My worst organ! & the Ringo Rythm Machine

Published on Oct 21, 2013 organfairy·393 videos

"This can only be described as my worst organ.

But nonetheless there is funny story behind it: I bought it at a charity sale for 10dkr (approximatly 2US$) in 1997 and transported it home on my bicycle - some 15km. There were all kind of defects inside: The previous owner had unsuccesfully tried to build in a speaker output with a short circuit as the result. That had fried the amplifier and the amplifier had overloaded the power supply so it didn't work either. Most of the trimmers on the tone generator was cracked or broken off, and there was a broken trace in the circuit board of the rhythm unit.
But a couple of days later it all worked.

The song is called "Der er noget galt i Danmark" (Something is wrong in Denmark) and was a big hit for Danish singer John Mogensen in the early 1970's. The rhythm and melody is played on the Ringo. The other notes are from the Elgam Grand Gala."

This is the first Ringo post.