Thomas P-350 Transistor Organ (Blue Jag?)

[hjb1990]

Can anyone shed any light on this organ I recently acquired? It was owned by 'The Cure' guitarist Porl Thompson. There is little info on the Internet and I'd like to know a little more about it and about hooking up a speaker to it to hear it play? Hopefully the link will work, there should be 4 pictures.

Thanks in advance,
Harry

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[combonautfreak]

Hi Harry,

This organ was made by GEM (Galanti) around 1967 and was the Thomas-branded version of the GEM model P and Vox Jaguar V304 (GEM version). It's all GEM inside, You can detect giveway features such as the curved tabs and same knobs used on the Doric/Ekosonic organs (again, GEM-built as well).
This particular organ has an added 'Timber' tone control wich the GEM-made Jaguar and early model P both lack. Later Model Ps would add a vibrato speed control and later V304E Jaguars would have the 'Contour' tone control (those are not made by GEM though, but by EME).


Otherwise, all the insides are the same (GE 7T2/b: tone generators, GE V: vibrato, low C and bass board, same power supply and filter board)
Apart from the Timber knob, differences are the placement of the Vibrato tab (righmost) and voice names. (still the same filters though)

Here are the comparisons between the control panels: (R): righmost tab (L): lefmost tab (°): knob control

MODEL P: Vibrato (L) - Bass Chords - Horns - Strings - Reeds - Flutes (R) - Bass Volume (°)

VOX V304: Vibrato (L) - Bass Chords - Flute - Bright - Brass - Mellow (R) - Bass Volume (°)

THOMAS: Vibrato (R) - Solo Bass (L) - Broad - Full Octaves - Brass - Mixtures - Bass Volume (°) - Timber (°)

note: the voices, while having different namings, have the same filter circuits in the same order.

Hope that shed some light as you asked.

Could you possibly send me pictures of the electronics, so that I could help draw the schematics?

My e-mail is [e-mail]

Let me know,

All the best,

Charles