Cool Links

 

No newsworthy products so far, but hey, let us know!

Meanwhile here are some cool places to visit:

Vintage Keys issue1
Yes, it's still here. This was the first issue of Vintage keys, and it's now the first in an online archive for all to read, whenever and wherever.

www.combo-organ.com
Want to be a Combonaut? Combo Organ Heaven is your launchpad. Robert MacNutt has built a unique resource, cataloguing everything from the popular Vox Continental to the strange padded-naugahyde Kustom Kombo, the red-and-black striped Magnus 3D, the futuristic Cordovox/Moog "White Elephant" and of course the legendary LennyTone.

www.clavinet.com
Clavinet by name, but this company is rapidly acquiring a reputation as the on-line home of all Hohner vintage keyboards, due to its phenomenal knowledge base and range of innovative spare parts, including Clavinet strings and humbucking pickups, plus "sticky hammers" for ailing Pianets.

www.hallofelectricpianos.com
OK, I had to give my own site a plug! But if you want to know what a Baldwin Combo Harpsichord looks like, when Selmer patented its Pianotron, or who was responsible for the first electric piano (a Nobel prize-winning Prussian chemist, as it happens) you probably won't find out anywhere else.

lennyg47.tripod.com
Executive Editor Lenny G has produced this fascinating site, featuring images and sound samples of lesser-known European electric pianos made by Hohner, Selmer and the East-German manufacturer Weltmeister.

www.ezracharles.com
Interviewed in Issue 1, Texan blues pianist and bandleader Ezra Charles has a dark secret - he used to be Charles Helpinstill, inventor of the eponymous piano pickup and maker of the world's best electric grand piano. This is his band's site.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/felinedream/boards/boards.htm
Completely loopy but strangely informative site dedicated to vintage gear used by eccentric UK duo The Feline Dream.


Simon Beck