From dwalker@ou.edu Thu Apr 03 11:39:52 2003
Subject:RE: Old Yamaha Clone

We've got a decent soundcheck time set aside, I've got a spare tier
available for my stand, and I'll have my Alesis anyway, so I figure I've
got nothing to lose. Most of the writeups I saw on harmony central
about the sk-20 seem to indicate that the drawbar tone is passable, and
it's mainly lacking in the warmth department. I'm thinking I'll just
bring my Bellari tube pre to crunch it up a little bit and go for it.

Anyway, I'll let you all know how it goes. Heck, if the results are
decent, maybe I'll be able to buy it from him cheap, so I could at least
get into some drawbars until I can save up for the electro (it'll
probably be the electro3 by the time I'm ready!). It wouldn't take much
to improve on the Alesis in the organ department...

Thanks for the info!

-Daniel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ynottnaro [mailto:ynottnaro@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:28 AM
> To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CWSG] Old Yamaha Clone
>
> It's probably the YC series, but I could be totally
> wrong. You should maybe go to his place and scope it
> out rather than relying on it for a gig for a few
> reasons: if it's not maintained or hasn't been fired
> up for a while, you could be in for a surprise; if you
> don't like the tone, you'll be in trouble (don't
> recall it sounding particularly Hammondish, but lots
> of folks used em in the 70s). But hey, you might
> actually LIKE IT!
>
> T
> --- Daniel Walker wrote:
> > Hey Clonewheelers,
> >
> > I'm sitting in with my boss's cover band on Friday.
> > Should be a fun gig
> > - the setlist includes a lot of favorite tunes of
> > mine that I never get
> > to play with "the younger generation" - some Paul
> > Simon, Eric Clapton,
> > Tom Petty, Three Dog Night, Cat Stevens, and (in
> > what will probably be
> > my moment of the evening) "Love the One You're
> > With."
> >
> > Anyway, I'm currently a poor college student and, as
> > such, have not yet
> > purhcased the Electro2 73 that I lovingly caress in
> > the keyboard room at
> > the local music store (Norman Music Center in
> > Norman, OK, if there are
> > any Oklahoma lurkers on here that have been looking
> > for one to demo -
> > great shop, they also sell vintage Hammonds and
> > Leslies whenever the
> > keyboard guy can hustle them up - they're also a
> > dealer for Leslie).
> >
> > Anyway, I digress. Organ sounds are a concern for
> > me; the best I have
> > is the tweaked-to-death organ sounds in my Alesis
> > QS-8, which I trigger
> > from an el cheapo unweighted Yamaha PSR-something.
> > After sharing lots
> > of hammond and leslie stories with the guitar player
> > (who used to own a
> > C3 and 122 back in the day) after the rehearsal, he
> > mentioned that he
> > has an old Yamaha keyboard at home that attempts to
> > be a clone; he said
> > it had "a set of drawbars on it" and a leslie
> > connector on the back. He
> > said he'd be glad to bring it (I think I impressed
> > him by being able to
> > play "Whiter Shade of Pale" complete with
> > appropriate leslie changes and
> > counterlines).
> >
> > My questions to the vast resource that is the
> > clonewheel collective
> > brain:
> >
> > What is this thing?
> > Should I tell him to bring it to the gig?
> > Is there anything else that would be useful to know
> > about the synth?
> > Does anyone have any recordings of it?
> >
> > This is my first big question to the group. Thanks
> > in advance for your
> > help!
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Walker
> >
>
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