Lowrey organ

The Lowrey organ is named after its inventor, industrialist Frederick Lowrey the Chicago, said electronic organ.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Lowrey was the largest manufacturer of electronic organs. 1989 produced the Lowrey Organ Company Organ her millionth. By 2011, the Lowrey organs were produced in LaGrange Park, Illinois; 2011, it was announced that production is relocated to Malaysia.

The Lowrey organ differs from the Hammond organ, especially through the use of functions for automatic accompaniment. Although originally intended for home entertainment, it was used in the 1960s and 1970s by a number of rock bands. Garth Hudson, keyboardist and organist of The Band, played a Lowrey organ with many songs of the group. In the song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! by the Beatles, it is used to generate a fair mood. A somewhat surprising use of the Lowrey organ in the song Baba O'Riley had by The Who; recording starts with a 41 seconds continuous loop, which was played on a Lowrey organ and modified by a synthesizer sound. Mike Ratledge of the band Soft Machine used at times a Lowrey Holiday Deluxe instead of a Vox Continental. He played it with fuzz and an amplifier from Marshall Amplification.