Lipp Minichord Analog Monophonic Electric Organ

The company Rich. Lipp & Sohn in Stuttgart has been producing high-quality pianos and pianofortes since 1831. In the early 1950s, the company began building electronic keyboard instruments in co-operation with Ahlborn-Orgel GmbH. The Minichord is a tube-based monophonic keyboard instrument like the ondioline and the clavioline.  

The Lipp organ is equipped with a 48-key keyboard and an optional pedal. It has four tone colours - horn, strings, reed and flute - which can be regulated in 6 stages. The same switch functions are available for vibrato and pedal. The treble can be set to normal and forte. The instrument’s sound is generated by a number of astable multivibrator vacuum tubes and monostable multivibrator tubes for frequency division. Tone colour is added with filters, pre-amplification and vibrato.