Lowrey organ

A Lowrey Royale SU500 / Palladium 630 organ (high end model)
The Lowrey Holiday Deluxe Model LSL (1961) has a built-in Leslie speaker.[1]
Lowrey DSO-1 Heritage Deluxe (c. 1962)
Lowrey Genie 44 electronic organ (1970s)
Lowrey C500 Celebration electronic organ (1977)
Lowrey Journey EY320 Virtual Orchestra (2010s)

The Lowrey organ was an electronic organ named after its developer, Frederick C. Lowrey (1871–1955), a Chicago-based industrialist and entrepreneur.[2] Lowrey's first commercially successful full-sized electronic organ, the Model S Spinet or Berkshire, came to market in 1955, the year of his death.[1] Lowrey had earlier developed an attachment for a piano, adding electronic organ stops on 60 notes while keeping the piano functionality, called the Organo, first marketed in 1949[3] as a very successful competitor to the Hammond Solovox.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Lowrey was the largest manufacturer of electronic organs in the world.[2][dubious – discuss] In 1989, the Lowrey Organ Company produced its 1,000,000th organ.[4] Up until 2011, modern Lowrey organs were built in La Grange Park, Illinois. In 2011, it was announced that production of a few models was to be moved to Indonesia.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference PugnoCurry2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Girardot, Jan (2007). "Organ Tradenames". Musical Instrument Technicians Association. Archived from the original on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  3. ^ Davies, Hugh (2016). Organo. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.L2291305. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Music Trades". 1989-07-01. Archived from the original on September 3, 2009. Retrieved 2008-07-20.