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Thread #110424   Message #2463301
Posted By: GUEST,Smokey
11-Oct-08 - 07:00 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Will - If it's got a Vox Humana, it's an American Organ - wherever it was made. (As in French horns which have been made in China) Vox Humana isn't a sound of its own though, it's a sort of shimmering effect brought about by the air-blown rotation of a thing on a long spindle that I can't quite describe. The VH stop won't make a sound on its own.

Don - You won't go far wrong with Roland or Yamaha, not much to choose between them price or quality-wise. The Roland tone tends to be fuller/richer than Yamaha, who score when it comes to brightness/top-end. They both do a full range from minimal looking studio keyboards up to front-parlour instruments that are more like furniture.