Thursday, December 31, 2009
6:53 PM
The Magnus Organ
A lot of people had one of these Magnus organs back in the 60's and early 70's. My cousin, Gay had one. I used to like to mess with them when I saw them in stores, or visited someone who had one and I wanted one of my own. However, a part of me was afraid that if I asked for one of these and got it, I might never get the piano that I wanted much more so I never gave my parents the full-court press on this item. lol It's just as well. They were fun but really they were just about one or two steps up from being toys. They certainly didn't offer anything impressive in terms of sound and there weren't enough keys to satisfy serious keyboardists. Still, they were a neat little musical invention in their day and had my parents been willing to buy one of these AND a piano, I would have enjoyed playing with it.