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Pari<
/b>
is an Italian company which made
tonewheel organs in the 1970's.
The Pari's were more-or-less [copies|HammondClones] of Hammond ToneWheel spinets.
+[
Pari| http:
//www.parieorgan.it/]
is an Italian company located in Castelfidardo near Ancona.
+They produced
tonewheel organs in the 1970's,
+and have recently started production
+of a brand-new electromagnetic Hammond clone.
+
+----
+
+!! History
+
+The generator of Pari organs was created by Anton Parie, who started production of an electromagnetic organ in Belgium in the early '60s.
+
+Around 1969, production of the XTO model was moved to Italy by Alfredo Gioielli, and the "golden age" of Pari began.
+In the '70 Pari factory produced many models like the XTO and the ATTACK, very good instruments made for home or stage use,
+that, in many cases were preferred to hammonds because they were lightweight and more aggressive-sounding,
+a "must" for '70 rock or progressive bands.
+They made other models like the x150, Kotra, and k-61 (that means 61 waterfall keys in each manual) and also some models of "leslie" clones.
+
+Technically Pari organs had same good sounding related to hammonds: tonewheels, analog spring reverber system, vibrato scanner and tubes in all sound processing. For many people the fact that the gearwheels are made of plastic seems very strange: truly the system is simple but very good, in fact it reduced the noise of rotating wheels, the only problem was the lubricating system that, after a long use, made the wheels harder and glassy for the use of oil and finally broke them. Unfortunately Pari factory closed production in the late '70 and for many years find a new set of plastic wheels was very very difficult expecially out of Italy.
+
+In 2005 Pari factory re-opened with the name of "PARI.E" the means "pari-electromagnetic" starting the production of a new organ, the _new K-61_ that is the only electromagnetical organ made now in the world.
+This re-opening means also availability of new sets of gearwheels for people that still have old Paris.
+In fact the new one have the same tonewheel generator but doesn't have the lubrication system anymore.
+The new K-61 is a big step ahead because combines perfectly the old experiences with new technology: better sounding, better materials choice, customer support, and less weight --- in short, "the electromagnetic organ of the new millennium".
+
+! References
+* http://www.parie.nl/
+* http://www.parieorgan.it/storia_en
.htm
+
+----
+
+!! The Old Paris
+
+
The Pari's were more-or-less [copies|HammondClones] of Hammond ToneWheel spinets.
Some of the details of their construction were different, however.
For example they used "tone drums" in the tone generator rather than Hammonds discrete [ToneWheel]s.
A more complete write-up (written by HenningHøjen) about the workings of the old Pari's (along with nice pictures of the guts) can be found at http://www.hammond-leslie.info/pari/.
-<b>
Pari</b> organs is an Italian factory located in Castelfidardo near Ancona: they produced electromagnetic organs in which generation of sound is made out of tonewheels like Hammonds
.
-The generator
of Pari organs was created by Anton Parie
, that
started productions
of this electromagnetic
organ in Belgium in the early '60
, but
the "gold era" of Pari was in Italy, where the production moved. In the '70 Pari factory produced many models like the XTO
and the ATTACK
, very good instruments made for home or stage use, that, in many cases were preferred to hammonds because they were lightweight and more aggressive-sounding, a "must" for '70 rock or progressive bands. They made other models like
the x150, Kotra, and k
-61 (that means 61 waterfall keys in each manual
) and also some models of "leslie"
.
+In the latter part
of 2006
, Pari
started production
of a new two-manual
organ, the _new K-61_ (
and a portable version
, the K
-61P
).
-Technically
Pari organs had same good sounding related to hammonds
: tonewheels
, analog spring reverber system
, vibrato scanner
and tubes in all sound processing
. For many people the fact that the gearwheels
are made of plastic seems very strange: truly the system is simple but very good
, in fact
it reduced the noise
of rotating wheels
, the only problem was
the lubricating system that
, after
a long use
, made
the wheels harder and glassy for the use of oil and finally broke them
. Unfortunately Pari factory closed production in
the late
'70 and for many years find
a new set of plastic wheels was very very difficult expecially out of Italy
.
+The [
Pari web site|http
://www.parieorgan.it/] provides scant details on the new organ.
+The description and pictures below come from Pari's sales manager
, Mauro Baldassari.
+They were relayed to me by HenningHøjen.
+
+
+The new model can be ordered with or without the reverse-colored preset keys
, and with or without bass-pedals (13 and 25 note pedal claviers are available
.)
+The electronics
are tube driven
, and
it has scanner vibrato and percussion.
+The organ requires no lubrication. Best
of all
, the organ (without pedals) weighs 45 kg (just under 100 lbs.)
+
+Pari also makes tube-powered Leslie clones to go with
the new K-61.
+
+! Pictures
+
+The new Pari.e K-61~: <br>
+[http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/pics/parie/k61-front.jpg]
+
+[http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/pics/parie/k61-top.jpg]
+
+The portable version~: <br>
+[http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/pics/parie/k61p.jpg]
+
+Back view
, showing the tone generator~:<br>
+[http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/pics/parie/Pari_K-61_back1.jpg]
+
+Another back view~:<br>
+[http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/pics/parie/Pari_K-61_back2.jpg]
+
+<?plugin Comment
+
+ These pictures are of
a Pari Attack
, not a K-61.
+
+Back view, showing
the tone generator~:<br>
+[http://www
.dairiki.org/hammond/pics/parie/k61-generator.jpg]
+
+Closeup of
the gears~:<br>
+[http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/pics/parie/k61-gears.jpg]
+?>
+
+
+! References
+
+Here
's
a four-page PDF [sales brochure|http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/pics/parie/k61-brochure.pdf] about the K-61
.
-In 2005 Pari factory re-opened with the name of "PARI.E" the means "pari-electromagnetic" starting the production of a new organ, the
new K-61 that
is the only electromagnetical organ made now
in the world; this re
-opening means also availability
of new sets of gearwheels for people that still have old Paris. Infact
the new one have the same tonewheel generator but don
't have the lubrication system anymore: as you can see in the Pari web site
http://www.parieorgan
.it the new k-61 is a big step ahead because combines perfectly old experiences with new technology that means better sounding, better materials choice, customer support, and less weight: in few words "The electromagnetic organ of the new millennium"
.
+The
new K-61 is reviewed
in the [January/February 2007|http://www.okey
-online.com/cgi/tests/ausgnr.cgi?74]
+issue
of the German organ and keyboard player
's magazine [Okey|
http://www.okey-online
.com/]
.
