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Best known for their "tuck-and-roll" padded amps, Bud Ross's Kustom also made a couple of combo organs during the late 60's and early 70's. This model was available from 1968-1970.

The organ measures 40" x 40" x 21" and weighs approximately 200 lbs. The combo has a built-in K200A amp and a preamp so you could plug in other instruments too. The organ signal feeds directly into the power amp, while the preamp is for external instruments only.

Like other Kustom gear, the combo organ came in seven different colors: basic black and six sparkly colors from the Naugahyde "Zodiac" series—blue, silver, charcoal, cascade, gold, and red.

Best known for their "tuck-and-roll" padded amps, Bud Ross's Kustom also made a couple of combo organs during the late '60s and early '70s. This model was available from 1968-1970.

The organ measures 40" x 40" x 21" and weighs approximately 200 pounds. The combo has a built-in K200A amp and a preamp used to plug in other instruments. The organ signal feeds directly into the power amp, while the preamp is for external instruments only.

The combo organ came in seven different colors—basic black, as well as six sparkly colors from the Naugahyde "Zodiac" series: blue, silver, charcoal, cascade, gold, and red.

Best known for their "tuck-and-roll" padded amps, Bud Ross's Kustom also made a couple of combo organs during the late 60's and early 70's. This model was available from 1968-1970.

The organ measures 40" x 40" x 21" and weighs approximately 200 lbs. The combo has a built-in K200A amp and a preamp so you could plug in other instruments too. The organ signal feeds directly into the power amp, while the preamp is for external instruments only.

Like other Kustom gear, the combo organ came in seven different colors: basic black and six sparkly colors from the Naugahyde "Zodiac" series—blue, silver, charcoal, cascade, gold, and red.

An idiophone by definition, the Celeste features a set of graduated tuned metal bars similar to a glockenspiel. When a key is struck, a hammer makes contact with the metal bar, and the sound is amplified by the resonator tube above the note.

An idiophone by definition, the Jenco Celeste features a set of graduated tuned metal bars similar to a glockenspiel. When a key is struck, a hammer makes contact with the metal bar, and the sound is amplified by the resonator tube above the note.

Jenco was a manufacturer of percussion instruments based in Decatur, Illinois. Some of the instruments that they manufactuered include xylophones, celestas, celestettes, marimbas, vibra-bells, glockenspiels, timpani, orchestra bells, and tubular chimes.

An idiophone by definition, the Celeste features a set of graduated tuned metal bars similar to a glockenspiel. When a key is struck, a hammer makes contact with the metal bar, and the sound is amplified by the resonator tube above the note.

A combo organ with two 49-key keyboards, designed with a focus on portability for live tour. Equipped with 28 tone levers, the player is free to mix and match trumpets, strings and other voices. The area on the keyboard where the black and white key colors are reversed can be used for playing bass notes.

Rocky Mount Instruments (RMI), a subsidiary of the Allen Organ Company, was established in the mid 1960s to design, manufacture, and market electronic instruments. The first RMI product was released in 1967. It was revolutionary in its abandonment of technologies employed by other electronic keyboards; strings, reeds, or tines were replaced entirely by electronics. Although not entirely convincing in its replication of a natural piano, RMI instruments' distinctively clear, percussive, and bright voice appealed to rock, pop, and jazz players.

Rocky Mount Instruments (RMI), a subsidiary of the Allen Organ Company, began producing the 300 Series Electra-piano and Harpsichord in 1967. As with earlier RMI instruments, the Electra-piano featured an oscillator for each key. It uses an LC oscillator to generate the sound, as it produced a stable frequency that was not prone to drift. The signal is then run through a series of filters in order to produce an envelope resembling that of a piano. The Electra-piano also had an "organ mode" that allowed each note to sustain indefinitely instead of decay like a piano, and an "accenter" that added a percussion effect to the start of each note being played.

The original 300A (1967) and B (1969) models had 61 keys (G to C). The 300A featured a two tone blue-over-black vinyl exterior, while the 300B was all black. The 368 was introduced in 1972 and offered 68 keys, extending the bass end of the keyboard by more than half an octave. It was the best-selling Electra-piano. The 368X (1974) was a 368 housed in a molded plastic case instead of the previously used tolex-covered plywood. The 68D was a touch sensitive version of the 368X; it was made to order and few were produced.

The Cembalet is a type of electro-mechanical piano built by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany from the late-1950s to the late 1960s, and designed by Ernst Zacharias. It was a reed-based electric piano intended for home use, and the first keyboard produced by Hohner as a piano-like instrument rather than an instrument having the sustained note of an organ. It was adopted by popular musicians for recording and performance in the early 1960s because it was portability and easy to amplify electronically.

The Weltmeister Claviset 200 was developed by the Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke company in 1963. Sound was generated by plucked metal reeds which were electrically scanned. Using toggle switches, nine timbres and three vibrato intensities were selected. The instrument is similar to the Cembalet manufactured by Hohner in Trossingen and was very popular in the GDR.

The Weltmeister Claviset is an electric piano that is somewhat similar to the Hohner Pianet and Cembalet in function, but with different filter/sound tabs and pickups.

The Claviset was made by the long-established accordion and harmonica manufacturer Weltmeister in Klingenthal, formerly East Germany. It is the only known Eastern European electric piano. Unlike Hohner instruments of the time, it uses electromagnetic pickups. The later models are especially rare, and unlike the earlier ones, have a sustain function and pedal.

The Weltmeister Claviset is an electric piano made by the long-established accordion and harmonica manufacturer Weltmeister in Klingenthal, formerly East Germany. It is the only known Eastern European electric piano. The later models are especially rare, and unlike the earlier ones, have a sustain function and pedal.

The Claviset is somewhat similar to the Hohner Pianet and Cembalet in function, but with different filter/sound tabs and pickups. Unlike Hohner instruments of the time, the Claviset uses electromagnetic pickups.

The Welmeister Claviset is an electric piano that is somewhat similar to the Hohner Pianet and Cembalet in function, but with different filter/sound tabs and pickups.

The Claviset was made by the long-established accordion and harmonica manufacturer Weltmeister in Klingenthal, formerly East Germany. It is the only known Eastern European electric piano. Unlike Hohner instruments of the time, it uses electromagnetic pickups. The later models are especially rare, and unlike the earlier ones, have a sustain function and pedal.

The Weltmeister Claviset is an electric piano that is somewhat similar to the Hohner Pianet and Cembalet in function, but with different filter/sound tabs and pickups.

The Claviset was made by the long-established accordion and harmonica manufacturer Weltmeister in Klingenthal, formerly East Germany. It is the only known Eastern European electric piano. Unlike Hohner instruments of the time, it uses electromagnetic pickups. The later models are especially rare, and unlike the earlier ones, have a sustain function and pedal.