Baldwin Fun Machine Organ and Rythm Machine

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"vintage 1970's ANALOG BALDWIN FUNMACHINE ORGAN (Model 121F) Synthesizer Piano Keyboard!!!

This is the Organ that put the Optigan out of Business!" ??

"It is all analog, its reliable, high fidelity sound, and better than the Optigan in my opinion since there are NO discs required, so YOU DON'T have to run around like a DUMMY on eBay or antique shops looking for a Disc to make it work! This is the machine that put Optigan out of business!!! It is a FUN MACHINE!!!

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Orgatron I

via John:

"I've had this thing for several years-- found it at a pawn shop-- but never thought to look it up. It's an old monophonic electronic organ. It says "Orgatron I" on the front. There are four switches: 1. Power 2. Vibrato (On/Off) 3. Volume (Slider) 4. Voice (Flute, Reed, Brass, Horn). The last switch appears to be some sort of preset variable filter. It would be awesome to mod it to be continuous, but that's beyond me, and I wouldn't want to open it up. It will run on 6 C batteries, but also has a standard AC power adapter plug similar to the Casio SK-1. Anyone know more info on this? All I could find was this:" "Here is a vintage Orgatron I which is a battery operated organ or you can use an AC adapter for electricity instead of batteries. It takes 6 “C” batteries which are not included. This organ comes in the original box and there are 5 music folio’s included. They have 8 sheets of music with a song on each side and there is quite a large variety of music. The first folio also has the instruction sheet and it is dated ©1973 GTR Products, Inc.

Here is a list of some of the songs available to play on this organ. Little Brown Jug, Pop Goes the Weasel, Old Dan Tucker, Ten Little Indians, Skip to My Lou, Red Roses For a Blue Lady, A Hot Time in the Old Town, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Greensleeves, Fascination, Animal Fair, This Old Man, with some religious songs along with a few Christmas and so many more... It measures 15 ½” long x 8” wide x 2” tall."

Update via pea in the comments: "this is the same thing as a GE Tote-a-Tune"

and video via JohnnyJohny:

General Electric's Tote-A-Tune (1971)

YouTube via matiaslaporte

Lou Reed Uses The Haken Continuum

This one sent in via John:
"Was reading the music reviews in the New York Times and found this:

Music Review | Lou Reed
All Those Sounds From the Stage: Processed, and Not Always Pretty

'Although for half of the show, before picking up a guitar, he played a Continuum Fingerboard, a touch-sensitive instrument that depends on outside sound sources; it wasn’t clear whether Mr. Reed’s were guitar-related or not.'"

image: Chad Batka for The New York Times click for the full review. http://www.hakenaudio.com