chord organ


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chord organ

n. Music
An electronic or reed organ equipped with buttons for producing chords.
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Also, a Miko keyboard- a custom-built keytar, a chord organ among others will be up for sale.
My first band was called The Monsters, and it was me and an elementary school friend in my basement messing around with a Yamaha keyboard, an old chord organ, my mom's old guitar from high school and some random instruments.
Dressed Like Wolves is made up of Thornaby's Rick Dobbing and his Spooker friends making fuzzy, chord organ rock 'n' roll songs.
Rick and his Spooker Recs friends are known for making 'fuzzy, casiotone laden, chord organ rock 'n' roll songs' and will be bringing their diverse music to the Ouseburn Valley later this month.
Songwriter Mysha Caruso contributes vocals, guitars, piano, vibraphonette, drums, bass, percussion, toy piano, chord organ and bowed glockenspiel.
"Thus the chord organ moves music technology from ancient to modern, both using the latest computers available at the time."
When Joey was one year old, he stood in his playpen humming the tunes that his parents played on the chord organ.
All eyes were on the suited Daniel Cochran as he shuffled to the front of the rows of seats and cranked up the wheezing chord organ to sing solo through the attention grabbing album starter String On A Map.
Matt didn't even dare engage the wheeze of the chord organ for fear of disrupting Rick''s fragile vocals as he sang through songs from the brilliant debut album Heaven Is Just Memories, of a Place I Used To Know.
There was no delicate vibraphone or wheezing chord organs but two fully amped up electric guitars and drum kit for Dressed Like Wolves.
This matched up perfectly with the band's downscale gear-K-Mart guitars, chintzy chord organs, broken-down drum machines, and the like.