The huge keyer boards are four stacked PCBs (solo, solo2, accomp and unified tibias). Left: Keyer boards, fed from divider tone generator (right). Upper left: Fantom Fingers keyers and arpeggiator logic. Lower right: 3 channel amplifier and power supply. The big stacked boards in the middle are the tone generator and organ keyers. They can be played either from the Solo ord Accomp keyboard.īack side of the Cinema3. The reed (sawtooth) ranks of the upper manual and the tabs for the piano circuit, called Fantom Fingers.The Fantom Fingers have their own keyer circuit with variable systain and 5 stops. The single rhythms can be combined to create new patterns. Fantom fingers is Baldwin's contribution to the One-Finger-Play for laymens, useable is the arpeggiator which reacts to every crooked chord. The rhythm accompaniment allows the combination of styles and instruments, it is fun to play with. It does not have a mechanical Leslie, but a lush Chorus circuit with quite a lot of switches andf possibilites. What does really turn this organ into a theatre organ is the extraordinary tremolo effect. There is a 16" brass sound which reminds me on the symphonizer wave shape sound of the early Lowreys. Pedal mechanics does not convince me a lot, a bit fragile but it does its work.
There is an own circuit for the piano rank with polyphonic percussion (percussion can be disabled, to get additional organ ranks), great. Sawtooth ranks are added by 3 octave and are nice too (Böhm Orchester has 5 octaves sawtooth and sounds much more like rectangle waves.) Tibia filters are twice per octave and sound very fine. The wiring of all footages are done on several huge printed circuit boards. Inside are the TOS divider generator and electronic key switching circuits. Keyboard action is pretty nice, I was surprised, that the keyboard make is quite the same as on the Dr. Two rows of tabs form spectacular horse shoe, alas many tab switches are rhythm selectors for the beat box only. This rare American organ is extremely heavy due to the massive wood construction.
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