I’ve tried registering several times with this forum, but to no avail. They just wont have me. Registration requires a moderator to review your application before you can post, and my application has been waiting for months with nothing even so much as a whisper. Has my account been denied? I’ve no idea, and emails to the webmaster ([email protected]) asking about my account seem to have disappeared into the ether.
This website was once a fantastic thriving community of enthusiasts. Originally developed by Margaret Falkner – a truly great figure on the UK home organ scene, and a huge inspiration to many people. Sadly, she passed away several years ago. Remembered by many – such a shame I cannot add to this post to her memory.
Unfortunately the market of the home electronic organ is in a bad state. Manufacturers insist on producing organs for the elderly, the incompetent, or people who just don’t want to put in any time or effort to improve their playing. Take the absolutely dreadful Yamaha AR100 and AR80. For a start, their cabinets look low quality sticky back plastic covered chipboard – hardly what you would expect for the circa £8000 you would have had to have paid when they came on to the market. A console that is just so full of automatic accompaniments that it is more difficult to switch them off and just play something simple. Sound quality that is so horrible. And to top it all off, a speaker system that is more powerful than a professional instrument such as the EL90.
Manufacturers should be targeting and encouraging younger people to buy these instruments, not people that wont be here in 20 years. So sad.