I have an FX1. It was recovered from the basement of a house in New Jersey it had suffer a lightning strike and blew out 64 chips. My older brother before he passed away in 2015 was able to repair the instrument. I was also a Electone Finalist in 1975
@jeremymoyse
3 ай бұрын
I remember being a judge (not in the finals) in the Electone competitions.
@Tarkusedge434
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for upload on the full concert. Hiroshi Kubota and Reiko Kashiwagi are such amazing electone players!
@NatureLenzPhoto
5 ай бұрын
Hi Jeremy. This certainly brings back the memories. I was Canadian National Electone champion in 1983 and participated in the International Electone Festival in Tokyo that year. The FX series had just been introduced and luckily for me Yamaha Canada had acquired one early so I was able to migrate from the E75 to FX1 (with some coaching from Claude Dupras) in preparation for Japan. At the competition most of the contestants played on the FX1 and a couple the GX1 (if my memory is correct). The night before the main event all of us were secretly shuttled to a concert hall making it just in time to hear Reiko Kashiwagi and Hiroshi Kubota perform the very same pieces in your video. I'll never forget the feelings we all experienced that evening. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
@jeremymoyse
3 ай бұрын
Big jump from the E75 to the FX series in terms of what they are best at. Must have been a challenge.
@NatureLenzPhoto
3 ай бұрын
@@jeremymoyse I had help.
@moonootoo
Жыл бұрын
Hiroshi Kubota absolutely legend... just listen to that pedalwork
@fifeelectronicorgansociety
2 ай бұрын
WOW! What a find! I remember this tour with Reiko Kashiwagi and Hiroshi Kubota and the incredible (for then) HX1. It was a genuinely jaw-dropping moment when we first heard that slap bass line and rhythm guitar in "We're All Alone". Reiko played beautifully, and consensus of opinion was "the guy will have to be something else to follow that performance". Hiroshi Kubota opened his set with "Rise"... And so it did! The footwork, the technique, just other-worldly. Even when he was late starting the trumpet line and had a chuckle to himself. Just genius. "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" was mad, but "Now The Time" was just insane. WHAT a player. Great times!
@Thedaanvo
Жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you so much for sharing! I'm too young to have lived the heyday of these instruments but now there's at least a glimpse of what these shows were like!
@fifeelectronicorgansociety
2 ай бұрын
It was amazing! 1000+ people sitting in excited disbelief.
@ambulet
Жыл бұрын
I have an FX-20 sitting right next me, and the HX-1 I bought new in 1990. Yamaha turned the organ world upside down forever with these instruments. Still building Electones when almost all the rest have flamed out. that is staying power....
@jeremymoyse
Жыл бұрын
Just slightly jealous!
@danielforro-forrotronics3921
11 ай бұрын
I have both, HX1 in the largest configuration with KA20 speakers. I just could repair HX1, and FX20 started this year to have some problem with strange noises in sound, I will try to repair it. Great instruments!
@trudywretched
Жыл бұрын
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if Reiko Kashiwagi and Allan Holdsworth had shared a stage. The mind reels at the very prospect of such a thing. Great show!
@simonfisher836
Жыл бұрын
I am just seeing her for the first time. Obviously an amazing talent, can't wait to hear more of her recordings. Japan has produced some amazing Electone players.
@DohcHama
Жыл бұрын
Reiko looks so young! She is playing beautifully here.
@jean-yvesm336
3 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for the video. I remember my first Electone concert in 1984 on the FX20, with Giorgio Marotti. Later, Reiko Kashiwagi, Max Takano and other concertists came. Jean Yves, France
@brianentwistle9638
Жыл бұрын
I have one of these organs. The FX1 still is as impressive as ever.
@valartnad
3 ай бұрын
I was just 16 years old when I first played the incredible FX-1 for the first time in my life. I will never forget how I felt.
@fredfred1996
Жыл бұрын
thanks! my dream video while i was 10
@chachawan123
Жыл бұрын
thank you for share video
@juancarloscuevasbecerril5540
Жыл бұрын
Great !!!🎉❤
@jeremymoyse
Жыл бұрын
Glad you like it!
@mrdali67
Жыл бұрын
Reiko demonstrated the FX series in Denmark. I remember being flabbergasted both about the Organs and her talent and beuty. the concert was the reasoning I baught an FS-70 instead of the new digital Wersi models which really was poor sounding compard to the Yamaha. The Wersi was sampled none velocity sensitive sounds and did not at all live up to the hype of the Helios and Galaxis. I remember attending a concert in Copenhagen with Franz Lambert where he had he new Wersi with him together with a very specialized Galaxis. and the digital Wersi was such a disapointment. It took Wersi some years to catch up with the new digital market. I still today think the FX/FS series was the last "real" organs Yamaha made. And the motorized Faders in the larger models was as much bling back then as RGB lightning is today for computers 😘 I didn't really like the HX/HS series and the later series even they do have better sounds. The analog affects used in the FX/FS was kinda what made these organ sound great and modern but still with some of the charm about the analog sound of older models. And it's actually amazing how much must time Yamaha must have used coding all the FM tonegenerators in these organs. I was reasonabe good at understanding the DX7, but this is a totally different aproach than th DX7 as most of the sounds uses multiple FM tonegenrator. Not sure they all are 6op like the DX7 but some of the sounds is impossible to replicate in a single DX7. The internals of the Organ uses a 5 channel sound system
@jeremymoyse
3 ай бұрын
I think you might find the FX1 was more than 6op in places! But the numbers dropped quickly as you came down the range. Plus the organs did have effects the DX lacked, crucially such as chorus - try FX series trings wihtout chorus and they 'lack something'.
@mrdali67
3 ай бұрын
@@jeremymoyse Ya. The FX/FS series had multiple FM generators for each voice section that may not have been all full 6 op but mostly 4op that was routed to the adv 5 channel sound system and pretty sure the Symphonic/Chorus/Flanger/phaser and Tremolo effects was still their old school analog BBD Effects. I had the FS-70 which was basically the same as the FX-1, just in a classic wooden cabinet 2x49 keys upper/lower + solo manual and standard 13 pedal board.
@ttl8me
Жыл бұрын
Yamaha has always been way ahead of the future when they launched the iconic, mother of all space organ model GX-1! From then on, they have continued to show the world why Yamaha is the best. With their latest Stagea models, they pushed the boundaries beyond imagination... Combined with master Masashi Takano's talent in playing the electone, truly Yamaha will forever be my favorite!!
@陳麗文-t9e
Жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing.
@tonyburn115
2 ай бұрын
Thank you Jeremy. Great to be reminded of a night in Milton Keynes. Love your work!
@pianodon
16 күн бұрын
I have a Yamaha HX1 that I bought to use as a midi controller for Hauptwerk. I've never even played it through speakers
@namui
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing!
@epanfletagens
14 күн бұрын
I had an Fx-20 but in 2017 I sold it, regrets forever😢
@mphtower
8 ай бұрын
Super cool! Now I need to figure out how she was doing the pitch bends on the solo manual. I suspect it's a technique involving when the previous key is released to trigger the Slide Control which is probably set at max. Off to my FX-3...
@jeremymoyse
7 ай бұрын
You have an FX-3 #jealous! There was also the pedal triggered pitch-bend (like Lowrey were famous for) as well as the "portamento" type function. What is often ignored or not known is there was a lot on the FX-1 that was VERY different to the lower models, even though they appeared very similar. The FX-3 might have some of those features whereas the FX-20 probably doesn't. I can't be sure but did the FX-1 have a 'side-to-side' solo keyboard that also could trigger effects?
@mphtower
7 ай бұрын
@@jeremymoyse It didn't have it--that ended with the PASS era manuals. The FX-1 and FX-70 do have a slightly different architecture for their keybeds, but that's mostly related to scanning a console-length keyboard rather than the spinet-lengths in the other models. In essence, the FX/FS series keybeds are exactly the same as in the DX-series. In fact, I don't think there is any difference outside of the mounting brackets between the spinet and DX7 keybed. I dunno if I'd say the FX-1/70 is all that different from the FX-3/FS-500/20. The big changes are the console models include a few extra patches (e.g., Brass 3, Cosmic 3), two lead voices for the pedals (Vocal and Cosmic), and a coupler between the upper and lower manuals. Unusually, the FX-3/FS-500 -adds- features. There are additional play modes on the FX-3 that the FX-1 doesn't have. While there are a few cool things on the FX-1, I actually think the FX-3/FS-500 are the ones to get if you can live without a console.
@mphtower
7 ай бұрын
@@jeremymoyse While we're at it, the EX-1 and EX-2/E-70 are far more similar than I'd have ever guessed. The EX-1 only adds the solo manual and an upper-solo coupler. Other than that, they're exactly the same. Basically, get an E-70 and an SY-1 (I think) and you've got an EX-1 in a less cool box.
@mphtower
7 ай бұрын
The strikeout on "adds" was supposed to be italics. Maybe I have to write /adds/?
@rolandmitter7732
9 ай бұрын
Very impressive. Why did Wersi never give concerts with such funky and jazzy music and not only some trivial pop pieces?
@Lu-MingPan-b5w
9 ай бұрын
Japanese have different musical tastes than Europeans. I prefer Wersi organs over Yamaha organs.
@naebeltistgallant776
9 ай бұрын
Hatte ich früher auch. Wersi ist zu teuer und nicht mehr Wersi und wie früher heimisch in Halsenbach. Und sehr Reperatur bedürftig.
@OrgandyE
5 ай бұрын
I miss my fx…….😢
@smoak2024
8 ай бұрын
What song are they opening with? seems very familiar
@Csharpflat5
8 ай бұрын
Fanfair to the common man, ELP did a rock version on that same Organ that Keith Emerson used.
@johnhodgetts6617
7 ай бұрын
It was the GX-1 that Keith Emerson used, not the FX-1@@Csharpflat5
@jeremymoyse
6 ай бұрын
The one they don't play is Fanfare for the Common Man (Possibly played by Len Rawle??). The first tune Reiko plays is "We're All Alone"
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