New York studio musician Dick Hyman recorded several albums for Command Records on Lowrey organs, making use of their Stereo capabilities.Įddie Baxter, organist for NBC Studios, recorded extensively for Dot Records on Lowrey organs. While originally intended for the home entertainment market, Lowrey also produced theatre organs and a full 2-manual with pedal church organ. Lowrey led Hammond in the development of automatic accompaniment features in 1968, automatic rhythm was added, and in 1970 the Genie model added automatic left hand and pedal. The Lowrey organ differed from its main competitor, the Hammond organ (which also bears the name of its Chicago-based inventor), in relying from its inception on all-electronic tone generation, whereas Hammond used electromechanical tonewheels until 1975. History and notable users History įrederick Lowrey experimented with electronic organ design, trying different methods of tone generation, from 1918 until the early 1940s, when he fixed on the Eccles-Jordan circuit, a very stable flip-flop oscillator, which became a Lowrey hallmark.
In 2011, it was announced that production of a few models was to be moved to Indonesia. Up until 2011, modern Lowrey organs were built in La Grange Park, Illinois. In 1989, the Lowrey Organ Company produced its 1,000,000th organ. Lowrey had earlier developed an attachment for a piano, adding electronic organ stops on 60 notes while keeping the piano functionality, called the Organo, first marketed in 1949 as a very successful competitor to the Hammond Solovox.ĭuring the 1960s and 1970s, Lowrey was the largest manufacturer of electronic organs in the world. Lowrey's first commercially successful full-sized electronic organ, the Model S Spinet or Berkshire, came to market in 1955, the year of his death.
Lowrey (1871–1955), a Chicago-based industrialist and entrepreneur. The Lowrey organ is an electronic organ named after its developer, Frederick C. 1962) Lowrey Genie 44 electronic organ (1970s) Lowrey C500 Celebration electronic organ (1977) Lowrey Journey EY320 Virtual Orchestra (2010s) Electronic organ A Lowrey Royale SU500 / Palladium 630 organ (high end model) The Lowrey Holiday Deluxe Model LSL (1961) has a built-in Leslie speaker.
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