We always sold more of the 'bread and butter' smaller models than the larger deluxe ones. Hammond had a head start with the tonewheel consoles, but the M soon outsold them. I wouldn't sale that Lowrey' sales pattern was any different to Wurlitzer, Hammond, Conn etc. My own experience dates from the 1970s, but I doubt if was any different in the 1950s or 1960s. It is harder to catalog Lowrey's early transistor models, and I haven't put in the effort, but they can generally be identified by their conservative styling (nice wood, and no brightly colored tabs!), and the model numbers begin with T, such as TLO, TBO, TPS, etc.Ī few thoughts. As well, the earliest Story & Clark organs were built by Lowrey and are tube models, but there is very little information on these, and I've never seen one. It uses different tone generation and shaping principles from the self-contained Lowreys. There is also the 'Organo' (Lowrey's first product), but it is not a self-contained organ, rather an attachment for acoustic piano, which can occasionally be seen built into pianos directly.

For example, the type of sustain system used (or lack of it on earliest models) is a significant difference some models have true sustain, while others have reverb-like sustain. These are all designed on very similar principles and thus have characteristic 'Lowrey' sounds, though with some variation. Lincolnwood-25 Deluxe, Festival Deluxe, Church Deluxe: SSO-25, FLO, CHO (same except cabinet & speakers).Holiday: LS, LSA, LSB, LSC, LSC-1, LSC-DUO, LSL, LSO.Festival, Church, Coronation: FL, CN, CH (same except cabinetry and internal speaker arrangement).My article here describes what I believe are all the tube-based Lowrey models, though not in a convenient list form.

Lowrey roll top organ models