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!!

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. 😀

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great music, great instruments :-)