Vintage Keys is a Recording Studio in Romsey, UK, run by Session Musician, Sound Engineer and Producer Steve Christie who trained in the mid 1990s at Air Lyndhurst Studios, London. We host a a large collection of working vintage electronic and acoustic keyboard instruments, synths and equipment.
Previous (and current) clients of note have included Mark Pritchard, Adam F, Cubeatz, Warp Records, Sunbeam Records. In the past, Steve has worked for Sir George Martin, Giles Martin, Tony Visconti, Hans Zimmer, John Williams etc, when working as an assistant engineer at Air Studios.
We also own our own record label called Vintage Keys Records.
Our videos set out to be informative, but without bombarding the viewer with over-technical descriptions.
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A visceral feast
I knew a guy with a Farfisa but then his mom gave it away.
doesn’t have reverbeo, can’t kick the reverb tank, no power on fun, no valve wiggle, no eeeeee … :(
Blur have a very haunting song called Optigan 1. I came here in search for what this keyboard looked like. Now I want one 😊
I had a Jen Pianotone in the 70s. Overdriven it produced a great sound that blended well with electric guitar in our band.
Wow yes I bet it did! I am looking for one of those
Wow.... so it's basically a guitar and a bass with keys, if you were playing them with a felt pick... uhhhh, ish...
Ondes with the show!
На самом деле, автор маэстро и у него заиграет даже дырявое ведро. Но и машинка стОит дороже своей цены - значительно дороже. Шикарный, настоящий синтезатор без дураков, и кстати, цены в торговле на него не случайно выше, чем на большинство сверкающих полифонических клонов.
Absolutely diabolical. Please more of this!!
I was busy when this was posted, then i forgot. Good episode as usual. This is actually on my list to make. Just gotta get around to it. Too bad a 6x8 wouldn't work....somehow I ended up with a bunch.
Thanks! That’ll be a Lowrey DSO or similar organ valves 6X8
That was fun. Thanks for showing me that one.
ENJOYEd=YOU HIGH LIGHTing THE SOUNDS= Thanks.
I picked up one of these a while ago - this is a great demo, thank you
I jusy tuned in, so I'm wondering if we're going to be regaled with some "Red River Rock" which is the largest claim to fame of the S6 over here. Used to have the LP, the jacket of which proudly dispkays that organ. Another oddball that i like is the very obscure Hammons Extra Voice... Which just didn't catch on very much... I think it was because of the name. And also because it was just a very weird keyboard for the people of that time. The monophonic follower in it though was pretty epic and extremely forward looking... It was no Novachord, mind you... The extra voice was a great organ, but the Novachord could have been brought by aliens!
That Rolling Easy is naughty.
I always think of the circus when I hear a happy colostomy. Toot toot!
You must be gay
I love your humor! Thank you for the videos
Thank you! :)
Sounds as good as most solid state Hammonds and definitely better than some. Seems like the weight's about the same. Love the hi-speed go-fast nerf bar.
Amazing. What a fine organ is that
Many thanks for your rendering of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 Allegro 14:04. I too was introduced to Bach through Walter (Wendy) Carlos in the early '70s. I still have two of those vinyl records.
Ahh thanks me too!
Thanks for this! We recently acquired two of these at our local makerspace, and I would like to implement an octave switch using your hack. How much total capacitance did you end up adding?
I'm not sure how interested I really am in vintage keyboards, but I feel like I have just met a new friend, so I have subscribed!
Ahh thank you! Welcome aboard! :)
I wonder who was the first person that took the piss out. I mean, I can't picture the scenario, but it had to have happened at least once. This is my late wife's channel, as i use it to upload our music and i'm not inclined to log out until i chsnge the password, which i always forget to do... but i find it kind of impish to leave strange comments as her, so someone will think she's strange and not so inert. I keep hoping she'll scold me from another dimension. She used to have FERRETS... and i thought it was a curiously humbling thing for her to take me to her room the first time to see it mostly occupied with a large chicken coop, which instead of chickens, held ferrets. And one time i was buying her ferrets medicine, as they don’t age gracefully... and were in a large box pet store... which has the big bulk litter bins in the middle of it. I remembered this while we were at the mall and bought some fake poo at the novelty store. She asked me why; and i said "you'll see!" So when we were in the pet store i casually flipped it in the big bulk litter bin... and we went to the ferret aisle and waited... a young man walked by the bin, who worked there... and got about ten feet past and halted.... turned around and doubled back... "aw HAIL no!" Suddenly there were three workers puzzling over how and what could have DONE this. They went to get the manager and when they cane back it was GONE. SOMEONE had taken the poo! Right now... We've come full circle.
Hahahaha that’s a lovely story! :) fake poo is one of the best things in life
@@VintageKeysStudio Gosh it's really easy to despise youtube. It always just gobbles up something I have written for a good fifteen minutes... Where did it go? Down the youtube gullett... It was actually a very lovely night. Spontaneous laughter all the way home. And later that night I believe we recorded a cover of satisfaction... Which is rather pedestrian for what we did but I had some ideas. It's actually on her channel here and I think it's quite good. I actually do what I believe that you do... Besides breathing and metabolizing... I restore and fix vintage noise makers... Of just about all varieties... Currently I have a 65 Rhodes, a pair of mellotrons! (I think the female is in estrus! Fingers crossed!!) About twenty leslie's... Some of them are actually cabinets! I'm particularly fond of the 147 And the Yamaha RA 100. It's kind of ashame that I mainly play guitar, unless you consider that i've got a guitar synth. Sometimes people come in and hear the band tearing up some rocking hammond... and just see me up on the stage with my guitar. It's kind of funny how most people watched me would just become jaded after a while. Like I can imagine at the water cooler... "So what did that guy do with his guitar last night?" "Well he played the drum solo to in a gadda da vida, And then he used it to read the first three chapters of the great gatsby. And then it turned into a drone and flew outside, while he sang "come back baby, come back" and it came back just in time for the last chord, and then he played reunited. You know. Just PLAYED it." I don't know if they open annexes of VV... but I'll probably be getting a shop in a few years, if that's ever a thing. I wholeheartedly support the stuff they do. Though they were not much help with my 65 Rhodes. I called up and talked to somebody and said. "Yeah i've got a sixty five roads and"- "no way! Really?" "Yea!" "Cool" "Do you guys have any parts that might..." "Gosh no." "OK. I feared that." But I got it all sorted. I actually have some fekt tips coming tomorrow. And when i'm done with the all those pens... I'm going to fix the keyboard! I feel like there's got to be some more interesting sounds in that sixty five. But of course to experiment on those is considered sacrilege... Which means i'm going to do that a lot! There's a mellotrin FB page that i'm on as well... And i've committed sacrilege about twelve times so far. And of course the worst of all. It all worked! Worked well! Which I suppose is not actually very like a Mellotron, or Chamberlain... The latter of which I've only heard will enrage or shock you. And that was a compliment... Courtesy of Tom Waits. But you know... Sometimes getting pissed off is the best time over the day. Not a particularly good day, of course... Well I suppose I will kibbutz on another video of yours soon! Seizure later!
"Go Now"!...
Is this tuned to A440? or something different? Sounds lovely.
Slightly flat I think - i compensate recording it using varispeed rather than mess with it too much as it sounds nice as it is
the best you are steve :)
Yummy!
A mixture of joy and sadness.
I ordered steak and you gave me a shrimpfisa! With a Hammond complex.
Дружище, ты один из немногих, кто доходчиво и понятно умеет представить товар в лучшем виде, красиво, интригующе. Любая фирма должна бы бегать за тобой с предложением стать главным её рекламным агентом, её лицом. Из короткого, буквально мимолётного и случайного знакомства с твоей презентацией Poly D понятно, что ты блестящий клавишник, знаешь об этом инструменте и умеешь на нём в сто раз больше, и должен, обязан с этим инструментом прославиться на весь мир. Лайк! Привет из России/Советского Союза😅
Thank you so much for your kind words!!! :)
The perfect baseball stadium rig hey man great vid 👍
Thanks 👍
Any examples of this on records? Joe Meek maybe?
I am not aware of anything particularly… anybody???
Really an uplifting presentation, even though it took place down on the floor ;-)!
Thank you kindly!
Made me think of Jamaica jerk off from yellow brick road. Particularly the percussion. I had a few old farfisa organs in my youth and played them until they died. Wish I had space now, I do but it’s the third floor and those old things aren’t light
How are you setting up the pre delay? Just copying the track and moving it back in daw?
Tube tremolo! Beautiful
Faceva cacare
Hey! I had that organ for 20 years or so. It's amazing!
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!
Can't beat a bit of Purple :)
Some of the percussion reminds me of the Kate Bush song Delius.
DE LI USSS!
Just one question, “how does your camera operator keep a straight face?”
6:39 Those strings could be mistaken for Eminent strings. Lots of string machines/synths/organs seem to have taken their cues from their circuitry.
Steve you get a like just for the belly dance belt display, I must be sick!
You should be thankful I didn’t wear my belly button jewel as well
We never used to get this during the organist entertains! Although to be fair it was a radio programme. Who knows perhaps mr Ogden put on much the same show for the microphone at the keys of the mighty Wurlitzer? Anyone else listen in, Radio 2 at 8pm (I think) on a Tuesday evening?
Beautiful ❤
Love the sound out of this thing!
Sounds awesome!
Looks like a Crumar Performer, another string synth from the '70s.
Great entertainment, keep them coming!
Thank you! :)