The Guilds of Grot
Enlightened Member
As many of you know I've been amassing a serious amount of Guild literature. One of the more unusual items I've come across is the Guild Electric Organ.
Let's start the story here with an October, 1 1968 price list.
We'll be discussing the first and last items listed. The middle two "Tel-Ray Organ Tones" we'll save for another day.
Here is a brochure for the Guild Electric Organ listed;
You can see that the description matches the price catalog.
Then on the back is the seperate "RotoVerb" unit;
I had a shot at a RotoVerb on ebay but was severely outbid when it went for like $350 or something!
Next, after some Google seaching I found this cool website called "Combo Organ Heaven" and low and behold they had a section on the Guild Electric Organ above. Not only that, but they make reference to the first Guild Electric Organ that has never appeared in a catalog! We'll get to that in a minute, in the meantime please click on the following link and go about halfway down the page.
Starmaster/Guild
Then as you saw at the bottom of they page they reference the "other" Guild Electric Organ. They saw an ad from September, 1968 for the organ. The ad I have is purportedly from June 1968.
As mentioned on the website it is an unusual set up with the voice tabs in front or beneath the keys. Being so unusual you think they would have been able to track the manufactor down. But alas, the mystery continues...
Let's start the story here with an October, 1 1968 price list.
We'll be discussing the first and last items listed. The middle two "Tel-Ray Organ Tones" we'll save for another day.
Here is a brochure for the Guild Electric Organ listed;
You can see that the description matches the price catalog.
Then on the back is the seperate "RotoVerb" unit;
I had a shot at a RotoVerb on ebay but was severely outbid when it went for like $350 or something!
Next, after some Google seaching I found this cool website called "Combo Organ Heaven" and low and behold they had a section on the Guild Electric Organ above. Not only that, but they make reference to the first Guild Electric Organ that has never appeared in a catalog! We'll get to that in a minute, in the meantime please click on the following link and go about halfway down the page.
Starmaster/Guild
Then as you saw at the bottom of they page they reference the "other" Guild Electric Organ. They saw an ad from September, 1968 for the organ. The ad I have is purportedly from June 1968.
As mentioned on the website it is an unusual set up with the voice tabs in front or beneath the keys. Being so unusual you think they would have been able to track the manufactor down. But alas, the mystery continues...