While settling down for the evening , last glass of bubby .. on FMR as selection of music .. unmistakably played on the lousy Lowry organ..
A bit of history .. the first available " electronic" organs available to home use were Hammond .. they used a form of tonewheel mechanically driven to generate the basic keys , then tabs bring on basic known sound timbres then thereafter one could pull overtones and undertones and harmonics , add brightness etc via drawbars to the point that they all almost stumbled over each other ... to this day hammonds are still a favourite in the jazz circle cos of the fun they can have with them ... The lousy Lowry was next ... a poor electronicaly driven version .. just did not have the airiness or capability .. and their dull sound is unmistakable ... just does not do it .. they even had them fittted with the rotating speakerbox to add verve ... I'm sure it apears in one or two pics in the rec club.hall . anyhow if there was one person i remember as a child that somehow had the talent to add some life to a lousy Lowry was a woman by the name of Pam Touhey .. hope i got the spelling right ... she without saying too much , like so may talented people throughout the history of humankind had her own host of problems and did not always fit in or conform to society " norms " but so what and what the heck ... she was a natural talent ... musically basic training but a total rebel due to the fact that she could just play by ear ... anything they wanted her to play they just ahd to play out to her .. after a few tries she would have memorised it and could play it by memory .. and yes bring the lousy Lowry to life by pure unfettered self learnt technique .. she played a lot at dances in the old rec club hall in the 60's .. but most memorable was her night after night performances at the little theatre .. the play " The Boyfriend " a musical ( Mike ask about than one ) ... I recall the two Heeris ( spelling again ) sisters big girls being in the play .. well I sat for a couple of nights front row so could watch in fascination as this talented soul did magic in providing the music sans any sheet music .. she just took the cue and did it each song ... hands flowing over the keyboards and feet at work on the pedalbkeys .. totally absorbed and enjoying every moment of her musical escape from the world tha was just too harsh for her .. oops me gone on for too long but yes a tribute to a talent ... cheers margarita