Identify this Baldwin organ

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Hello all,</P>


This organ is currently on Dallas craigslist. Is this a later model? </P>



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[skippy]

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Hi Mark,</P>


This is the best match I can get with my Blue Book. Hope this helps.</P>


Have a musical day,</P>


Skippy</P>


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[skippy]

Re: Identify this Baldwin organ



Hi Mark,</P>


This is the best match I can get with my Blue Book. Hope this helps.</P>


Have a musical day,</P>


Skippy</P>


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[andyg]

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You beat me to it, Skip. I was fixing myself a drink and just not paying enough attention to the PC. Shame on me! [:$]</P>


Nice sounding organ, but I never cared for the sticky rocker tabs this series had. The theatre version of this was nicer as it had proper tabs, but it was a bit on the big side.</P>


One of the last real Baldwins.</P>


Andy</P>
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[jbird604]

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Mark,</P>


I agree with Skippy. Looks like a 234 to me. In Dallas? Hmmmmm.</P>


THEORETICALLY that is asomewhat more organ than your Hammond 820, and far more than your Gulbransen President at home. Lots of bright sounds, rich strings, big orchestral and brassy solo stops, exotic tremulants and such. Very theatrical, but enough sparkle and oomph to play in church.</P>


BUT . . . not so great a service history. The tone generationis a verycomplex quasi-digital system, and that sort of thing was not terribly advanced or reliable in 1983. I know of two of these in my service area, one in a church and one in a home. Both have had various intermittent problems, failure to come on at times, noises, pops, etc. The one in a church is unreliable enough that they decided a couple of years ago to NEVER TURN IT OFF (!!) . . . it is left on 24/7 and that's worked for them!</P>


So, I'm not sure I'd jump on it unless it's quite cheap. It would be a whole lot more fun to play with than your old Gulbransen, especially. But I don't know about putting it at church. Might be an invitation to trouble. Besides, it's not that much of an upgrade over the 820. Doesn't even have AGO pedals, and you really can make a lot of good sounds mixing your drawbars and those rather primitive "organ" stops on the 820.</P>


You didn't ask my opinion, but it was free anyway.</P>


John</P>

[james]

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Mark,</P>


I would leave this one ALONE!!!!! A service tech told me the contacts and those small narrow stops tabs or whatever they are called are a pain the in b***. It is best to have some organs that work than to have one that is prone to all kinds of problems such as keys not sounding, stops not sounding, and features not working properly at all.</P>
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I have found that most any organ is fun to diddle daddle with for the various things it can do, but when it comes to good sound, and proper playing I personally want something reliable. I remember some Baldwin's in the 230 Series that had tabs, and they really had some big tone and the bass pedals would shake the rafters. Also there was not breaking back in the lower octave on the keyboards, they went right on down bass sounding such as my old Baldwin 48C church model.</P>
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James</P>

[skippy]

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You beat me to it, Skip. I was fixing myself a drink and just not paying enough attention to the PC. Shame on me! [:$]</P>


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Andy, even a blind chick finds the odd corn. [:P]</P>
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Mark, you can download the "Organ Blue Book" here for free: <SPAN lang=EN-AU></P>


</SPAN><U><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN lang=EN-AU>http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/05/official-organ-blue-book.html</U></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>


Cheers,</P>


Skippy</P>