MOOG White Elephant CDX-0652 Cordovox Organ Demo
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- Опубліковано 20 лис 2010
- Demo video of the Cordovox CDX-0652 Moog "White Elephant" keyboard. This is an Italian combo organ manufactured by the Thomas Organ company in 1975. Thomas licensed the Moog Satellite and grafted it into the top tier of the organ. The monophonic synth and the organ can be used independently or together on the top tier and the bottom tier organ can also be split with a Moog bass on the left. We have enjoyed many keyboard demos on UA-cam and thought that we should post this since there aren't many others... **Be sure to watch our other videos to see the White Elephant and other keyboards in LIVE action!** [For your copy of the debut CD by The Show FEATURING THIS KEYBOARD send $10 and a return address to: The Show P.O. Box 426 Enon OH 45323. Please make checks and money orders payable to Jessica Kinzer.] Thanks!
i've come back to this a number of times. the fact that you play the moog presets as if they were the different instruments is so much more beneficial than what you normally see!
Amazing explanation of the beginning of the use of synthesis and layering sounds...
Thanks so much...
Organs and Moogs - Two of my musical loves come together! So awesome.
Awesome! Love this demo!!
This video was great and very helpful, thank you!!
I love your enthusiasm.
This is a great demo, Thanks for posting!
this is a lot like the Thomas organ which is the same company that built the moog satellite for moog. The synth built into this organ is the same thing as a satellite as well. Never had my hands on one of these organs but have been all over a polymoog circuitry.
Thanks again for posting this very cool demo,
Take care,
Jareth
@FlametopFred Thanks! Yes, we love funky, old keyboards because each one is different- no one knew what the future would hold!
OMG I would love one of these...
Awesome.
@BenUriyahMay We only have one other video with the CDX-0652, and that's "'The Aristocrat' Live at Peach's" by The Show. The sound quality isn't that great on that particular video, but still fun to watch. Thanks for your interest!
Looks very similar to the Elka X705.
I like it.
@BuyBenco That is true. Also the company Cordovox was another company that was in with moog. This is like a mixture of three companys put together.
@M4000D We thought that was an urban legend, but we'll be on the lookout!
I've been looking at the Farfisa professional 110. And it does have quite some similarity with this white elephant...
@SPFXsynthesisers They always light up whenever I'm around a vintage keyboard!
@BuyBenco Indeed, and it is SWEET!
nice vid. Lucky find. They simply don't make keyboards as funky as this anymore. But then the no longer make exploding Ford Pinto's either.
Okay thanks! I actually have one and was thinking of selling it.
@thedevilisbad I donno...If you find out let me know because ours is out, too! Maybe they have the same problem. It first started acting up intermittently. When we turned it on, the synth would work but would play the same note on every key played. After 5 min of warming up, however, it would play fine. Now the synth is like that all time time!!! BUMMER.
I had one 30 years ago that I played through a mammoth bass amp. Loved it for the very retro feel and sound. I think I gave $400 for it...and I'd gladly spend that to have it back.
Hmmm..why do i imediatly think of Space 1999, and hear Blancmange in my head when i listen to this "Gods Kitchen" ??? 0_o...Great video :-D
Well, you know what they say- "Two MOOGs are better than one!"
Cool.
@TheROCKSHOWBand I've seen them for sale on eBay for up to $3,000 but there is one on eBay right now for $599 buy it now!
@UMAMIMAMU My thoughts exactly! Woo!!!
can you patch it to a moog and use patch cords
There is one avail in my city on Craigslist for 550$ working condition
how about a Fender Contempo-and a Wurlitzer combo organ for some rare one's
The keyboard player for our "old" prog-fusion band PROJECTION, Antonette Traverso, used one extensively, & I'll be uploading roughly 20 or so original songs of ours utilizing that old Italian-made Beastie.
They gotta make a VST of this. Maybe Arturia would like to take up the task?
Good news, Earthlings- The White elephant lives!!! We got it out of the closet today and the finicky thing works again- for no apparent reason at all...but for how long?
Detroit rocker Mike Quatro used this beast. Cordovox also had a hand in the Freeman String Machine.
@PunchandJudyDuo my moog cdx 0652 has the same problem. Did you find out how to fix it?
@hrvatwrestle Not sure exactly, but that probably depends on which side of the Atlantic you're on. Ha Ha!
We've heard that the Elephants are more rare in the US than UK.
👏👏👏👏🤣🤣buenisimo
We traded a beat up Fender Rhodes 88 (w/o the speaker cab) for this awesome keyboard!
You traded a rare, completely repairable, 88 Rhodes for this? Guys, we need to have an alien to human heart to heart.
Is there a relation between cordovox and Farfisa?
I owned and played one of these back in High School in the 1970's. Its a cool-looking instrument, but the sound isn't that great. It doesn't sound like a Vox, Farfisa or Hammond, and the sound is rather dull overall. The monophonic Moog voices sound Ok, but being monophinic, what you can do with it is limited. And it doesn't have the ability to do real screaming Mini-Moog leads, being more oriented to quasi-realistic instrument simulations.
My favorite sound was a sort of string-synthsizer simulation with the organ "Mixture" drawbar pushed up to give it a very bright sound and Moog string on top. But when I got a real poly synth in the 1980's (a Korg Poly-800), I never touched the CDX again. I eventually trashed it.
The key contacts are separated by plastic beads that are brittle and tend to break. You can replace these pretty easily, so if it stops working, open it up and check that.
When i was 15 around 1974 in west LA someone threw one out and my friend got it.
Did Kraftwerk use one of these? It sounds a lot like some of things on their records, but that may be because it is a moog though.
I dunno- but they did use a MiniMoog and Farfisa organs, which when combined would be very close to the White Elephant sound.
Looks better than it sounds, any Elka or Yamaha and even GEM sounds better
Thanks - how much are these worth now?
I don't think so- probably not without modifying it.
This thing's gotta be a prog rock machine!!!! Fuckin' word!
So moog and thomas got together to make a SYNTH ORGAN?!
@TheROCKSHOWBand What would you want for it? I have stuff to trade too if you're interested.
@PunchandJudyDuo haha yeah, dont bother that ones kind of trashed.
Ooh Well, crazy People...
Y el barbudo de anteojos de que la va.
Nice video! It has phenomenal potential !!!! Do you still own it?
Sold? Respond?
Please 🙏
Thanks. Still own it, still respond!
Awsome!!!! I would love 2 play it. I've been playing since 1976.
I live in Pennsylvania what state are you in?
@@blakehoke6014 Right now we are in the state of Disuse/Disrepair, lol. Haven't played it much since the band broke up a few years ago. The White Elephant needs the contacts cleaned, etc., as the synth has developed a nasty warble from not being played enough. It was like that when we bought it though, and regular use would get her going again...
@bread0666 Ha ha!
Anyone want to trade a moog liberation for my rhodes?
How much is one of these going for nowadays?
LOL... I don't think she's played a single black note the whole 10 minutes! Only whites...
Nice demo of a fairly rare beast though. Thanks!
We've found performance based demos to be dull and uncreative. If you would like to troll our music, check out our other vids! Funny how the music sounds better when you follow your ears instead of your eyes...
@ralfobob No. It just started to work again for no apparent reason at all after being in the closet for 3 months! Go figure...
crazy video play it, much better thing to save our time
punching self in face right now... i bought a set of taurus 1s in 1990 and the guy would only sell them if i took this ugly white organ thingy too. it didn't have midi, and the moog synth was barely programmable. it also didn't work, although being a drummer i had no idea how an organ was supposed to function. it ended up in a land fill a year later. i have regretted it ever since, but i was 17 and stupid. seeing it in action now makes me cry..... and punch myself in the face.
I passed on one of these many moons ago. Wierd and thin but still kinda cool.
she is rich ....
Too groovy
So cool. Sounds so cheesy and terrible.