gain. Expression pedal input.
Micro Genie V125	Rebranded version of JVC KB-808.^[21]
Micro Genie Pro V600	49 keys. Programmable. MIDI in and out.^[24] Came with 'guitar strum' accessory. Rebranded version of JVC KB-800.^[21]