JEN brio 61-p

[greenbanana]

I recently found my grandpas old JEN brio 61-p electronic keyboard.
I was wondering,What year is it from?
According to the following link, It is an Italian made 1964 but the keyboard in the pictures looks different than one I found.
https://m.matrixsynth.com/2010/08/60s-vintage-jen-brio-61-p-synth-organ.html
 My Keyboard lacks the writings on the top and some buttons are missing.
Can someone tell me what year it is from and maybe give a quick rundown about the company?

[greenbanana]

No one?
Well, that just makes this keyboard more interesting

[hfmadopter]

I recently found my grandpas old JEN brio 61-p electronic keyboard.
I was wondering,What year is it from?
According to the following link, It is an Italian made 1964 but the keyboard in the pictures looks different than one I found.
https://m.matrixsynth.com/2010/08/60s-vintage-jen-brio-61-p-synth-organ.html
 My Keyboard lacks the writings on the top and some buttons are missing.
Can someone tell me what year it is from and maybe give a quick rundown about the company?

About the only info I've found on this is that it may be a synth organ, just as you found. It appears the date would be in deed the 1960s. But this is totatlly unsubstantiated, rather loose internet info.

Interesting, does it work ?

[greenbanana]

It works like a charm.
It has a few problems for example it likes to make high pitch noises when turned on but not played but nothing that prevents playing it.

[hfmadopter]

It works like a charm.
It has a few problems for example it likes to make high pitch noises when turned on but not played but nothing that prevents playing it.

I remember back in the 60s ( when I was a teen ager I might add) when small organ synths were showing up in rock bands and they got dubbed rock organs back then. At least in our area and in our age group that was the case. And I suppose that's only if you used one in a rock band ! They did have some feed back issues and you would or could get that squealing. With today's electronics that's all but gone.

 I had a school friend that was part of a local rock band and they were looking for a rock organ player. All I knew at the time was accordion, feeling inadequate at the ripe age of 14 I didn't bite. The conundrum of it all is I had 4 years of accordian lessons and these guys just got together and started teaching themselves guitar and drums and were out playing gigs. I felt an inch tall, nobody needed an accordian player in a rock band. As it turns out now I like other kinds of music better anyway. And you know back then the organ in a rock band just banged out a bunch of cords to a beat anyway ( basically a cadence of triads in two hands), I would not have been happy doing that but didn't know it at the time.

But hey, thank's for the memories dredged up with your grand dads synth ( wow that's getting to be a long time ago now) !