"Hvorfor er lykken så lunefuld" - with Spacesound speaker

YouTube Published on Jul 16, 2012 by organfairy

"This is an old piece of Danish film music from the 1930's. The sheet music I have says that it is composed by Karen Jönsson and the lyrics (which I don't sing) is credited to Carl Viggo Meincke.

For the first time I have used this wacky contraption on a recording. It is a SpaceSound rotating speaker unit taken from an old Elgam organ. I made it during my years of unemployment in the late 1990's. The organ is a heavily modified Elgam Grand Gala - actually the same organ that the speaker comes from - and it is recorded on my Fostex model 80 multitrack tape recorder. The rhythm comes from an Elgam Ringo table organ.

This is an example of how it could have sounded if I had been playing in the 1970's. One thing you often hear is people who are claiming that the instruments were so much better in that period of time. But they tend to forget that 35 years ago all electronic instruments were very expensive so I consider this a realistic example of home organ music from that era - even though I made the recording in 2012."