From dwatson@oceaninlay.com Thu Jan 07 19:29:05 2010
Subject:RE: First clones?

(I apologize for the LONG delay in responding to this thread. I sorted
through some previous posts and responded to what Bruce had written without
any thought of the date until after I had written the following.)

I too had a Farfisa, a combo compact, but I wouldn't refer to that as a
'clone'. In 1969 I purchased a used Vox Super Continental, fed through a
Leslie preamp/footswitch to a 31H I modded with dual motor stacks. I'm not
sure, but that 31H might be the Leslie I sold to Mike Torsone featured in
Vail's "Beauty in the B".

My band practiced in the casket room of a local mortuary, don't ask! :-)

One day three of us young high school 'hippies' were outside the funeral
parlor, wheeling the 31H on a casket dolly or whatever they're called. The
bass player routinely wore a leather top hat and I'm not sure what the rest
of our garb included. We weren't attempting to be on stage, we were simply
getting the gear back into the mortuary after a gig the night before. I
still remember two gentleman driving by in an older 50's Ford pickup. They
slowed down and you could see the white's of their eyes as they stared at
our entourage and Leslie assuming that the carrier was supporting what it
was designed for. Aaaah, the sixties!

The Vox organ had twelve individual oscillator boards that had to be tuned
frequently. It was the closest sound I got to a tonewheel until replacing
the Super Continental with an M3 in 71, in turn replaced with a '37 BC and
122 in '73. I am still gigging with the 122 and it looks good having last
been refinished in '75.

Regards,

Donn

-----Original Message-----
From: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Bruce Wahler
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:21 PM
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Cc: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CWSG] First clones?

Technically, my first clone was a Farfisa Mini Compact through a Uni-Vibe.

My first 'serious' clone was a Vox Continental through a Leslie 147RV.

My first 'real' clone was an Elka X-50.

Regards,

-BW
--
Bruce Wahler
AshbySolutions.comT
978.386.7389 voice/fax
bruce@ashbysolutions.com