One of my most musical Christmas gifts as as a kid in the Sixties was a light blue plastic Rosedale organ.
Here's one I saw on Ebay.
I managed to pick one up at a car boot sale years ago too so its back in my hands.
It produces a sort of church-like sound, which when notes and chords are combined, is quite beautiful. I loved messing with it as a young Rick Wakeman.
Probably its most famous public airing was when David Bowie no less, played it on the song Memory of a Free Festival on his early Space Oddity album. This is the Wikipedia entry about the song.
You can listen to it on You Tube.
Did you have a Rosedale organ?
I loved that breathy, wheezy sound the fan assisted organs make. ive got two bigger ones in the garage, cant play a note apart from a crippled version of the opening bars of Amazing Grace and the Close Encounters callsign!
ReplyDeleteThey are wheezy aren't they Bill. The Close. Encounters call sign? That explains why there are so many people hanging round your garage! I wonder if we have ever sent that call sign into space somehow really?
DeleteI loved mine, lived that windy start up
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