From rafael2pop@yahoo.com.ar Mon Aug 20 05:54:36 2012
Subject:Re: Organs that speak spanish

Simon and Everyone,

You're pointing in the right direction.

Remember the old days in late 60s using the Hammond at church

trying over and over to emulate "the organ that talks" before buying my

beloved Farfisa Fast 5 with a Vibratone 16 re-labeled but keeping the badge
" Leslie by CBS,  Pasadena, CA"

Seems that the history between Italy and Leslie has been of long mutual dating

IIRC wasn't too bad to get that "clonewheel" wannabe unless when using flutes only and Leslie.

Other keys i.e. strings or oboe, became the sound in an "electronic whistle "

IMO the key for the organ that talks are drawbars, but without a swell pedal that technique simply won't work.

Swell pedal is key as it gives what the human voice intonation is.

A swell pedal sometimes is a missing link not only in keyboards with only "sustain pedal socket" but
also in clonewheel stuff. or MIDI master keyboards

Thanks to the web knew that Olvera was from MX and performed as  Ernesto "Hill" Olvera

I used to say "Ernesto Gil Olivera" Spanish predictable complex last name, unless that was it sounded to my ears by those years

The Hammond local sales rep by late 60s  didn't tell me that the X-66 used by mostly performers in MX, was transistorized and different to classic tube Hammonds

Nevertheless it was ouf of my tiny pockets as student.

The wave of Baldwin and Lowrey came here after Hammond bankcruptcy BTW , never saw new Hammonds for sale again.

Sometimes feel that sharing those "old good times" wity you is almost a therapeutical talk so thanks for reading my now "dinosaur" tales.

Best

Rafael

  

Sun Aug 19, 2012 3:54 am        (PDT)        . Posted by:
"Simon Beck"         butterfingersbeck   

Volume pedal articulation has a very important part to play as well, in order to produce realistic and understandable speech (I  notice that not all of the "talking organists" on YouTube have
understood this subtlety!), which makes the technique all the more
challenging.

Simon