Crumar T2 Organizer

The JT2 (1978) has two light manuals, also good good for rapid player.
The bass is easy and good, but I prefere to use a Solton bass, which has a midi connection whith my Nord Electro 2.

The most privilege of the JT2 is the sound; it remeber me the sound of
a Guldbransen Organ. The combination with the original Crumar "Leslie"
is powerfull and the surround effetcts are fantastic, if it is played live and if the valvular rotor amplifier " crumar leslie" is connected to professional instruments.

The choice of the sounds is finalized by using the drawbars of the upper and lower manuals.
good is the rating of vibrato and the vibrato effect.
Sustain is to simple. Better the one of Guldbranse or Hammond

I play in a group an play The JT2 togheter with a Nord electro 2, a GEM WK8 and a Roland EM series.
IT's important that the the intrumets are programmed and ready to play, without to press a lot of button.
The real organ player plays on the manuals and pedals, he doesn't have time to press buttons.

Repaired and now plays like a new JT2 organ.
It was repaired in Lugano (switzerland) by Mr. Gsell, very professional on all organ he knows

Very difficult to find another that plays like my JT2.
I hope to use it for a long time.

Anyone familar with organs will have no problem. Drawbars, presets, volume pedal and off-on switch.

It's an organ.

Hammond-like drawbars for upper and lower as well as presets. Three percussive drawbars. Three bass drawbars for the 18 not (1.5 octave) pedalboard. That's why I still use it - thses boots are made for walkin. Cheesy 70's electric piano sound. Seperate bass, piano and organ outs as well as a main out. Tuning pod.

25 years of rock and roll. Had it in twice. The hard thing is finding someone who will work on it.

They're gone.

Still use it on stage regularly. I'd be lost without it. At least until someone makes a 1.5 octave midi pedalboard. I've only seen 17 not 18 note midi's (need that high F). I've been playing 35 years. I also have a Proteus performance keyboard a Roland EM25, a Elka String unit and a Soundchaser - pre midi Apple II+ with two internal cards that ribbon out to a woodgrain kybd. Basiclly it turns the Apple into a 16 occilator synth. 1st computer/synthesizer combo (1981).

Dead Simple ... only a Hammond is simpler .. NO, Wait! you hafta
START a Hammond, this? just hit the switch to "on".

Full Polyphony, armloads! Very 'light' action. This makes for some
getting used to coming fresh from a Hammond. BUT it's so much LIGHTER
than the Ham that you're fingers will feel fine :-) The pedals are
really neat for bass but I'm not very good at it. Cool, vintage 70's
look with built in stand. Lots of knobs and controls. Full upper and
lower drawbar sets that sound and act just like the real thing. For a B3
simulator, it has ALL the features and then some -- stuff like extra
percussion ranks which are actually pretty useful, darn good key click,
gawdawful worthless pitchbend (to me anyway), and a 'bass' and 'sustain'
section that really makes live use easy for switching your hands
between keyboards because it'll sustain notes which is extra cool and
indespensible now and again. Even has a so-so leslie. But waaay more
stuff than any 'B' or 'C' or whatever. And find anything else in the
world with 2 keyboards!? Sure, an XB might have digital sound but
it don't look or play like an ORGAN. It's a synth. This is an old
70's synth (lots of real controls) but it's organ through and
through.

Fantastic Hammond. Well ... no so great Leslie, BUT when I use it
with a chopped 145 or even my Voce Spin, this thing really rocks!
Now, it's old, collectable (VERY), and vintage. There are better
imitations. Stuff like the V3 or V5 but those modules just don't have
the "pathos" of a full blown double manual keyboard. Very expressive.
The bass is good enough for solo organ work.

Very solid.
No trouble.
Old enough to get the pots cleaned.

They're out of business -- so I'm told.

I really love this thing. It speaks of vintage, classy, and cheesy
design all at once :-) Somebody really sweated to build it and
bring it to market. There are better SOUNDING units, I think, but
no better PLAYING units. It's different from a Hammond in feel and
appearance and WEIGHT -- but that might be exactly why you want it.
It's built for the gig. It ain't furniture. I'd play hell trying
to replace it because they are so sought after and rare -- but I'd
try my hardest. If I couldn't, I'd hire guys to schlep around my
Hammond.

Each function has it's own switch or knob or drawbar.
Dead-easy to use!

This baby is a double-manual organ.Both keyboards have 61 keys. The
key-action is light, but good. You have 9 drawbars for each manual,
which are positioned above the keyboards (just like on a Hammond).
There are 9 (nine!!!) percussion-settings plus decay and soft switch.
This is maybe a bit over the edge, but it works. There is also a small
bass synthesizer onboard, which can be played in the fist two octaves
of the lower manual or via a pedal (i can't comment on the pedal, for
i don't have it.) The organ has a pitch-bender, which is quite awful
and finally you have a vibrato/tremolo-unit

I used to beef the sound of the Crumar up by using a Hugh&Kettner
Tube Rotosphere, which really did the trick. Very good Hammond-like
sound. At one point I got tired of lugging this thing around (it
weighs estimated 60 lbs or so) and got myself an Hammond XB-1 and
XB-2. They may have Chorus/vibrato and the sound may be more realistic
but i came back to the Organizer, simply for the fact that it's a
double-manual organ. There are some tricks you can't do on two stacked
independent keyboards because the distance between the keys is to big.
It simply feels better having such a monster on stage.

It's some 25 years old and I had it repaired twice. That seems
reliable enough for me.

The company doesn't exist anymore. I have found a great old guy, who
can fix any organ you like, so I don't really have a problem with
support.

If it were stolen i'm afraid i wouldn't get another one, so i'd have
to dig deep in my pocket and get me an OB-5 or an used BX-3(which are
very hard to get either).
If you can find a T2, go buy it and have fun.