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    I am new to this forum and to organs. I recently inherited a Galanti f 50 and know nothing about it. I did a Web search but came up blank. Does anyone out there know anything about this piece? I doubt I will ever learn to play it so am also looking for a good home for it. I am in Melbourne Australia. I've no idea what it is worth, as I have seen them advertised secondhand at anything from $10 to $600. It seems to be in good condition and plays well, but its vast array of keys is intimidating. I am not out to make money from it, but would love to know more about it and to see it go to a good home.</p>

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    Crockett
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    Re: Can anyone tell me anything about the Galanti f 50



    The Galanti F50 isalso known as the GEM F50 (it was made by General Electro Music) and is an Italian organ from 1977. Pretty standard Italian organ sounds, very typical of the era. Like most Italian organs, it offered a lot for its selling price, but at the cost of some sound quality and, often,reliability. The Italians upped their game around this time, with later GEM's, Farfisas and so on having better quality.</P>


    Value, well that $10 figure is probably much more realistic than $600,and as always you get what you can for it, but with an organ of this age, be prepared to even give it away.</P>


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      Re: Can anyone tell me anything about the Galanti f 50

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      It seems to be in good condition and plays well, but its vast array of keys is intimidating. I am not out to make money from it, but would love to know more about it and to see it go to a good home.</P>


      cheers</P>


      Crockett
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      G'Day Mate,</P>


      Andy is right, the F50 is an Italian job from 1977 and it retailed here in Oz for $3995 when released that year. For a while Galanti/Gem organs were locally assembled in a small facility in Highett and I am pretty sure this F50 could have been one of them. The company that had the import/assembly business also had its own retail stores in Melbourne, Hobart &amp; Adelaide and supplied other states through independent dealers, the most active of which were in Queensland. (well, they are sort of different up there, and they still play away on Italian organs). The market penetration for Galanti in Melbourne was never up to much given the stiff competition from better productsex the USA and the emergence of some really great stuff from Yamaha &amp; Kawai Japan at prices even the Yanks had trouble with.</P>


      Since the newhome organ market in Melbourne is now over and the guy behind the Galanti/Gem operation passed away over 15 years ago I would follow Andy's advice in disposing of your instrument. A few things that may help regarding the sale of used instruments in Melbourne are:-</P>


      1. The well known and most respectedbrands are Lowrey, Hammond, Yamaha, Wurlitzer, Kawai &amp; Technics. Compared to these, Italian instruments are looked on as 2nd class citizens, so price the instrument accordingly.</P>


      2. The F50 is now over 30 years old, and predates digital technology, again affecting the price.</P>


      3. Check advertised prices for organs in the Trading Post &amp; Ebay Aust. websites, and note on Trading Post entries how long the instrument has been listed for. You will find on both these sites at the moment it is "open season" on Kawai -- heaps of used Kawais out there at throwaway prices. Use the photos on these sites as a guide to where yours may fit in the scheme of things. Another avenue of disposal may bethe free "Thursday Trader" that is available in supermarkets each week - there is a section for musical instruments.</P>


      4. If, as Andy suggests, it may be a "give it away situation", try offering it to an aged care facility - those places put organs &amp; pianos to good use, and having played in them often enough on the peninsula I have yet to meet an elderly person that doesn't like the sound of an organ played well. Similarly rehab hospitals use such instruments in their music therapy sessions because the pitch is constant, they can imitate many orchestral instrumentsand there is no need for tuning.</P>


      Hope this helps,</P>


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