What follows now is the complete 1957 brochure for the Gulbransen Model B organ. Do not ask me my opinion of this kind of organist replacement. They also manufacture a digital hymn performer that is in use in many churches. Gulbransen is now a division of Mission Bay Investments producing Elka organs Gulbransen eventually merged with Seeburg, and then the entire operation was absorbed by C.B.S. This organ has a true theatre organ sound. Two Isomonic Leslie speakers came as standard equipment with the organ. It is a horseshoe theatre console with two sets of This consists of two 61-note manuals and a 25-note pedalboard. The most famous Gulbransen organ is the Rialto (Model K). They used the last letter of the GreekĪlphabet to imply that this was the last word in sustain control. It offers a wide range of sustain varying from a very short reverberation to the long fading away sound of a chime. What is Omega anyhow? I know Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet, the letter “U”. First automatic rhythm (actually Seeburg, with whom Gulbransen eventually merged)Ī special note on that mysteriously named Omega control.First self-contained Leslie speaker system.Gulbransen pioneered several innovations that became standard in the industry and are listed here: The amplifiers still operated with vacuum tubes (Rodgers produced the first all-transistor, or solid-state organ In these early transistor instruments, only the tone generators were transistorized. This was the Model B (Model 1100), a spinet that was the first transistor organ in the industry. In July 1957, Gulbransen introduced its first electronic organ. Their trademark of a baby operating the pedals of a player piano with his hands was well known. The Gulbransen Company began operation in 1904 producing pianos and reed organs. (Updated with All Color pictures May 2006)
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