Up until 2011, Lowrey organs were built in LaGrange Park, Illinois. In 1989, the Lowrey Organ Company produced its 1,000,000th organ. Lowrey C500 Celebration electronic organ (1977) Lowrey Genie 44 electronic organ (1970s)ĭuring the 1960s and 1970s, Lowrey was the largest manufacturer of electronic organs in the world. A Lowrey Royale SU500 / Palladium 630 organ (high end model) Lowrey Holiday Deluxe Model LSL (1961) has a built-in Leslie speaker. It was first sold in 1949 It was a successful competitor to the Hammond Solovox. This added electronic organ stops on 60 notes while keeping the piano functionality. Lowrey had earlier developed an attachment for a piano. It was called the Model S Spinet or Berkshire. It was in 1955, the year he died, that Lowrey's full-sized electronic organ was first commercially successful. He was a Chicago-based industrialist and entrepreneur. The Lowrey organ is an electronic organ named for its developer, Frederick C.
