Article by: Lee Jones
It’s called a forum, but really is a repository of files, It is run by Richard Treat (ADMIN EDIT sadly passed away 06/25/2021) who also runs the Yahoo Group, LOWREYFORUM ( also no longer active)
The Main purpose of this website is to store Music Files that can be accessed for listening, Also a selection of Repair and Owner’s manuals, Lowrey Organ/Virtual Orchestra Brochures/Spec Sheets and Photographs are all available for use as desired.
Check it out sometime, it is great for listening to many songs, and how others play them, using a variety of lowrey organs.
At the very top of the page are various links to pages
Working from the far right is Photographs which apparently there are none ?
moving along is Manuals and Brochures
Brochures and Manuals
Many of these date back to the 1960’s, so if your looking for that elusive manual from days past, it may be here.
Music
This is the reason i wrote this short review as the contents here are very useful, not just because all the songs are being played on Lowrey organs, but also you can familiarise yourself with songs you may not know the title of, and you may want to play yourself.
All the songs are divided into different categories
- Misc Lowrey’s and Other Organs
- Symphonic Citation Theater (SCT) D500
- Palladium
- STARDUST
- MAJESTY LX510
- SU SERIES
- A Series
Many of the songs you simply click on and they will play, while a few are direct downloads, also, if you right click on the song of choice and select open link in new window or tab this audio player will open up and on the right side is an arrow that once clicked will download the audio file to your computer.
I originally had no idea how to add to the list, but have subsequently learnt that a file section is set aside for uploading your sound cut (song) on the Yahoo Group LowreyForum, so the WEB Master (Richard Treat) can place it in this supporting WEB Site at http://www.lowreyforum.com
(UPDATE as of 02-May-2018 :-IT’S NOW OFFICIALLY CLOSED) ,
I’m not sure if it is still a work in progress or an abandoned project, but still it is very useful for what is currently there.
UPDATE: Apparently, when the Yahhoo site becomes full of files Richard then transfers the whole lot in one go over to LowreyForum, it appears that this has not been done since 2015 ?
Having recently done a search of who owns the site, I have the following
This forum appears to have moved from Yahoo to another server.
Yes you are right the Yahoo forum has moved, but also all the music files that were here have also been deleted from the above site as well.
I can only assume that this website has now been abandoned and all the music files will now be here
https://groups.io/g/lowreyforum/files
The new site has it’s advantages, but the older site that hosted all the music files could be played just by clicking on them, and they were divided into categories of specific organs. now thay are all lumped together and the music file now first needs to be downloaded before playing – not so good in my mind !