Editing Electone (section)

==History==
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After [[Hammond organ|Hammond]] pioneered the [[electronic organ]] in the 1930s, other manufacturers began to market their own versions of the instrument. By the end of the 1950s, familiar brand names of home organs in addition to Hammond included [[C.G. Conn|Conn]], [[Kimball International|Kimball]], [[Lowrey organ|Lowrey]], and others, while companies such as [[Allen Organ Company|Allen]] and [[Rodgers Instruments|Rodgers]] manufactured large electronic organs designed for church and other public settings.

What would later become the Yamaha Electone emerged as a prototype concept in 1958, then named "E-T". The Electone series finally made its commercial debut in 1959 with the D-1, a home instrument. By 1980, with the market waning sharply, and some manufacturers ceasing production, the Electone line embraced [[Digital data|digital]] [[technology]]. This allowed Electone's survival as the traditional home electronic organ market dried up. The product name "Electone", coined from the word "Electronic" and "Tone", would become so popular in Japan that in later years, it would become a way to refer to electronic organs in general in the country.

Electones built until 1983 were often similar in specifications to a small [[theatre organ]], with a main flute group analogous to the [[Tibia Clausa]], strings (usually at 8' and 4'), and multiple reeds at 16' and 8' pitches.

Starting with the D-3, Electones featured theatre organ-style color coding for the tone levers, which followed as: white for flutes and diapasons, red for reeds (brass and woodwinds), yellow for string voices (including piano and guitar), and green for percussion voices.

Unlike theatre organs however, the tone levers could be individually made louder, similar to a [[Hammond organ|drawbar organ]], and had 3 click positions, although they could be adjusted between them. 

By the 1980s, many of the most famous names had ceased home production, but the Electone had successfully transitioned into the modern world of digital [[synthesizers]] {{citation needed|date=February 2013}}.

The FE, and FX lines introduced in 1983, marked a transition from [[theatre organ|Theater organ]] styled instruments, with push buttons being used for selecting sounds, instead of tone levers, which would be carried over to future models and lines afterwards.

It would come to compete with new products from  [[Moog Music]], [[Wersi]], and later [[Kurzweil Music Systems|Kurzweil]]. Electones were to be found not only in homes, especially in [[Japan]] and elsewhere in the [[East Asia]], but also in bands and other solo and group public performances.{{citation needed|date=February 2013}}