https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJN9ZdScZ_w&hd=1 Recently our good friend and associate Robert Becker restored and customized an Optigan® 35012 for Rami Jaffee of Foo Fighters and Wallflowers fame
Optigan® Featured in Aug 2014 Issue of TREASURES Magazine
Pea was recently interviewed for a short featured on the Optigan® in the latest issues of TREASURES Magazine (Aug 2014). Be sure to pick up a copy!
The Organist Episode 20: Enter the Optigan
Way back in the 90s, Pea was filmed for inclusion in a documentary about collectors by filmmaker Rodney Ascher. The film never got finished, but the footage has now resurfaced as a stand-alone episode
One of the Long-Lost Optigan® TV Commercials Finally Found!
http://youtu.be/MY4hyWds6Qk Very cool news! I knew that eventually an Optigan® TV commercial would turn up! Youtube user chumrain writes this:
Finally…one has been found (I know that several people
Optigan® Heavily Featured on new Matthew Leonard Album
Matthew Leonard has released “I Will Be A Good Boy And Promise To No Longer Hurt Myself,” and album of lo-fi pop/rock weirdness that features lots of optigan.com’s favorite instrument! Matthew sent me
The Price is Right: April Fools 1975
Our April Fool’s post can’t hold a candle to this Price Is Right clip from 1975! Thanks to Jared Rainer for spotting this one- priceless!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVSEuB9tvJI
Optigan® Pro: A Long-Lost Optigan® Prototype?
Elsewhere on the Optigan® site, you may have read about the prototype Optigans produced by Miner Industries after they took over production from Mattel. Pea has asked former Opsonar employees if they
Optigan® Family Portrait
Robert sent me this nice shot he took of my Talentmaker posing with his two Orchestron Model A’s and his Optigan® 35012!
Optigan® on Live Dutch TV Show
Marcel Groot pointed us to this fantastic Optigan® segment on Kunststof TV, a Dutch arts talk show. Marcel is seen first in the clip demonstrating the Optigan®, and then we see Nico Brandsen live in t
Laurie Anderson plays Optigan® at Cantos Music Foundation
Here’s not one, but two articles on our good friend Laurie Anderson’s recent visit to the Cantos Music Foundation in Calgary. Notable are the pics of her playing the Optigan®, and her comments about i