#Baldwin digital piano manual full#
Pressing any single key on the small separate left-hand keyboard would automatically generate a full chord whose root note was the key you were pressing. It emulated the sounds of various keyboard and orchestral instruments, and unlike the Mellotron, Optigan, or Chamberlin, it didn’t require special tapes or discs to be used. Many of its features were similar to those of typical home organs.
With the shift from tubes to transistors in the ’50s and ’60s, organ circuitry became more compact and complex, which paved the way for an instrument like the Fun Machine.ĭesigned for amateur use, the Fun Machine was something of a hybrid. During the early 1940s, the first Baldwin electronic organ was developed, using 37 vacuum tubes finally released to the public just after World War II, it became such a huge success that president Lucien Wulsin II decided to rename his business the Baldwin Piano & Organ Company. Indeed, for a time it was the largest maker of keyboard instruments in the United States. The Baldwin Piano Company had already been an esteemed instrument manufacturer for nearly a century when it introduced the Fun Machine in 1974. The Baldwin Fun Machine is one of the latter group, but that doesn’t make it any less cool-and if you ever see one, you owe it to yourself to give it a try. Some, like the Mellotron, Optigan, and Chamberlin, have achieved cult status and are coveted by musicians and collectors. The world has seen quite a few peculiar electronic keyboard instruments over the years, especially from the era before digital technology.
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