I feel like I'm listening to the Nintendo Wii shop channel, but I love it!

Thanks for sharing these. I grew up on Yamaha Electones. My parents bought me the E-10AR, when I was 12 but had been playing them since I was 7. I participated in multiple Electone Festivals, starting at ag 9 and fortunate enough to make it to multiple regional levels, all the way through the pro divisions. I was also blessed to study for 6 years with the great Rollie Hudson, a Yamaha Electone Concert Artist. I then worked for a Yamaha dealer in the Chicago area while I was in College and after, selling them. I recall when we got in the HX-1. The Store Owner had it delivered to my apartment (full-sized speakers and all) to work with for about a week as a prep for selling it. Some great stuff!!

Amazing to me that these instruments seem to have next to no value today. I was given one about a year ago and became obsessed with learning how to play it...now I have 6 of them and I think I have a total of $200 invested! I'm gonna need a bigger house soon, lol.

My Dad gave me his Electone BK20B when he upgraded to a D65. Couldn't sell or give it away. Council collected it. Mess about with a PSR2000 keyboard and Casio CZ 101synth these days. 😀

Our church still has our Yamaha Electone B2B. Somewhere in the stockroom. The tag at the back said 1971 and it still plays!

Our first Yamaha Electone organ in church was the C-2B (1967) but we bought it in 1971. That’s where I learned my first few songs and hymns.

Que bonito reportaje de estos órganos. Recuerdo los años de mi niñez allá por los 70's. Gracias y saludos desde León Gto. México.

I have an Electone 205D and it sounds amazing. The analog filters are very pleasant. And the sine wav bass sub notes on the bass pedal sound sooo good. I would love to circuit bend mine to tap into the oscillators etc.... I am sure mine needs a recap however.

Happy memories from the time between '74 and 80 seeing, hearing, demonstrating and selling several Yamaha Electone's to happy customers. Now friends with a guy in the Netherlands who has set up a (not too big) museum of... guess what? YES. YAMAHA elecones, and a few other makes...

I still have an E70 - magnificent beast in its day. Rattles and wheezes a bit now - the tremolo speaker sounds like a wind turbine and there is a dodgy D key - but all over, a lovely reminder of times long past.

i absolutely love the performances here. i have a huge grin everytime i listen. is it truly all electone????

Thank you for this showcase of Yamaha Electone history! Really appreciate it! Miss all the grand designs of the Electone organs too.

Great video with the sound samples. It answered a lot of questions I about Yamaha organs. thanks for posting

Some players are overly enthusiastic with the expression pedal. Constant volume pumping in time with the music is quite nauseating. However, these machines always made a great sound. A real mechanical Leslie was very hard to simulate back in the 70's.

Great music, great instruments :-)

Looking forward to 80’s and beyond - 🙏

Those home organs from the 70s were basically analog synths with preset sounds. Programmable synths get put on this pedestal despite the fact that most of the time we just dial them into timbres very similar to those in home organs. Same with the built in rhythm arrangers that some people thumb their nose at in favor of programmable TR-808 and 909 boxes. Yet they’ll program rhythms not worlds apart from those patterns built into these organs. I have a room full of synths yet my Grandmas old Baldwin could go most of the same places. Jean Michele Jarre’s classic “synthesizer” album “Oxygene” is more or less a demo of mid 70s Elka organs. There is more organ than synth on that album yet it is considered a foundational work for today’s synth pop and EDM. Home organs are still popular in Japan and to a lesser extent in Europe. Really more like arranger workstations in home organ format. Yamaha offers these programs across Japan where they teach predominantly teenage girls to play these machines. These girls have videos all over KZfaq, and they will crush most “synth” players out there. They’re very talented and inspiring to watch.

At 9:20 I recognized the theme from Angie, the 1970's sitcom that starred Donna Pescow in the title role.

Very good !

Yamaha é yamaha. A melhor marca para instrumentos musicais.

Very nostalgic, I’d love an E75 and D85, some of the EX models looked amazing (and still do)

Excellent

Organs with still high value is the Hammond B3, C3, A100, L100 and other models.

Had a C-55 which is basic little brother to the E-75/7000 for a year, then switched to the updated version C-55 N. only difference was the green button for Fill in/Intro/Ending. Such great Organs. Also Had the kinda rare Yamaha TM-5 Tremolo cabinet which had for an electronic "Tremolo" a real nice sound and gave some needed punch for gigging, but boy if I had known back then I could have gotten a "real" 2 channel leslie in the 815 It would have been nice. Really great flute sound thru it, but the TM-5 had both the electronic Symphonic and Tremolo effect, so it was more in line with the A/B/C/D/E line of Electones. Great music and the 7000 sounds as good as it looks

Great! I have a BK-2 and BK-4 model. Can give a photo with pleasure if you need. Thanks for cool presentation!

Love the "If I Only Had A Brain" passage in Green Dolphin Street.

nice job..

No E-5AR? I had this one, from 1973. Console model, similar to the E-10, but with portamento felt strip & pull-out preset drawer.

I like this melody

This was fantastic. Would you tell me what´s the song starting on time frame 16´30, please?

Im so happy Im getting a electone F45 organ, hopefully I wont be disapointed with it Im getting it for $120 delivered. Its replacing a lowrey genie and I can't find any youtube video demo on the yamaha!

I love old electone

Amazing organ sound 19.25 🎹

I knew that the model 7000 was the same model as the E-70, but when I heard this sound, I knew it was the same model as the E-700. I owned an E-70. E-70, E-700, EX-1. I still like all of them.

Is it easy to run the output of a Yamaha A-55 into a mixer or effects processor? Also, is it possible (or advisable) to disable the internal speaker on these organs? I'd love one but space is an absolute priority. Great video; love the sound of these organs.

Yamaha always made great musical stuff. I dont remember them having that lovely Leslie sound though. Did they run these organs through a Leslie or was it an internal sound on these recordings? I spent years trying & failing to recreate that sound but eventually gave up.

The X series of the 70s you could sit on one and go to warp speed 😁

Buenas noches sr profesor donde venden estos instrumentos musicales? Y cuanto cuesta el organo musical

good sound recording quality for these old organ

I have a Yamaha Electone B-45 from 1977.

in 70s i have bk4...my father bought,,,very stronger organ ,,for beginner,,really nice

Beautiful work! Thanks! A curiosity is that there is a model, close to where I live, and I didn't see this model in your video (great video) The name of the model that I have here is B - 7D... could you tell me something about this model?

That EX 42 looks appealing.

I would say the Yamaha HS, HX and EL era produced the finest Electones.

Hello! just wanna ask if anyone know how to turn on the piano sound on the Electone FE 60? cause my Electone won't gave any sound when i tried to play the piano blocks, is it broken or did i missed some button? cause there's so much button on the Electone, I'm so confused

Is so sad that Yamaha music schools are gone. The sounds of the 70s-80s

Any chance part #2 will come out soon?

i found a free electone C-40. Are these any good? Deep bass? I play psyche rock. Thanks!

That E1 looks sooooo cool! By the way: The 7000 is the same as the E70 and the EX2 (stage version). A grand mix between early digital oscillators and analog filters and amplification.

Is there any such thing as a pre-1970s Yamaha keyboard with portamento?

Anyone willing to help me figure out a model A-45? The direction of a manual would be super ok.

Nice it, How can i get the organ like this please help me

I have a ME5500. I think that’s it, but no cassettes. Anyone know where I can get any?

Where is part 2

Can you hook these organs into a mixer or keyboard amplifier????

i though this music was played on a Wii shop while looking for some games to be downloaded

whats the somg in the background???

Would love to have one of those organs but two things stop me can't afford it and I don't know how to play would love to but too old but thanks for the sounds

I began to play the organ in 1974. This kind of instruments have disappeared now. Only synthesizers in music shops or Hammond😮 clones

What's the song at 12:32 ?

did not realize so many models

I still my HX1 that I bought after I sold my FX20

what's the difference between series A, B, C etc.?

We own the EX1 model for decades. If anyone wants to buy it let me know! It's in pristine condition and looks super awesome 🙂! Location : Ontario Canada

Where it's part #2?

dk-40?

Sounds like a 1970's mlb game

my organ isn’t playing any f notes. any idea why?

where is my a45?

Anybody know the song at 12:30??

I don't see my B-45 there... => Big time =-(

Number 2 never made it huh?

Whats the song in the first track?

First performer's use of the expression pedal caused a lot of volume pumping. Definitely not good for a recording.

Why does 12:30 hit different

I’ve been offered a Yamaha organ for free but I can’t spot it in the line up here, it’s a big wooden thing from the ‘70s

Electone 7000 is the same as E-75

Electone model naming is a disaster for people with OCD, just randomly dishing out letters and number. GX then FX then HX then ELX....