It might just look like something your grandma has, but it's
definitively not (well, maybe some dutch grandmas do). This organ toghether with
an Electro-Harmonix Smallstone phaser and a little bit delay creates the awesome
"Jean Michel Jarre strings" sound. Jarre has used this organ on most of his
albums, specially noticeable on Oxygene(1976), Equinoxe(1978) and Oxygene
7-13(1997).
The most important sound on this organ is the string-ensemble, take a look at the right side of the panel
picture, there you'll find the
Strings Ensemble section which controls the
string sound, and head on to the audio
samples page to hear it. I just love this organ, it sounds like a synth and
looks like a organ, there is only thing; it haven't got MIDI, so I have to play
it by hand and I am not much of a keyboard player.
This particular organ I have been so lucky to get my hands on, was shipped to
Norway all the way from The Netherlands (thanks Arthur!).
The Eminent 310 Unique was made by the dutch company Eminent in Bodegraven, which also made the famous
Solina String-Ensemble. Eminent 310 Unique organs wen't out of production about 20 years
ago when Eminent declared bankrupt. Eminent startet up again in 1985 but they only make
digital classical organs now. Have a look at their website:
www.eminentorgans.nl
