Eminent P275 Organ with Solina String Ensemble built in!
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- Eminent P275 series 5 organ with Solina strings demonstration from Steve Christie.
Music improvisation by Steve Christie
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Hi Steve!
I'm glad that you're ok and back on track!!!
Thanks very much :)
As of today I have started my studies as a Christie method student and have learned 20,000 songs!
Well done! Very pleased to hear it! :)
I worked for the company (main brand: Eminent) that produced these organs, between 1981 and 1983. They have a FB-page too.
Wow that’s amazing! Thanks for the info :)
Please do share our video on their Facebook page if you think it would be of interest.
It's a pleasure to see you back, Steve!
Thanks very much! :)
I love the first bit, I keep seeing that same ad
I seen those annoying YT ads, play 10000 songs with only 3 chords or something. Has to be a scam.
Next week we gonna get 50% more notes for twice the price. This will revolutionise my music production and I will know how to tweak all the drawbars. We will become unbound by pitch and our music talent shall be avenged.
I started laughing at the goofy sounds coming from that organ! What a cool instrument.
All kinds of old prog in that sound. Kansas or Eloy come to mind, Camel as well.
Glad your organ is fixed and your organ is fixed too.
Thank you!
I find these videos of Steve playing with his organ strangely relaxing.
Yes, Steve playing his organ strangely, IS relaxing.
My grandparents bought an eminent organ for me, it was a larger model with more preset registrations and sounds. Telstar was a favourite, sounded like the synth on wonderful Christmas time, one of the arpeggio accompaniments sounded like the one on Freddie Mercury song Living on my own. You could mix the rhythms by pressing multiple buttons at once. I wish I had the space for it after my grandad passed away, noone wanted It and It had to be dumped. It would only fit on a large van and needed at least 3 strong people to lift it.
I think I know the model you mean - such a shame
Very close to great. If you ever get an Eminent 310 Unique, I´ll be delighted.
Hello Steve, that Eminent Solina 275 has amazing sounds and capabilities and of course when it is played by a Virtuoso like you !!
The idea of using a wired ribbon and the pressure of the keys as substitution for the missing bass pedal is Really Great !!
Thank you very much, Jesus! All the best Steve
Highly appreciate the piano lesson in this episode. I will now spend the rest of the evening practicing one note improvisation
Excellent! Do let me know how you get on
Every single setting sounds great and musical.
Witnessing the start of something we could call "The One Note Is All It Takes Movement" really was an honour ;-)! A pleasure to watch & listen the sound shaping possibilities of this vintage organ. The rhythm section has some drumcomputer appearance, not only because of the retrig bar. Thanks for sharing :-)!
Thank you Curtis! I hope all is well :)
Very nice Video my dear Friend 👍👈👀🎶🎵 Warmest Greetings from Germany to UK, Happy Weekend 😊
Thank you! You too!
9:27 "Surfin' Bird" - The Garbagemen
I've got the 310 Unique Theater and I've got to tell you, I'm a bit jealous of these Hammond-esque tibia section, mine only got 16', 8' and 4', no lit buttons or automated accompaniment, but I can see that there are a few more limitations regarding mixing the sound together.
Anyhow, great video mate!
I'M ON MY 5th ORGAN/PIANO WHATEVER. STARTED WITH A CANADIAN 'BELL' PUMP (1913) THEN KORG, YAMAHA,HAMMOND,LOWREY
WATCH YOU WHEN EVER I SEE YOU COME UP.........LOVE YA BABY ! YOU ARE ACTUALLY LIKE ZACKERY THE GOUL FROM A 60s AFTERNOON
KIDS COMEDY SHOW.
Ahh that’s brilliant! Thanks so much for introducing me to Zacherley!!! I love it! Not heard of him before - watching now! :)
What a fascinating instrument! Fantastic demonstration!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It will be interesting to see how the separation goes, as it would save space, for starters
Oh and I really like that whining square synth sound (no. 2)!!!
If you have an hour this week, you can learn a hundred songs on the piano, by learning just 4 chords! These! Can you feel the love tonight?
If you switch it back on and off after unplugging it, that will discharge most of the capacitors so you don't get a sneaky electric shock.
I remember being in a hotel in Ibiza with my parents in the 1980s and some of the evening entertainment was a chap playing one of these Eminent organs. For some reason I want to say it was very shiny black. Was there a black, triple manual model?
By the way, the hats at 26.40 sound very much like a horse going clippety clop when your mic is on 😀
Really sounds quite beautiful! Thanks Steve!
My pleasure!
Superb demo of a wonderful organ
Glad you liked it!
You certainly know how to have fun on a Friday night!
If you'd have asked me if I'd ever be watching a looney guy playing with his organs, I couldn't have imagined it 😂
Love your sense of humour man.
Your system should keep the slugs out from your keys too!
Thank you haha - those pesky slugs…
I was in Roxy Music tributeband Re-make/Re-model….a no brainer sir….. check our live Ladytron, Streetlife attached. Great Eminent demo! Y the way that brass sound like the Solina String Ensemble brasssound and gives that SSE modulation. Nice
Very cool!
If the other manuals work in the same way with a ribbon cable out, I imagine it'd be fairly simple to MIDI-ify this!
Yes they do!
Just excellent !
Nice one Steve, having watched the start I was distracted by the offer of food, and on my return I could have sworn you said 'slug tape', thinking I had misheard some new electronics terminology I was surprised to hear you mention it again. I am looking forward to the next installment where I assume all will be revealed. I am a little disappointed that you aren't able to salvage a peddle board or perhaps even better still make one from a timber panel and those big colorful buttons that they use on 'modern' one armed bandits laid out in a keyboard pattern placed down where the old pedals were. They could light up when you press them too, for the full 'dancing disco feet' experience, come on you know you want to do it! btw The words you were looking for were ribbon cable :0)
Haha yes thank you - the slug modification will be presented soon!
Jean Michel Jarre used an Eminent organ on Oxygéne. The 512 if i’m not mistaken. Correction: it was a 310.
Yes, and Oxygene was inspired by Popcorn which he played in the video.
organ from the 80's .
Ingenious idea! :)
I have a Solina A-211 and there's not a lot going on in the bottom half either. I have 3 organs in my room and they take up so much room. I might try to get rid of the bottom half too.
Welcome back!!!
Thank you!
😂😂😂 the first 2 minutes are priceless
23:18 Sounds like the Donkey Kong bass line
Ladytron!
CONGRATULATIONS!!! You win a packet of polos :)
@@VintageKeysStudio forward them to Andy Mackay!
But not in C minor, like this. Sounds like Ladytron meets Runaway.
Roxy Music-Lady Tron 9:44
Nice Ridley method 😂
Good intro but mull of kintyre was Denny Lane,not John Lennon. Love the eminent but out of my price range. I do however have the Behringer solina, vc340 and the Waldorf streichfet which satisfy my craving for string synths. Hope you are fully recovered alter hernia op.
Thank you!
👋 Hello. Can I ask if you have any knowledge/experience with Behringer's version of the Moog Taurus bass pedals? I'd love to have a good set of pedals but the Taurus is just more than im willing to spend on them.
@@michaelknight4041 As yet I don’t have the Taurus. I have watched lots of videos and it sounds really good, I do intend purchasing one eventually, but the stalling point for me at the moment is the price of a midi pedal board. Why the hell Uli couldn’t have made it with the pedals like the original I do not know. I’ve been researching but as yet I can’t find a pedal board new or secondhand at a price I like. I own 11 behringer synths and hope eventually to own every one they make. Quality is great and so is the sound, and the price point.
@@kentaccordionist Thank you for the info! I think I also saw the one you are talking about that has buttons instead of pedals. Unexceptable! 😤
I didn't know 'hernia' could be used as an adjective.
when video about Hammond solovox
LOL great intro and video as always
Thanks 😅
Move the faders 40 times each. They will start working silently again. It will clean the contacts.
If you can find a Yamaha organ. There are some that are very close to a CS80.
I would like a button or t-shirt that says "The Christie Method" with an illustration of Steve wearing a tuxedo and playing a grand piano. Now that would be a conversation starter!
Them: "What's this "Christie Method"?
Me: "Oh it's very fancy. I don't think you'd understand.
Them: "Please tell me! I want to know everything about it!"
What a fantastic idea haha! Watch this space!
He's got to be either holding up one finger, or playing a single note on the piano whilst looking meaningfully into the camera, single eyebrow raised.
That's a tee shirt I'd wear at any wedding or funeral!
You can do a lot of Jim Steinman with one note
Synthe1's release resonance demands nothing less than to be weilded with inappropriate amounts of articulation. I love that this organ doesn't sound like just another organ.
It’s lovely isn’t it?
Preciso de uma tecla "do" inteira do Electone Yamaha
Eminent had 1 problem. within the organisation there were 2 camps. the classical (eminent omegan: now eminent lelystad) and the populair organist site. The last one lost the battle cause the couldnt jump into the keyboard market at time.... otherwise they would have better products than yamaha and roland................ They were ahead of their times and the sound of their bigger organs are fenomenal. (john mann organist : search for him on youtube) .. But the christ-reformed part of the factory left the building and started their own factory at lelystad, and are producting now organs in a tradition for over 30 years. Slighty better than 30 years ago. (not really renewed) . And have now also a hauptwerk division. Organs are good (sturdy) and technically good. but hanged in time.
u need your show on bbc
Hope you're feeling well, after your hernia op.
Those things suck!
Thanks yes much better thank you :)
Sounds like Blakes7
I'm all in favour of the "One Note" movement but, if it catches on, then before long there's going to be at least 88 different factions all claiming to be the one true method and causing endless internet flame wars. The P275 sounds good though.
Haha
Elka 707 is pretty funkt too.
In the ancient times our instruments were brown. Like wood and earth. And Venilia.
One days someone thought they should be black. Like death.
We all know brown will be back and will rule the World again, comrads! #SpaceAgeRockWillPrevail
😁
How does the basic sound compare to that of the Riha?
Not as complex as the Riha as there are less stops/drawbars
@@VintageKeysStudio That I understand. The 275 is not as top of the line for Solina as hte Orchetstra fro Riha. I however wondered if you can hear any difference in the basic tonecolours/creamyness etc. in hte studio if one compares similar settings and preset tabs.
I had one of these. But was fooked beyond fookdom. So off to the tip it went. Pained me.
Sadly, there are IC’s inside this and many organs of the period that once they have gone wrong, there is little hope that replacements can be found
@@VintageKeysStudio yes. I also liked the smell of mine. There’s something about old eminent stuff. I now get my solina fix with a Waldorf STVC. I shall now sign off by saying… “four chords”!
Did that piano lesson hurt you as much as it hurt me? 😁
Please don't chop off your organ. Many have done the same and regretted it!
Funny, as soon as I said it I thought ‘Oh no, I just can’t…’
You forgot the most obvious one, "One Note Samba".
A very louché start, good sir