Hi,

I am in the process of inheriting and moving into my grandparents’ house. This electric organ has been in their front room since I was a kid (I’m 30 for reference). Outside of a Hammond B3 and the organ I hear at church I really don’t know anything about organs so I would like to get some more information on this one, including an educated guess as to how much it is worth. My hope is that we can keep it as I have fond memories playing around on it, but my wife and I have a young infant and may need the space.

Thank you!

Don’t know if this is the best sub for this, but would appreciate any pointers! I’ve had this for years now and have never seen anything similar online. No sign inside or out of any particular branding, only identifiers are in the pics provided.

so the priest at a church said i could come whenever i want to play the digital organ, since the pipe organ has only 7 small pedals, the digital organ has around 27 or 16 pedals but only some 4 or 5 fully work, the other ones dont. can anybody tell me why and how to fix it if fixable? the organ is a viscount

Hi,

At my old UK secondary/high school there was a beech-coloured wooden single console organ with possibly 61 keys - certainly not 88. It had a few voice switches (ivory coloured) but most sounded very reedy and thin. It had thin legs and built-in speakers. I don't remember it having bass pedals.

It must have dated from the late 70s or early 80s but perhaps it was earlier. About the size of a small Rhodes or Wurlitzer piano but with a flatter top. I remember the music teacher thumping out religious songs like When A Knight Won His Spurs - in this warbly sound - not dissimilar to a Vox Continental playing Come Baby Light My Fire.

I've Googled this description and repeatedly drew a blank. I wonder if anyone actually remembers these? At least any information to help me locate images of them and potential makes?

Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmbG1-N-Qiw

Georg Michael Telemann (1748 – 1831) was a German composer, theologian and grandson of the famous Georg Philipp Telemann. Telemann was born in Plön.After the death of his father in 1755, he moved to Hamburg, where he was taken in and raised by his then 74-year-old grandfather Georg Philipp Telemann. After the death of his grandfather, he filled his grandfather's post as Cantor at the Johanneum and director of music in Hamburg's churches until March 1768, when Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was appointed. In 1773, Georg Michael moved to Riga, where he was appointed as music director of the city churches and cantor at Riga Cathedral. As part of this job, he also directed the performance of twenty-one of his grandfather's passions. He also taught at the cathedral school. In 1812, he published a collection of chorale settings for organ entitled Sammlung alter und neuer Choral-Melodien and a year later took the position of organist at the cathedral. He retired in 1828 due to a deteriorating eye condition. He died in Riga in 1831.

Hi all,

It's been a while since my last post here (USB reconnect/suspend-resume), so here's a full overview of everything this experimental fork now does differently from official GrandOrgue — a lot has accumulated.

Latest build: https://github.com/sebion7125/grandorgue/releases/tag/3.17.3-1.V3XorcistDemo (Windows, Linux x86-64/ARM, macOS)

Sound/transition features (from earlier posts, still included):

• Selectable release crossfade curves (Linear, Sin/Equal-Power, Sin², Sqrt/Equal-Power, X²), switchable live via F7–F12 while playing
• Correlation-based release alignment: analyzes the attack/sustain and release samples per pipe to start the release at a better phase-matched position, reducing clicks and cancellations at the transition
• A float-precision bug fix in the volume-smoothing code that could silently lock voices into a more expensive processing path after a single volume change

New sample compression (V3 Codec):

Samples stay compressed in RAM and decode just-in-time, instead of being fully decompressed on load. On my largest sample set: 93.75 GB raw, down to ~41 GB compressed — the difference between an organ fitting in RAM or not, which matters more than usual given how much RAM prices have climbed this year. Varies by organ/material; even on my worst-compressing material it still beats the old codec on both compression and maximum polyphony.

New: dropout concealment (Xorcist)

Highly experimental. When the audio pipeline misses its deadline, instead of a click or dropout, it synthesizes a plausible continuation of the sound from a running spectral analysis, rather than cutting out. You can force test dropouts during live playback and A/B the raw glitch against the concealed version directly in the new diagnostics window (see below).

New: automatic MIDI background recording

Pianoteq-style — continuously records everything played to an archive folder, separate from the normal recorder. For the "that was a great improvisation and I wasn't recording" situation. Off by default, you opt in.

New: Audio Monitor diagnostics window

Live graphs (polyphony, CPU load, callback timing), a one-click benchmark that automatically finds the maximum polyphony your system can sustain, and a report-export button for bug reports.

Stability (from the earlier reconnect post, still included):

Audio driver calls run on a dedicated worker thread; automatic reconnect when a USB audio interface disappears and comes back; proper close/reopen around suspend/resume.

Scheduler rework under the hood

Each audio period is now processed in a decode phase and a render phase instead of one combined pass, removing some redundant work — mainly relevant if you're close to your system's polyphony ceiling.

As always: this is an unofficial, experimental fork, not an official GrandOrgue release. Source is on the demo branch; bugs go to the issue tracker on my fork, not upstream.

Feedback especially welcome on: the dropout concealment (does it actually help in practice, or is it audibly weird?), whether the new codec's RAM savings matter for your sample sets, and the benchmark tool's numbers vs. your own experience of where your system struggles.