Anyone Else Own A Guitorgan?

[L Nutter]

I've got one, anyone else?

[crunchee]

I don't, I'm waiting for a Guitorgan donor.

Teisco Del Rey (AKA Dan Forte, he used to write the "Off The Wall" column in Guitar Player Magazine years ago) uses one:

[hamerhead]

Guitar-shaped penis?!? I wish.

[veatch]

Had a Roland 808/300 years ago. That's about as close as I have been....

[Steve Haynie]

Guitar-shaped penis?!? I wish.

Mine's a 12 string bass!

On a serious side, that guitorgan is really cool.

[BlueRedWhite]

WTF is a guitorgan??

Sounds like a proctology instrument...

guitar covered with alligator skin??

[JohnnyB]

Guitar-shaped penis?!? I wish.

… or the other way around:

[django49]

That very early guitar-synth was fun to play with. Not sure how well they held up. Closest I got to owning was was a Roland 707/700, I think it was.

[Ethan]

Just buy a POG!

[Bloozguy]

I almost bought a non-working one a few years ago...until I saw what was inside:

I decided it could have easily turned into "the project from hell."

[L Nutter]

I've got one that mostly works - but I just don't play it anymore. I do use a POG2 now to get the same effects.

In its day it was very cool! I was just wondering if there was a Guitorgan contingent among the Hamer fans - to share tips / parts / etc.

[rj2858]

Guitar-shaped penis?!? I wish.

… or the other way around:

I'm really glad I don't share the same "shaft to balls" ratio, with your picture!

Was this the impetus for the creation of relaxed fit jeans?

"Wango Tango" indeed!

[gorch]

That's the Ben Wah guit.

[veatch]

The Guitorgan was an intriguing instrument. I think you are the first real person that I've met that actually has one. Back in the days of Usenet, there was a group called rec.music.makers.guitarsynth, or something like that. Not sure what happened to that group - they're likely out in the interwebs somewhere. Some smart folks there on this stuff, at least they were smart compared to me, and 20 years ago....

One guitar synth I always wanted to get was the Zeta Mirror 6. I was actually taking to Zeta about buying a new one when Gibson bought them out and shelved them. :/

Good luck, and post some pics!

[L Nutter]

I'll get some pics up when I get back to Chicago this weekend!

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[gtone]

Any ya wonder why these didn't catch on? Not me...

Complexity, weight, the fact that few want a guitar to sound like an organ (Jon Lord wanted his organ to sound more like a guitar), where should I stop?...