Vermona ET 6-2

As I saw it I knew it's pretty pretty easy for me russian man never dealing with organs before to understand which is which. Cool enough)

It's got cool organ sound. but confidently transtistor-like. so it is) me like a hammond fan tried to reach his sound using some stuff like processors, though not having a leslie speaker yet. just wanna it. oh, i had some success. can use tremolo, pan, reverb and some other effects... But it's good for rhythm'n'blues anyway.
So, the polyfony is great. all is great. but my built-in reverb doesn't work))

Sound anyway is forever. For blues just better of all. good good

It's pretty big and heavy. And i don't like his own "legs") use a simple keyboarder. poor thing)anyway using on concerts

Afraid of its death.

Think it's better than many things.

Nothing on it which isn't plain to see. If you've got an idea of organs, here you go.

Basically, it has all common features of an electronic organ, so I will only go for the interesting details...
There's a variety of sliders on it and some of them are relly useless. Percussion is switchable for all of the six harmonics available. Some vibrato can be added.
It featured hammond-like "drawbars", called flutes, and many register switches. The latter are combinatons of harmonics with some analogue filter stuff addded to produce e.g. a diapason or principal sound. Rather un-natural, though.
Some 'percussion' section is featured, with a really lousy bongo imitation. Weird... but,
The weirdest thing is a knee-lever which adds a low-pass filter to the sound of the upper manual. it's really fun to experimnent with this...
All in all, it has all the features which you'd expect to find on a good Farfisa.
It's easy to tune, because each octave got it's own master oscillator, and the footages are obtained by frequency dividers. So, you simply tune each frequency, and it's done.
If it's complete, it comes in two medium-huge boxes. One contains the organ itself. In the other one is the stand (three parts), the knee-lever, the volume pedal, the music stand and a 17 note pedal board which is connected to the organ by a cable.

I definitely don't agree with the comment below.
If you want to have a hammond sound, forget it. It's really a sharp, tweety sound you can get from the unit. If you like to cover The Doors, here you go.
The unit was obviously built for being played in a church or so, That's why they tried to mimick all the classic church sounds, but even in this context it doesn't perform very well.
At least, it's got a clean, analogue transistor organ sound.

It's quite sturdy and comes in it's own case, so if it's handled properly nothing will break.

I know that the company which produced it does still exist, but I don't know if they still support it. I have a dim memory, though, of someone telling me that one can still get the keyboards repaired somewhere in Eastern Germany... Not very helpful, I know.
I believe it's worth a try to search the internet. (try www.vermona.de) Also, there are some believers which are keen to help other admirers of Vermona gear, so join a newsgroup and you'll find someone... If your unit is damaged, my bro could help you. (mail him: schorsch@grooveschmied.de)

I owned mine a few years until I could buy me a Hammond. To my opinion, even a transistor hammond like the B200 sounds better than the ET. As I said, don't go for this if you want Hammond sound. If you like eighties rock sound and want something weird and unique, try it. If you come across an ET, it's usually not expensive, and it's still worth a try...

It's an organ. Plug it in, select some voices, twiddle with footage sliders and play. Couldn't get much easier than that. Front-panel layout is pretty self-explanatory, I can't really imagine anyone needing a manual.

Still, it's an organ, so there's unlimited polyphony. Six footages on upper manual, three on lower, two on pedals. On the upper manual, there are ten selectable voices with different filterings and six sliders for flutes. These can be played separately, or together. On the lower manual, there are seven selectable voices. On pedals, there are two sliders for bass tones and a sustain slider.

There's also Hammond-style single triggering percussion with adjustable decay. It works on upper manual only. There's a switch for selecting whether it sounds flute sliders and preset voices.

Effects include reverb, wah-wah (really a low-pass filter) on upper manual and vibrato. Vibrato and reverb are separately selectable for both manuals. On upper manual, vibrato can be turned into repeat for a tremolo-like effect. There are sliders for vibrato speed and depth, and a separate slider for repeat speed. Wah-wah is operated with a knee lever.

Keyboard action is very light and keys return back up really fast. Pedal section is good, also, stiff enough to avoid accidental notes.

I'd say it's a very well equipped combo organ.

Soundwise, this thing is absolutely sick. You can get a very close approximation of most all Vox and Farfisa sounds, and more. When you select all voices, and pull all the sliders up, it sounds rather like a small church organ. I tried playing some classical stuff on it, and even with my limited skills, it sounded more convincing than a Hammond. When you put the vibrato on maximum speed and depth, you get a sound that's not like anything that usually comes out of an organ. I haven't played it through a Leslie yet, but I'd imagine it can get pretty Hammond-esque then. The tonal variety is wide enough for many different styles.

This thing is built like a tank. Busbars are made of thick steel rod, the overall construction is very durable and the stand is sturdy enough to support a much larger weight. There's one major downside, though. Almost all the capacitors are old-style wax capacitors, which tend to lose their capacitance over time, especially if they're not used. I'm going to have to replace a lot of them. I'd imagine this wouldn't be the case if the organ hadn't been stored in an attic for years.

No idea. The current "Vermona" company has nothing to do with VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke, which made these things back when DDR used to exist. Schematics for this model are not available on the WWW. I don't have a set of schematics, but if I find them, I'll scan them, too.

This thing absolutely rocks. I had plans to chop my T-series Hammond for a gig organ, but those plans are postponed now. As soon as I get the caps replaced, I'll start using this at gigs. Luckily enough, I got the lid and accessory box for pedals, stand etc. in the deal. If it were stolen, I'd find the guy who did it and he'd be sorry he ever touched it.