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Picked this little devil up last night. Farfisa Professional P222. Killer sounding cheap organ drones. I've been wanting access to Farfisa sounds ever since the first time I listened to American Analog Set. I'm not sure how this model compares to the classic Farfisa compact, but to my untrained ears it seems to nail those sharp biting tones.

Wish I was a proper player, I can only form basic chords and stuff. I've been figuring out Incense and Peppermints and Hello, I Love You, haha... gotta start with some classics.

PS- can anyone help me understand the whole "footage" thing? I can hear what the switches do, but it's hard to understand... it seems like the switches with fractions (5 1/3, 2 2/3, 1 1/3, etc.) add a sort of harmony overtone where the others are octaves. Is that so?

I can't help you there Dave, but man that's a cool keyboard!

Cool--that looks like fun to mess with....I never find stuff like that.

fuck yeah, that is badass

Dave wrote: I've been figuring out Incense and Peppermints and Hello, I Love You, haha... gotta start with some classics.

Other good beginner keyboard tunes: 96 Tears, Telstar. Easy to work out, fun to play.

Dave wrote:PS- can anyone help me understand the whole "footage" thing? I can hear what the switches do, but it's hard to understand... it seems like the switches with fractions (5 1/3, 2 2/3, 1 1/3, etc.) add a sort of harmony overtone where the others are octaves. Is that so?

Cool score! The footages correspond to church organ pipe lengths. 8' is the actual note you play on the keyboard. 16' is an octave lower, 4' an octave higher. You can work out the other intervals yourself . This is basically what things like the HOG or the POG, I forget which, do to your guitar tones.

Here's some info on that model, BTW:
http://www.combo-organ.com/Farfisa/Prof ... /index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://ktopits.com/bandpro.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Orang Goreng wrote:Here's some info on that model, BTW:
http://www.combo-organ.com/Farfisa/Prof ... /index.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://ktopits.com/bandpro.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cool, yeah I've been readiong combo organ heaven for years and I did come across that Topits guy's site, a coulpe solid resources for this machine.

Just figured out "Autumn Sweater" by You La Tengo, fuck me this thing NAILS those tones on the head.

I've never been so enamoured with my Behringer VB-2 knockoff, the swirl it makes with the Farfisa and some reverb is epic.

Time to start figuring out some arrangements for some of my own shit... I feel like a 13 year old kid figuring out Enter Sandman on my imitation Stratocaster, haha.

Awesome score man!