Farfisa Melanie Deluxe (1981)

Documentation on the Farfisa Melanie Deluxe is thin. The record shows an electric organ, made in Italy in the early 1980s, released in 1981 at an original price around $2,500. That's about all the hard facts that survive on the instrument itself.

No technical specifications have surfaced in any source. That means no power, dimensions, weight, outputs, keyboard size or synthesis type. Nothing is documented about its circuit design either, or where it sat in the Farfisa lineup relative to the better-known Compact series.

The Melanie Deluxe does appear to have found a second life as samples. Precisionsound released a sample library of the instrument, and the "Skinny Organ Collection" bundle holds three libraries: Eminent 275, Melanie Deluxe, and Mighty U90. The Precisionsound library does not work with the free Kontakt Player, so you need a full version. The bundle was offered at $49, normally valued at $87. The organ has also turned up in a few cover recordings - Samuel Siebenstein's versions of "You're Not Alone" and "A Matter of Time" are credited as played on the Melanie DeLuxe.

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