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Saturday, September 25, 2021

Elgam Match 15 C (1971) vintage analog drum machine! The First Elgam Rhythm Box!

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"Extremely rare analog drum machine Elgam Match 15 C! This gorgeous analog rhythm box - made in Italy in 1971 – is the first electronic drum machine produced by Elgam, the italian brand that also invented the legendary Elgam Carousel in the same years! This gem is the same rhythm section that was then assembled on the Elgam Carousel! Extremely rare and highly collectable! It’s born in 1971, so this year this little gem turns 50 years old! The item is fully working and in very good cosmetical conditions for its age: the drum machine sounds great and works perfectly! The rhythms are mixable and very cool. It has a characteristic fat warm sound especially with a nice tape delay and reverb added. The tempo slows things right down and you can get some unintential sounds out of this piece of kit. For example, you could use it running through distortion pedals to get some interesting riff style sounds! On YouTube you can find a video of the smallest model of the same serie: the Elgam Match 7C!" [demos in previous posts here]

Friday, January 10, 2014

ELGAM MATCH 7c Analog Rhythm Box 1972 | HD DEMO


Published on Jan 10, 2014 AnalogAudio1·122 videos

"(c) 2014 by AnalogAudio1

The Elgam Match 7c is a non programmable analog rhythm box from Italy - the first from Elgam. It came out 1972. The 7 rhythms are mixable and very basic. It has a characteristic sound!

I played the Elgam with delay and reverb effects (Lexicon MPX-500 and Roland DEP-5)."

Monday, November 25, 2013

Elgam Autopsy

Published on Nov 25, 2013 organfairy·399 videos

"I have decided to take this organ apart. It is inferior to pretty much everything else I have - except for the smaller Elgam Ringo I presented about a month ago.

But instead of just using a sledgehammer I will take it apart gently so I can use some of the parts for other things and at the same time try to analyse why the Elka Preludio 22L is so much better even though the two organs are quite similar in apearance and age.

The music is played on this Elgam Grand Gala while the rhythm is from an Elgam Match 7C analog drum machine. The melody is called "Du ta'r det for givet" in Danish but think it is an American or English song. Does anybody know the original title?"

Monday, December 10, 2012

"Another day in Paradise" - on Elgam Grand Gala

Published on Dec 10, 2012 by organfairy

"Elgam Grand Gala is a typical 1970's European home organ in the lower-middle price region. The sound is not perfect but still useable to some extend. One problem with Elgam organs is that their tabs tends to break off. I got this organ for free in 2000 because it was going to be scrapped anyway. Out of the 24 tabs on the instrument only 2 were working properly - which gives a good impression on how terrible they were constructed. I don't know if there is a word called "plastic fatigue" but that pretty much describes the problem: There are two point on the tab that is rocked back and forth every time it is used and after a while little cracks starts forming. Finally the tab breaks and depending on which of the two points that has broken the tab will fall out or refuse to be turned off.

I rebuild the organ from a spinet to a combo and replaced all the original tabs with illuminated push-buttons. I was not able to save the rhythm section of the organ. It had been subjected to water damage - every IC pin had rusted away and the veneer on the cabinet had "bubbled" up.

The music is played on this organ except for the rhythm that comes from the little Elgam Match 7C. It was recorded on my 8 track Fostex tape recorder. So this is more or less how the old Phil Collins classic would have sounded if I played it in the late 1970's - except off course that it wasn't written back then..."
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