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The Weltmeister TO 200/5 is a transistor organ with a 61-key keyboard (C-c) and eight polyphonically playable octaves. The 24 bass keys are adjustable in 16' and 8'. 
Electric and electronic organs have been built since 1959 in the VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb) in Klingenthal / GDR under the names Weltmeister, Böhm and Vermona (1972). The first organ, the EMP Ionica, still used tube-based sound generation. The Weltmeister series came onto the market at the end of the 1960s. They were intended for self-construction. Among other things, 192 transistors were required for the TO 200/5.

The TO 200/5 contains a frequency-contant LC control oscillator with downstream isolating stages and frequency division by flip-flop stages.  They has 5 courses 16' - 8' - 4' - 2 2/3' - 2'. A manual division is adjustable between b and c. The effects are vibrato, frequency and amplitude, percussion and repeat percussion, reverb and spring reverb with resonance. The organ has 2 slide stops for the manual division, 9 toggle stops for formant timbres, a stop selector switch, 5 slide stops for flutes, 2 stops for vibrato, 2 stops for percussion, a stop for reverb, 4 toggle stops for sound mixtures. A switch selects between sine and formant registers.