HOLY CRAP! This is a GREAT deal!! 350.00 opening bid with a 550.00 Buy It Now via THIS auction!

“Offered for sale is a Lowery Spinet Festival Organ Model # NL-20. This piece was recently included with an Estate Purchase and looks to be in great condition. This is the Electronic Spinet and retailed for over $10,000.00 New. We are offering this item at well below retail and it still has many years of enjoyment left. This Organ was purchased NEW and used very little if at all. We have the Owners Manual and song book included as shown.

Some of the details are as follows: 4 preset registration buttons, LCD display. 2-44 note keyboards, 13-Bass Pedals, 2-Channel (Stereo) Sound System (2×40W), 2-6″x9″ Full Range Speakers, Rhythm Preset buttons, Music Chord System, Automatic Organ Computer, Upper & lower symphonic voices, bass voices, digital voices/upper voices, orchestral voices (upper & lower), solo voices (upper only). Effects: Vibra Trem, Dynamic Keying (On/Off), Celeste, Solo Portamento, Reverb Effect, Transpose, Chorus, Sustain. Dimensions: 42″ Wide, 25.25″ Deep, 39.75″ Tall, 146 pounds. Serial Number: NL20-109J3-75240 WALNUT 1993 Year Of Production. Bench is included in great condition as well.”

And check out this sad sign of the times – great incentive, though (if you live up the street).

“Choose the BUY IT NOW option and receive $50.00 Credit towards gasoline expense for pick-up at our location in Greencastle, PA. 17225. Shipping can be arranged for a fee by our truck. Pick-up at our location is preferred.”

Well, I’ve escaped the Computer Organ Terror War with nothing but mental scars.  Sorry for the absence, but I mean, you all had to deal with it, too.  I was truly sure that the Computer Organ High Command were going assimilate the last B-3 on Earth with a VSTi compatible USB port for online editing.  Who could have seen that playing Liberace would destroy the Computer Organ Uprising?  I would have guessed “Switched On Bach” or something else synthesizery that would have made the Computer Organs feel inadequate.  Instead, it was their lack of purity.  Hmmmm… I’m not sure I like that moral.

OUR SAVIOUR FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!

Anyway, I’m back, for now.  Due to the unspeakable horror of the past few months – people are dumping their organs like never before!

Today we have this Gothic beauty:

The Technics PCM Sound EX5L

via this AUCTION

Dirt cheap opening with a 95.00 bid out of Colorado Springs.

Ahhhh… back to good ol’ non-killer, blood thirsty, slave crazy robot organs!

Here we have a Wurlitzer Omni 5000 up for AUCTION from wholesome Witchita, Kansas yet another P.U.O. with a starting bid of 65 bux.

How about a few pix?

WAIT!  WHAT’S THIS?!?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Holey Moley!

Have you ever dreamed of having a ‘H.A.L. 9000′ style computer in your organ helping you play your best?

“I’m sorry, Mars, but you played an incorrect note.”

“I’m sorry, Mars, but playing the Banjo setting with the  Dyna Mute setting is in poor taste.”

“I’m sorry, Mars, but your blood alcohol level is too high to play me with any kind of accuracy at this time.”

Yeah, me neither.  But as I said in the last post, marketing departments of the 1970’s seemed to think we did.

So here we have another blast from the past courtesy of this Newhall, California, Pick Up Only AUCTION.

The Kmball EP-1 w/ Elka ‘Computer’

beep boop!

“Ready to assist you, PeeWee!”

It’s the 1970’s.  Just the word ‘computer’ sends society into a fantasia of Kubrik-ian proportions.  So it comes as no surprise that everything that could be even remotely identified as being a computer would have the term tacked on the product.  Enter this mystery:

Baldwin Microcomputer Orchestra

The pictures are nice, but the enigma remains…

It has a preset called … wait for it… Fantomfingers!

Via this AUCTION P.U.O. in Scottsdale, AZ (whaaa?  Another Arizona Organ!?!?)

Another FANTASTIC Classic 200 up for sale on Ebay for 400 bux (OR you can make a ‘Best Offer’).

“Classic Hammond Aurora  Multiplex Synthesis , Two 44 note Keyboards, 13 Pedals, Harmonic Tonebars Upper Keybord one set of 9 Tonebars, Lower Keyboard set of 7 Tonebars, Piston Presets: Vibraharp, Theatre, Jazz, Hammond Sound, Full Organ, Polysnethesis Precussion Variable Repeat, 2nd, 3rd,& 5ht Harmonics, Vibraharp, Twin Mallet Marimba,Chimes,Pluck Pizzicato, Banjo,Harpsichord,Piano, Piano Solo,Second Voices, Violin,English Horn,Kinura,Diapason,Pedals 16′&8′Bass Guitar, Easy Play Group,Brite Foot, Bass Walk, Memory Chords, One Fnger Chords, Auto Chord, Leslie Lower, Leslie Upper, Leslie Reverb, Leslie Chorale, Vibrato, Melody Maker, Philharmonic Strings, Sustain, Fascinating Fingers, Headphone Jack, Speakers ONe 12″, tow 8″ One 6″, Power Amplifiers  2-35 Watt, 1-12 Watt

Dimensions 48 1/4″L, 44″ H, 25 1/2 ” D  Weight  272 Lbs (Including Bench)

Showroom condition, Local Pickup only”

Someone in Tucson, AZ will be rockin’ that any day.

It seems that the Hammond Piper Autochord is the most popular item here on Organ*Pron.  Whether that’s because you all have one and want to see how much you can get for it (probable), or because everyone suddenly thinks they’re super cool (unlikely) I DON’T KNOW.

SO.  Here’s an AUCTION out of Scottsdale, Arizona.  The seller is  asking 49.99 US.  This one has a bench!  PICKUP  ONLY, although they will deliver anywhere in The Valley for 50.00 plus sales tax.  Really nice clean model.  Click for larger image.

see the original post HERE

This week is a good one on the ‘bay if you’re an ARP string machine fanatic – also somewhat frustrating.  Click titles to go to the matching auction.

ARP Quartet

ARP Omni

And then these two poor bastards who no doubt had their filters removed for some synth DIY bologna!

ARP Omni sans VCF & ASDR filters

ARP Omni II sans MANUAL

oh man, that’s gotta smart.  On the bright side – if you bought both of these, you could probably cannibalize one to feed the other – it’s totally feasable at 49.99 each!

Buy them for me.

Via this AUCTION

“UP FOR GRABS IS OUR NEAR MINT FULLY RESTORED ARP OMNI VINTAGE STRING SYNTHESIZER. WE ARE BROKEN HEARTED TO HAVE TO PART WITH HER BUT I JUST GOT MARRIED AND SOME THINGS JUST HAVE TO GO. THIS WAS RESTORED BY ONE OF THE BEST TECHS IN THE COUNTRY, JEFF BLANKENSOP FROM E.A.R.S (EXPERT AUDIO REPAIRS) N.Y.C. HE TOURED WITH PINK FLOYD FROM DARK SIDE OF THE MOON TO THE WALL AMONG OTHERS. HE WAS THEIR PERSONAL TECH AND HAS BEEN REPAIRING THIS STUFF SINCE IT WAS NEW. HOW CAN YOU BEAT THAT. THE COSMETICS ON THIS BABY ARE UNREAL. IT HAS BEEN IN OUR SMOKE FREE STUDIO SINCE NEW. WE ACTUALLY HAD 2 RESTORED AT THE SAME TIME ONLY NEEDED ONE SINCE A STUDIO DOWNSIZE BUT KEPT THE NICER ONE FOR OURSELVES . THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES THE OWNERS MANUAL,SERVICE MANUAL AND THE ULTRA RARE ARP OMNI PROMO DEMO . THE PHOTOS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. ITS NOT CHEAP. BUT THE BEST NEVER COMES CHEAP.  BUT A CRUMMY ONE FOR $300 AND RESTORE IT IF YOU CAN FIND A EXPERIENCED TECH. HER YOU HAVE A NM ONE FULLY RESTORED. ( see bill of sale photo)  IN PLUG AND PLAY CONDITION.  THIS IS THE ONE THE ONLY ORIGINAL STRING SOUND YOU HEARD ON MANY RECORDINGS OF THE 70s/80s ROCK GROUPS.”

Beautiful.  Buy it for me.

HEADS UP FLORIDA ORGAN FREAKS!!

This is why I love organs!  Unlike synthesizers, people just want to get rid of them!  Here’s a perfect example:  A Lowrey GX-2 in Lake Wales, Florida for 200 dollars.  That is UNBELIEVABLY cheap!!!  Hey, I know!!  Buy it and send it to me!

DAMMIT, WHY COULDN’T THIS BE IN ATLANTA!!!