2000-10-03 by PLANK.
This could be a long answer.
All Crumar T organs had 9 drawbars,and 2 percussion
drawbars. 4 buttons for the 3 pre-set sounds and manual. The T2 is the twin
manual version of the T1. They were all the direct competitor to the Korg
BX/CX range of the late 70's to the mid 80's. As for the B3 sound as good as the
Korg, but the Korg had the edge over the Crumar in that it had overdrive and at
the time a good onboard 'Leslie Sim', Crumar's (if you can find one with it
fitted) when it worked(which was nearly never) was utter sh*t, and was mono, but
in it's defence it did have a Leslie output socket for connecting to the real
thing.
Apart from being a twin manual the T2 also came with
a 18 note bass pedal set and the lower pre-sets were slightly
different.
The T-3 was a completely different beast to the T-1 and
T-2 before it.This was what was a so called 'Transportable Organ, for the
serious Pro.' as Crumar put it. It was a lot bigger that the T-2, and very heavy
to say the least.
The T-3 was one of there range of 'HOME' organs to be used
in pubs and clubs.
It was all the working from a 'Crumar 2003', with amp and
speakers built in, a 18 note pedalboard with a vol. pedal built-in with '2
switches to knock with the tip of you toe, one for fast/slow Leslie and the
other for the piano sustain.
There were loads of other things that were on this over
the older T's, but as I said it was a home organ, and they them self's were very
big.
The Organizer T-1 and T-2 were preceded by the 'Organizer'
and 'Organizer-2'.
The 'Toccata' was a 49 note 8 pre-set organ but with a
better built in Leslie than the 'T-1 and 2', the same circuit from the T-3 was
used in the Toccata, and was a good seller from '81 to the mid 80's. T-1 and T-2
were built between '78 and '83, T-3's from '81 to around the mid
'80's.
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The T1C I saw had 8 drawbars as well as simulated
leslie. It also
apparently has some additional bass sounds (similar
to a mini-moog and
others). ; Sounds like an interesting
combination. Additionally, the size of
them would be great for toting
around for Gigs! My questions are:
1) Is your T2 similar in it's
configuration ?
2) How faithful of a B3 reproduction are these machines
?
3) Does the Leslie simulator do a good job (stereo <-> mono)
?
4) Do you know the primary difference (thus difference in model
numbers!!!)
between the T1, T2 and T3 ?
Thanks for your
help!
GDub
