DON BAKER - THE GREAT SONGS FROM MOTION PICTURES - CONN 640 VACUUM TUBE ORGAN

DON BAKER at the all tube CONN 640 Electronic Theater Organ . LISTEN AND LEARN... Vacuum tube organs are priceless musical instruments that cannot be accurately imitated using digital electronics. What this means is that we are now faced with an ever decreasing supply of these organs if we want to get 'THAT SOUND'. BTW Listening in person to these great vintage organs is where it's at. That's when you hear what makes them special. Although a good pair of headphones can get you there too at least a little bit. Okay okay, so many pipe purists do not care for electronic organs, that's okay, but PLEASE if you are a pipe purist then keep your criticisms regarding the analog electronic and electromechanical organs away from your computer keyboard. These organs are disappearing one by one everyday by people who are clueless as to what they are capable of musically. They are being dismantled by fools who are content on turning out $108 as parts when if they were a little bit patient they could get twice that from a person locally who would come get the organ to PLAY IT! Every day these great organs are being busted apart to take the tube amplifier from them so that a mediocre guitar amp can be made. There are PLENTY of guitar amps already! There are plenty of spare 'amp parts', and in fact there are PLENTY of spare organ parts. DON'T destroy an organ for these reasons, PLEASE!

Plain and simple, electrons are very very small, but it doesn't mean that because of this we can just pretend these electrons have some sort of a 'sound foot print' that can be 'duplicated' using digital technology. No, in fact I have been preaching for years that digital has been going about things all wrong when it comes to analog electronics emulation. Fortunately for the cause nobody listened because we really have been given lots of toys to play with. Plus looking back I realize that for the direction I wanted digital to take we needed to progress a little further in MICRO ELECTRO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS ( or MEMS ). The completely new breakout science that awaits is what I am terming-
MICRO ELECTRO MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SYSTEMS ( or MEMMIS ). Using DIGITAL where it works best, and analog where it works best, we can finally unite the two sciences to create all new systems. Since the Hammond Tone Wheel Organ was the first, and the best MACRO electro mechanical organ, it is time to use digital to explore the VERY PRACTICAL AND VERY ACCURATE, TRUE TO FORM, MICRO ELECTROMAGNETIC ELECTRO MECHANICAL SYSTEMS.
Okay, if you are wondering what the heck I am talking about, it's simple- when every Hammond Tone Wheel Organ 'Clone' came along, they left out MAGNETISM. So why should this matter? Because the HAMMOND tone wheel IS magnetic. The HAMMOND tone wheel is ALTERNATING CURRENT. The HAMMOND tone wheel is a GENERATOR completely unlike ANY Hartley Oscillator or it's derivatives in it's behavior. And I don't know about you, but I can hear the difference between a real Hammond and a clone. So is it 'too little to matter', as so many organists say? Well...that is a bad attitude to take guys. Imagine someone saying that to Stradivarius or Steinway. Or Hammond;)

PRESERVE ANALOG ELECTRONIC ORGANS. OUR GRAND KIDS AND GREAT GREAT GRAND KIDS WILL PLAY THESE ORGANS. IN 20 YEARS THEY WILL BE A COLLECTORS ITEM...JUST BECAUSE EVERYTHING ENDS UP IN THAT REALM WHEN THERE ARE FEW EXAMPLES LEFT. EVEN THE EDSEL! So don't let it happen to the electronic organ 1929-1979.
Yes, that's FIFTY, count'em 50 YEARS! the best organs were made from 1955-1968. These are the tube years for organs, but also great years for transistor electronic organs. Transistors are very much right at home in the electronic organ tone generator. Do watch and listen to the Conn model 642 transistorized organ on the DICK DELANEY CHANNEL and compare the vacuum tube Conn sound to the transistor Conn sound. They are both great!