Lowrey model d500d550 organ

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There were lots of tabs and buttons on a working (almost) organ for $50 with a bench, not too many keys. Flutes or tibias or whatever they called them were normal. Dried up caps again? or were the sounds designed that way? The 'piano' tab is not as good as the glock on my H100, harpsichord was okay if you liked Mitch Miller's 'harpsichord' on 'Come Inna My House' (Rosemary Clooney), some tab called 'wow' had a nice distorted flat top wave sound. I thought the auto-rhythm might be useful sitting in the corner while I played something else and I liked the rhythms presented okay, but the sounds were strange, kind a boop and a boink and a wood block, not really drum sounds. So is it worth it? It has a leslie apparently, although I forgot to try that part. I was on a bicycle, I would need to rent a u-haul or fix my gasoline problem (Ha!) to get it home.

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While I was playing the manager came by and offered it to me for $50 instead of $75. It was silent for 5 minutes, then it started working (power supply caps probably). So I tried out a Lowrey D500 at Salvation Army yesterday.

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