From las8323@rs175174.ks.boeing.com Wed Aug 22 10:29:53 2001
Subject:Re: 4 drawbars

George,
I have EE friends working in the spare time (who has the $$ to HIRE
these guys?) to find me a couple of components. Lots of ideas.

Picture this:
Hammond-alike. 2 manuals, 4 draws, etc. but it's just a controller.
48inch cabinet, but only 12inch (or less) tall. 45lbs. max. This has
easily enough room for a 2space module (or two) of your choice, if
you want the extra weight.

OOORRR,
You could then build up a leslie, 122 size, with tube amp, etc. BUT
put the V3-alike in *there*. Then you could connect with a simple
midi cable from any distance (wireless?) with NO hum, no interference,
and complete daisy chaining. Identical units would sound mostly
identical (they are, after all, wood) or you could have models that
are 31H (big mammajamma bass) or even PR40 (ick!) bassy tone cab. All
with just a midi -- AND each cab would have a xlr out for the built
in kobitones, if needed, cuz the amp could be as big as ..... Bruce's!!
Hey, even a sequencer controlled Leslie! How many times you wanted
that??

more wilderness yappin'
Larry

> Larry,
>
> 4 drawbars, 2 manuals, bass pedals, bench, leslie(145/142) low price,1
> van, no backache?
> that would be nice.
> The question is "If they build it(4 sets of drawbars 2 manuals, pedals,
> becnh ,50lbs under $3K)
> will they come" that is will 'we' buy it. Actually you can buy it for twice
> the price of a heart
> transplant, Hammond Suzuki XB3 $15000 cheap at twice the price and I think
> it only weighs
> 200lbs?
> As consumers musicians etc.. we are quite unaware of what it takes for a
> manufacturer
> to create a niche market product that will repay the investment(turn a
> profit?) and appeal to enough
> people who will actually buy it. I don't believe we(but we can hope) will
> see a dual manual 4 drawbar organ anytime soon. I think Viscount/Oberhiem
> (OB5) had a good idea/price but it was not well executed .
> As a B3 player of too many years than I want to count I always *********
> when I saw the various clones for not respecting the "tradition" enough to
> put things
> in the right place. I used to play an H/S XB-1? in the early -90's and I
> hated the
> thing and could not believe that Hammond would put their name on the
> product. The VK-7
> was a little friendlier as was the Xk-2 but I still didn't like them enough
> to get one.
> I choose to own a CX3 because it is IMO closest to the real thing and
> gives you more of
> the "B" experience than anything else. And it has '2 'sets of drawbars on
> a single
> manual and with some tweaking is very close to what I want to hear.
> Don't get me wrong I have my gripes with the CX3 but as a total package I
> am very satisfied.
> My $.02cdn
>
> George Klaus
>