Guild also made another organ, which I have little info on, except the following description from Barry Carson:
"In September, 1968 Guild published an ad that included the Guild 'Electronic Organ'. It is indeed a boxy, tolex covered thing, but it is very bizarre. It has a regular keyboard (no reverse keys), and above the keys are a few knob - slider things. The actual voice tabs are on a slanted panel that is below and in front of the keys - so you would reach over the tabs to play the keys, and you would have to reach over them quite a distance - weird. The legs of the thing look like the bottom half of a modern 'X' type stand. I remember seeing one like it someplace when I was a kid. The picture I have is b/w, but I remember it having some red and white tabs. By November of 1968, Guild was running pretty much the same ad but with the Guild 'Electric Organ' which is the plastic Fender-like one"
Regarding the "Roto-Verb": effect, I have the following quote from someone who remembers seeing them:
"I never saw a Guild organ,but I remember the Rotoverb well as a "stomp pedal" accessory box that weighed about 9 pounds. It indeed did approximate a Leslie rotating speaker sound but with some particular weirdness to it. It even had the 2 "speeds". I was getting really bored with the sounds the Farfisa could make till I saw this thing in the back of the local music store where we hung out all day. I remember so well that it cost 75 bucks, which was about what our whole band got paid for a gig in those days. My fondest memory of it was that I talked my folks into buying it for me as High School graduation present. Other kids got cars, but I was much more thrilled with the Rotoverb. It was a bizarre looking thing, with like modified "bat-wings" and it was colored sort of pumpkin orange with a black face where the foot switches were. Quite cool in 1968. For me, who could only dream about B-3's and Leslies, it changed my whole playing style and the sound of our band, who i think were thinking about kicking me out until I got this thing. Seems odd to reminisce mistily about a 30 year old effects pedal, but I will never forget that orange box"
. That's a cool looking electric organ. Great story about the "rotoverb". Thanks for posting
