From organbarry@gmail.com Wed Jul 31 16:33:33 2013
Subject:Re: Can someone ID this clone?

I played one of those once - if I remember, it was very cool looking -
the wooden top and sides and a cream colored control panel, etc. It had
a very nice organ and spinning speaker sound - it didn't sound
especially like a Hammond and Leslie, but it was a very pleasing sound!
I think it was some kind of last minute job and that's what they had
there - I enjoyed playing it!
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> Viscount had an early analogue clonewheel too; the 2-manual
> Intercontinental OP6 (about 1980). This looked like a copy of the Korg
> BX-3 and evolved into the MIDI-equipped single-manual D9 and the
> module version, the D9E. I doubt whether the OP6 ever crossed the
> Atlantic. The later Viscounts were widely available in the UK,
> sometimes rebranded as "Fujiha", presumably to combat the perceived
> image of Italian-made instruments as low quality (or possibly just
> "naff"). I nearly bought a second-hand D9-E about 20 years ago, but
> couldn't afford it at the time.
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> Simon Beck
> London, UK
>
> I think Italian clones always suffer the same problem and that is
> availability.
> Back in the 70's unless you went to New York and walked into Sam Ash
> you would not find a Crumar in Omaha. I know I looked. Crumar was
> always a word in the wind. No problem getting a real B3 and Leslie in
> Omaha. They had the latest models on display at Reniers on Dodge St.
> And unless you called Ash from Omaha and worked out a deal, it would
> be the only way to get one, and how would you know unless a little
> bird told you they existed, understanding then was not the 21st
> century? Even GC in Hollywood didn't have them in the 70's.
>
> Not saying the logistics of a company to be everywhere is easy. Its
> just an itch you can't scratch that even today is still itchy. Your
> Italian clones are hard to come by in 21st.
>
> g/
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