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Elka Professional Soloist 505

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Elka made quite a number of different combo organs, most of the ones I've run across were marketed under the Unicord name. The Unicords say "Manufactured by Elka" on the name plate(Supposedly, Unicord eventually became Korg)

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tripedalhumanoid

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almost 5 years ago

Limited but has some cool sounds..

Did not use it that much yet..
apparently it has a Moog filter Button keyboard is not a common thing...

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Hawain guitar with LP Filter and some wow (resonance) is an awesome Bass sound, Telstar and cosmic are aslo favorites

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Keyboardist Rapper Composer

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Electronic Hip Hop Stage & Screen

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