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  • Page 2: Important Safety Instructions

    IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS WARNING - When using electric products, basic precau- This product may be equipped with a tions should always be followed, including the following. polarized line plug (one blade wider than the other). This is a safety feature. If you are unable to insert the plug into the outlet, contact an electri- Read all the instructions before using the cian to replace your obsolete outlet.
  • Page 3 Welcome To The Lowrey Family! Congratulations on your decision to step up to one of the elite instruments in the Lowrey collection - the Holiday Classic, a One-Touch Digital Orchestra. The Holiday Classic delivers an incredible variety of recre- ational music making opportunities with sounds that span the globe and features that open up a world of expressive possibilities.
  • Page 4 Table of Contents Category Name is followed by the page number. 10, 43 3, 70 20, 32 Holiday Classic Headphones...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Bank Preset Functions • Using This Guide ....1 • Reset Button .....1 Save Presets .
  • Page 6 Orchestral & Solo • Feature Page 1 Section ......54 USB ......73 •...
  • Page 7 • Feature Page 12 Controllers .....81 • Feature Page 13 Rename Presets ....82 •...

  • Page 9: Using This Guide

    You will have your own preferences and consequently will not be using those capabilities that are of no interest to you. This is perfectly normal. Be assured from Lowrey that when you are using your favorite , you will be enjoying what this instrument has to offer.

  • Page 10: Let's Get Started

    This button will light as will several other buttons on the button panel. Without touching another button, the Holiday Classic gives you that “Sweet Lowrey Sound” that is called the “Power-Up” RESET sound. When you are ready to turn the organ off, simply touch and hold the red button for just a moment.

  • Page 11: Master Volume

    Maximum to Minimum Volume Volume A TIP FROM LOWREY: controls the “overall” volume level of the organ. The volume level of specific sections VOLUME PEDAL is controlled by the individual volume level controls found on the panel and in the...

  • Page 12: Display Contrast

    5. THE EASY BUTTON TRADITIONAL Like every Lowrey, there are two ways of playing the Holiday Classic: No “Easy-Play” features. You are free to use your hands on the keyboards and your feet on the pedals as you wish. For example, playing one note on the lower keyboard gives you exactly that: one note! You can use EASY-PLAY for many, many more sounds.

  • Page 13: Headphone Output

    6. HEADPHONES OUTPUT You can plug in a set of stereo headphones into the headphone jack, located to the right of the lower OUTPUT keyboard, so you can play in private. When headphones are plugged into the headphone jack the speaker system is muted.

  • Page 14: Music Rack Extender

    8. MUSIC RACK EXTENDER Below the gold-colored Lowrey logo, at the top of the organ, is a slot into which the music rack extender may be inserted. The music rack extender is designed to hold your sheet music or music books closer to you.
  • Page 15 3. You will notice that the two corners of the metal flange are bent down slightly. The bent corners will clamp the base into the cabinet. 4. Insert the left corner of the metal mounting flange into the slot in the cabinet. Slide the inserted portion of the mounting flange to the left until it meets the left edge of the mounting slot.

  • Page 16: Presets

    PRESETS PREVIEW: The Presets section demonstrates the ease of operation and how to sound good right away using the numerous preset features found on the Holiday Classic. The type of Preset active at any one time: General Preset, Rhythm Preset, Bank Preset, Category Preset, will be displayed at the bottom of the Color Display, as illustrated below.

  • Page 17: Feature

    , as listed to the left. 11 GENERAL PRESETS 0 Lowrey Organ Sound General Preset 0 is the power up sound. Just 1 Fuller Lowrey Organ Sound Flugel Horn turning the Holiday Classic on gives you that 2 Pipe Organ Church Bell ‘Sweet Lowrey Sound.’...

  • Page 18: Rhythm Preset

    TRY THIS: Try the following steps to see how the button works. RHYTHM PRESET 1. Open your black Lowrey Song Book to page 18 “Aloha, Oe.” 2. Press the button. Wait for the ‘Power Up’ screen to appear. RESET 3. Press the blue rhythm style button.

  • Page 19: Feature

    button will again be illuminated red, indicating the organ is Setup and ready to be RHYTHM PRESET played. The only other button you may wish to press is the button. INTRO/ENDING You are again ready to play! The list below is an example of how the has 11 supporting HAWAIIAN RHYTHM STYLE (ALOHA VARIATION) .

  • Page 20: Category Presets

    Category Presets What It Does: COUNTRY B. BAND LATIN SHOW give you 44, easy-to-use, upper key- CATEGORY PRESETS board registrations. Category Preset buttons are used in combination with the 10 buttons and GENERAL PRESET feature 11 beautiful registrations consistent with each musi- cal category listed above each button.

  • Page 21: Bank Presets

    GENERAL PRESET 10, activate the other 10 presets. A BANK In addition to the registrations placed in the buttons by Lowrey, you have the option of BANK PRESET changing and saving your own registration creations using the button. MEMORIZE How to save your own registrations using the Memorize button and how to recover the original Bank Presets is found in the section “Customizing A Bank Preset,”...

  • Page 22: Song Setup Presets

    A BANK B BANK UPPER LOWER RIGHT SPLIT UPPER LOWER RIGHT SPLIT 0 F Renaut Organ 0 Full AOC Chromatic Harmonica 1 Mellow Organ Solo 1 8’ Perc. Jazz Trombone 2 Pretty Organ Toy Piano* 2 Hollow Jazz 3 Mellow 2’ Organ* 3 Jazz Basic 4 Full Organ...

  • Page 23: Feature

    HERE IS A RECAP OF THE PRESET FEATURES Even if you never press another button, simply turning the organ on gives you a beautiful Lowrey organ sound. The Preset features are very powerful and valuable. By simply pressing one or two buttons the entire organ is set up and ready to play.

  • Page 24: Customizing Bank Presets

    A - B tions to those of your own creation. How It Works: Read through this procedure before doing it. Customizing a Bank Preset involves the A TIP FROM LOWREY: lettered buttons, the numbered buttons, and the red-colored BANK PRESET...

  • Page 25: Rename Bank Presets

    RESET TIP FROM LOWREY: Even though the organ has the capacity of holding 22 customized presets, it is sometimes hard to keep track of the presets. One way is to name your customized presets. with a familiar title.
  • Page 26 Rename Bank Preset What It Does: feature can be used to put your own descriptive name on your customized RENAME BANK PRESET BANK , and display them on the when used. PRESETS COLOR DISPLAY How It Works: 1. Press and hold the button.

  • Page 27: Resetting Bank Presets

    The organ features a USB data port that can be used to store a great number of custom Bank Presets permanently on your Lowrey memory stick. The memory stick storage feature is highlighted in the How To Use The Memory Stick Section, page 20.

  • Page 28: How To Use The Memory Stick

    MUSIC RECORDER formances. Playback those performances and playback the pre-recorded performances loaded onto your ‘Lowrey Holiday Classic’ memory stick. All 50 songs from the Lowrey songbook that accompanied your Holiday Classic organ are recorded on the Lowrey supplied memory stick.

  • Page 29: Formatting A Memory Stick

    Formatting is a process the Holiday Classic performs so that a memory stick and the organ will speak the same language. A new memory stick, other than the one labeled ‘Lowrey Holiday Classic’ that was sup- plied with the organ, must be formatted one time before it can be used. Once formatted, the memory stick can be used repeatedly for Music Recordings and saving Bank Presets in your Holiday Classic.

  • Page 30: Recording & Playback

    MEMORY STICK USB DATA PORT a. Swing open the protective metal covering on the Lowrey-supplied memory stick, exposing the receptacle end of the memory stick. b. Insert the memory stick, label side facing up, into the USB DATA PORT c.

  • Page 31: Record Control

    When a button is flashing red that particular track is ready to record. RED: When a button is solid green that particular track has been recorded. GREEN: A button flashes green after the procedure has been done. The track is empty but not ERASE ready to record.

  • Page 32: Merge Record

    << >> ACCOMP UPPER << >> (Rewind), (Fast Forward) buttons perform two functions. PLAY/ << >> 1. During playback, press and hold the button to rewind a recording or the button to move ERASE RECORD STOP PAUSE forward through a recording. To hear the recording simply release the button. Replay will continue at <<...

  • Page 33: Replace Record

    REPLACE RECORD What It Does: Replaces part of, or all of, what has already been recorded. How It Works: Once a track from a recording has been selected for Replace Record the Music Recorder will erase the ‘old’ notes as you play the ‘new’ notes. For example, if you wish to replace a part of a recording that is near the end of a song you can simply ‘Fast Forward’...

  • Page 34: Memory Stick Playback

    MEMORY STICK PLAYBACK The Holiday Classic will playback memory sticks recorded by you and your friends on your Lowrey Holiday Classic. Follow these steps to playback music from a compatible memory stick. 1. Insert the into the MEMORY STICK USB DATA PORT 2.

  • Page 35: Save Presets

    The Holiday Classic automatically names the preset group you have saved. In this case the name PRESET will be used as an example. Each new Preset Group saved will be given the next highest number. GROUP 1 After saving the presets you can use the feature to place your own RENAME PRESETS - RENAME PRESETS...
  • Page 36 6. Press the button. The : section of SELECT FILE NAME the screen will be highlighted. The screen will display the number 1 spot on the memory stick. Press the top button to select SCROLL the next spot (if you have already saved presets to the number 1 spot.

  • Page 37: Load Presets

    Holiday Classic. These can be presets you have created on your instrument or they can be presets that are in a Holiday Classic at your Lowrey dealer. If you are playing for your class, you could put your registrations into the at home and then save them onto a memory stick.

  • Page 38: Rename Presets

    9. Press either button. You will see a confirming message and then the display will return to its SCROLL power up condition. To cancel the load presets procedure press the button at any point during the process. FEATURE (CLEAR) RENAME PRESETS How It Works: 1.

  • Page 39: Delete Presets

    DELETE PRESETS How It Works: 1. Insert the memory stick on which you saved presets into the USB PORT 2. Press the button. FEATURE (CLEAR) 3. If not already displayed, press the top button SCROLL to display the screen. 4. Press the button to highlight the SELECT CONTROL...

  • Page 40: Delete Song

    - Remove a song from the memory stick. DELETE SONG - Copy a song from one memory stick to another, or copy a song from one location on a mem- COPY SONG ory stick to a different location on the same memory stick. - The Holiday Classic will always assign a title to a song you have recorded, such as RENAME SONG DELETE SONG...

  • Page 41: Rename Song

    - Insert the second memory stick that is to receive the copied song. - Press the button. SELECT - Go to step 5. 5. Press either button to select a spot for the copied song in the section of the screen. SCROLL FILE NAME: 6.

  • Page 42: Rhythm Plus Orchestration

    .’ Many of STYLES Lowrey’s most popular styles are included along with many new and exciting ones. Each button and function for the Rhythm Plus Orchestration section is fully detailed in the following pages. You will find that many of the buttons and functions are automatic. For example, pressing any style button, like Gospel, Country, or Rock’N Roll, turns on the features: Rhythm Preset, Genie, Orch Plus, Auto Bass 1,...

  • Page 43: Parts Of The Style

    How To Use It: 1. Press any button. STYLE 2. Press the button. INTRO/ENDING 3. Play the first chord of the song on the lower keyboard. 4. Play the song- right hand upper keyboard, left hand lower keyboard. 5. At the end of the song, press the button again.

  • Page 44: Variations

    VARIATIONS VARI- ATIONS What It Does: The Holiday Classic has 90 styles. The (and ) button expands the VARIATIONS BASIC 18 styles buttons on the panel to the total of 90. All 90 style names are listed on a table in the back of the book. How It Works: Press any one of the 18 style buttons.

  • Page 45: Basic

    BASIC BASIC What It Does: The Holiday Classic has, in addition to style variations 0, 1, 2 and 3, a BASIC for each of the 18 core styles. is a simpler style that is very easy VARIATION BASIC to follow. How It Works: styles use fewer musical elements and isolates the drum beat to make it more pronounced.

  • Page 46: Drum Volume

    DRUM VOLUME What It Does: DRUMS controls the volume of the drum sounds in a style. It also serves DRUM VOLUME as part of the “beat” indicator along with the two temp buttons. Notice the words to the left of the bottom blue button. DOWN BEAT How It Works: To raise the volume, press the top button.

  • Page 47: Start Stop

    What It Does: When a style is playing, applying adds a professional sounding fill-in or rhythmic break. How It Works: There are three ways TOUCH BAR of activating 1. By touching the located TOUCH BAR below the lower keyboard. FX/Golden Harp 2.

  • Page 48: Tempo

    AUTO BASS 1 & 2 What It Does: AUTO BASS is the Lowrey easy-play feature that plays the bass pedals for AUTO BASS you. It gives you a choice of two dynamic bass patterns for each style. How It Works:...

  • Page 49: Genie & Orch Plus

    GENIE & ORCH PLUS What It Does: ORCH PLUS GENIE buttons allow you to determine how much of GENIE ORCH PLUS the “rest of the band” you will hear when using a style. The GENIE buttons represent specific parts of the band or orchestra with- ORCH PLUS in a style that can be used separately or together.

  • Page 50: Locks

    How It Works: Pressing the button turns it on, causing it to light. While the button is lighted, that setting or group of set- tings, are locked so they will not change. Locks any Tempo settings that are in use when the button is pressed. TEMPO: (Accompaniment) locks the lower keyboard settings, styles, and Graphic Mixer ACCOMP:...

  • Page 51: Rhythm Preset

    RHYTHM PRESET RHYTHM was covered in detail earlier in the “Let’s Get Started” section. RHYTHM PRESET While the button is not located in the rhythm plus orchestration RHYTHM PRESET section of the button panel, it is an important rhythm feature. PRESET What It Does: provides 11 complete registrations (sounds, volumes, effects, etc.) on the upper key-...

  • Page 52: Mcs

    How It Works: is Lowrey’s chord recognition system that has the unique ability to respond to different methods of forming lower keyboard chords. MCS will reply whether you form one and two finger MCS chords or if you play multi-fingered chords. Pressing a style button activates and lights the red, blue, and green chord lights.

  • Page 53: Minor Chord

    For example, to play a Cm ( C Minor) chord, you need to play a C note and the E FLAT note to the right of the C note. Be sure to press both keys down at the same time. (C7, D7, B 7, etc.) Any Seventh chord can be played with the traditional four notes OR SEVENTH CHORD: two notes.

  • Page 54: No Chord (N.c.)

    90. At this point in the Owner’s Manual, all the easy-play and preset features that make playing a Lowrey easy and fun have been reviewed. If you go no further, you will be able to fully utilize the capabilities of the Holiday Classic and make an amazingly dynamic variety of music.

  • Page 55: The Organ Section

    BASS keyboard flute buttons are LOWER UPPER CLEAR, YELLOW, BROWN, GREEN GRAY flute buttons are the famous “Sweet Lowrey Organ Sounds.” CLEAR flute buttons are the beautiful symphonic strings. YELLOW flute buttons are vocal sounds. BROWN flute buttons turn the sustain effect on and off for the flutes, strings and vocal buttons.

  • Page 56: Bass Buttons

    LOWER/PEDAL VOLUME USING A PRESET OR A STYLE WILL SELECT THE PEDAL SOUND AND VOLUME REMEMBER: LEVEL FOR YOU AUTOMATICALLY. A TIP FROM LOWREY You never need to play the pedals. Using the button, , or playing with a will EASY AUTO BASS 1 &...

  • Page 57: Lower Buttons

    LOWER SUSTAIN: FLUTE STRINGS 8 VOCAL ENSEMBLE buttons. The traditional organ sounds that produce the “Sweet Lowrey Sound.” These buttons offer FLUTES 8, 4: Flute (organ) sounds, alone or in combination, with the other sounds. Organ Section...

  • Page 58: Upper Buttons

    These buttons provide you with many beautiful sounds for the upper keyboard. FLUTES 16, 8, The traditional organ sounds that produce the “Sweet Lowrey Sound.” These buttons offer 5 1/3, 4, 2: many flute (organ) sounds, alone or in combination, with the other sounds.

  • Page 59: Sustain

    How It Works: Sustain levels are preset from Lowrey and do not need to be changed. The sustain length is adjustable and has a numeric value from 0 (no sustain) to 100 (maximum sustain). Sustain settings can be changed by following these steps.

  • Page 60: Genius

    GENIUS What It Does: The word on a button means that you have the option of assigning any number of sounds, from the GENIUS , to that button. GENIUS VOICE LIST The Genius buttons are: (orange), (red) and PEDAL GENIUS LOWER GENIUS ORCH GENIUS SOLO GENIUS...
  • Page 61 The beauty of your Lowrey is that when you use the preset features you are utilizing the GENIUS SOUNDS We at Lowrey created the presets so you can get the benefit of great sounds and features by pressing just one or two buttons.

  • Page 62: Orchestral & Solo Section

    For example, if you are creating big band registrations, start with the BIG BAND category presets and then make changes. Save those changes to a BANK PRESET A TIP FROM LOWREY: When you turn on the Holiday Classic the upper keyboard & buttons are on. There may...
  • Page 63 What It Does: Going beyond what the presets will do, you can experiment for an almost unlimited amount of possibilities for “just the right sound.” Remember, if you find a combination you like, save it to a BANK PRESET How It Works: The definition of orchestral and solo sounds and how they differ is important.

  • Page 64: Portamento

    PORTAMENTO PORTA- MENTO What It Does: creates a smooth, uninterrupted gliding effect from one note to anoth- PORTAMENTO er, when using a solo sound. An example of portamento would be a slide trombone player sliding from one note to another. How It Works: button will light whenever certain solo sound buttons are pressed.
  • Page 65 How It Works: The left button, The right button, , is Pressing both TRANSPOSE TRANSPOSE UP TRANSPOSE , is labeled with a left-point- labeled with a right-pointing triangle buttons at the same time DOWN ing triangle and a flat ( ) symbol. and a sharp ( ) symbol.

  • Page 66: Glide/Sustain

    GLIDE & SUSTAIN What It Does: on the has two facto- LEFT FOOT SWITCH VOLUME PEDAL ry set functions that will affect certain orchestral and solo sounds - the effects. GLIDE SUSTAIN How It Works: The Holiday Classic assigns either the effect, GLIDE SUSTAIN...

  • Page 67: Upper On-Orchestral

    How To Use It: allows you to use your right hand on the lower keyboard to play a melody. Now you can KEYBOARD SPLIT have one sound on the top keyboard and a contrasting sound on the lower keyboard for fast and easy regis- tration changes.

  • Page 68: Upper On-Solo

    UPPER ON - Solo Pressing the blue solo button, turning it on, enables two sounds - one red orchestral, and one blue UPPER ON LOWER RIGHT - Solo solo, to be playable on the upper keyboard. Pressing the blue solo button, turning it on, will activate the keyboard split feature and make LOWER RIGHT any solo sound playable on the lower keyboard, to the right of the split point.

  • Page 69: Orch & Solo Volume

    The buttons control the overall volume SOLO VOLUME level of the blue solo sounds. The volume level for each sound is preset from the Lowrey factory. The numerous presets also set the volume levels for you. VOLUME VOLUME...

  • Page 70: Graphic Mixer Section

    PREVIEW: GRAPHIC MIXER of your Lowrey, plus the reverberation effect. Turning the organ on or pressing the button sets all RESET levels to the “Power-Up” setting. Any changes made in this section can be saved to a Preset.

  • Page 71: Bass

    BASS ORCH PLUS The orange buttons control the volume of the pedals or bass sounds. (Press both at once to BASS LOCK buttons control the volume of the instrumental portion of the styles. (Press both at once to ORCH PLUS LOCK LOWER UPPER STRING/VOCAL...

  • Page 72: Harmony Section

    Selecting one of the four harmony styles will change the upper keyboard sounds selected. Harmony uses whatever sounds that are selected to create the additional harmony notes. is a Lowrey all-time favorite! takes all the (left hand) notes you are playing on the lower key- DUET board (MCS or Traditional) and adds them below the melody note you are playing on the upper keyboard.
  • Page 73 1. Press the button. RESET 2. Open your black to Amazing Grace. LOWREY SONGBOOK 3. Press and the button. GENERAL PRESET #1 EASY 4. Play a few notes of Amazing Grace using one-finger notes on the upper keyboard and one-finger chords on the lower keyboard.

  • Page 74: Golden Harp

    What It Does: GOLDEN HARP is another favorite, long time Lowrey feature that adds a graceful GOLDEN HARP arpeggio that acts as a background or accompaniment to your songs. Arpeggios are the tones of a chord, played in succession, that create up and down sound runs.

  • Page 75: Volume Pedal

    (changes in the volume level) to the music being VOLUME PEDAL played. A TIP FROM LOWREY: controls the overall volume level. The volume level of specific sections is controlled VOLUME PEDAL by the individual volume level controls found on the panel and in the section of the organ.

  • Page 76: Foot Switches

    Foot Switches What It Does: Glide/Sustain FX/Golden Harp activate specific features that affect certain FOOT SWITCHES operations. How It Works: There are two foot operated switches; one at the top left and one at the top right sides of the .

  • Page 77: Touch Bar

    Touch Bar What It Does: is the black strip below the lower TOUCH BAR keyboard. The touch bar can be used to activate TOUCH BAR the FX feature when a style is playing. A selection of five functions may be assigned to the touch bar. How It Works: The touch bar is touch sensitive and is activated with to the touch of a finger.

  • Page 78: Color Display

    Color Display The “Power Up” Screen Look at the big screen in the center of the button panel. This is the color display. When you turn the organ on an introductory picture will appear. When the organ is fully powered, or after the button is pressed, it displays RESET screen, shown to the right.

  • Page 79: Power Up Screen

    Feature Pages There are viewable on the . Each feature page contains a PREVIEW: 17 FEATURE PAGES COLOR DISPLAY different category of features and controls. You may never use all of the features that will be shown in this section. Using the various presets, described at the beginning of this book, will automatically activate many NAVIGATION of them for you.

  • Page 80: Scroll Buttons

    How To Use It: Press the button. It will light up and the FEATURE (CLEAR) first will be displayed. Press the top FEATURE PAGE button one time to view the second feature page. SCROLL Each time you press the top scroll button the next feature page is displayed.

  • Page 81: Usb

    1. USB PREVIEW: provides eight control categories: USB FEATURE PAGE : Move presets stored on the USB memory stick LOAD PRESETS into the bank presets. Move custom presets saved on the USB SAVE PRESETS: memory stick to the Bank Preset. Place meaningful names on custom presets RENAME PRESETS: saved on the USB memory stick.

  • Page 82: Lower/Pedal Volume

    2. Lower/Pedal Volume PREVIEW: provides three volume control categories: LOWER/PEDAL VOLUME FEATURE PAGE : Adjust the volume level of the lower Strings 8 and Vocal Ensemble sounds. LOWER STRING/VOCAL Adjust the volume level of lower Genius sounds. LOWER GENIUS: Adjust the volume level of Pedal Genius sounds. PEDAL GENIUS: All volume levels are preset from the factory and may never need to be adjusted to fully enjoy the Holiday Classic.

  • Page 83: Orch Effects

    How To Use It: •Press the Feature (Clear) button and then press the top SCROLL button repeatedly to highlight , as illus- FEATURE: SUSTAIN LENGTH trated to the right. •Press the button to highlight the section of the screen. SELECT CONTROL •Press either button repeatedly to display the different sections in which sustain amount may be...

  • Page 84: Solo Effects

    •Press either button repeatedly to display the different effect parameters. SCROLL •Press the button when the desired parameter is listed. The section of the screen will become SELECT VALUE highlighted. •Press the top button to increase the value of the selected parameter of the selected effect. SCROLL Press the bottom button to decrease the value.

  • Page 85: Feature Pages

    How much of the effect do you want? AMOUNT: How fast or slow do you want the effect to be? RATE: How deep, shallow, quick, bright, or long do you want this DEPTH - ACCELERATION - FEED BACK: effect to be? Choose a slow or fast setting for the Rotary effect.

  • Page 86: Lower Sound Effects

    7. Lower Sound Effects PREVIEW: allows you to turn the bottom 12 notes on the lower keyboard into LOWER SOUND EFFECTS FEATURE PAGE sound effects, as illustrated below. CHURCH LOWER KEYBOARD SOUND EFFECTS BELL JINGLE BARK BELLS PLANE HORSE THUNDER GALLUP TELEPHONE HORSE...

  • Page 87: Main Kit

    How To Use It: •Press the Feature (Clear) button and then press either SCROLL button repeatedly to highlight , as FEATURE: KEYED DRUMS illustrated to the right. •Press the button to highlight the section of the screen. SELECT CONTROL •Press either button to display the settings: SCROLL MAIN KIT...

  • Page 88: Feature

    10. Edit Genius - SHORTCUT=FEATURE + ANY GENIUS BUTTON PREVIEW: gives you the ability to change (edit) the sounds. EDIT GENIUS FEATURE PAGE GENIUS Genius sound settings are preset from the factory and may never need to be adjusted to fully enjoy the Holiday Classic.

  • Page 89: Repeat

    11. Repeat PREVIEW: allows you to add a repeating effect to orchestral and solo sounds. REPEAT FEATURE PAGE Repeat settings are preset from the factory and may never need to be changed to fully enjoy the Holiday Classic. When the need arises to add repeat follow these steps. How To Use It: •Press the Feature (Clear) button and then press the bottom button repeatedly to highlight...

  • Page 90: Feature

    How To Use It: •Press the Feature (Clear) button and then press the bottom button repeatedly to highlight SCROLL FEATURE: CONTROLLERS as illustrated to the right. •Press the button to highlight the section of the screen. SELECT CONTROL •Press either button to display three controller options: SCROLL LEFT FOOT SWITCH...

  • Page 91: Next Preset

    In the case of preset , press any of the numbered buttons that may be on, turning them off. •When the desired bank letter and preset number are displayed in the section of the screen, press the BANK button. The section of the screen will become highlighted.

  • Page 92: Play Songs

    gives you the ability to move through just the general presets, category presets or rhythm presets NO BANKS by pressing the right foot switch. For example, GENERAL PRESET 0 GENERAL PRESET 10 Remember, moves from the preset currently selected. NEXT PRESET Press the lighted button to implement the selections/settings made and return to the FEATURE(CLEAR)

  • Page 93: Light Show

    -Light Show 1 leaves the visible on the screen. FEATURE PAGE -Light Show 2 hides the feature page and shows ‘ ’ and ‘ .’ LOWREY HOLIDAY CLASSIC •To stop either light show press either button. SCROLL Press the lighted...

  • Page 94: Connections

    MIDI, AUX IN, AUX OUT and VIDEO connections are located on a panel on the back side of the Holiday Classic. You never need to use these connections to fully enjoy playing the Lowrey Holiday MIDI IN, OUT, THRU: Classic. These are the connections used for connecting other MIDI equipped devices to your organ. Any MIDI equipped device’s manual will describe connection and operation.

  • Page 95: Rhythm Style

    Styles Button VARIATIONS Name Basic Basic Big Band Swing Band Swing Train Chicago Swing Frank & The Count Big Band Spots of Ink Basic Fox Trot Fox Trot Champagne Charleston Dixieland EZ Country Basic Country Country Swing The Train Roadside Cafe´ Country Basic Gospel Revival...

  • Page 96: Genius Voice List

    GENIUS Voice List Genius Voice Name Genius Voice Name Genius Voice Name Accordion Ens: Big Band Organ: Baroque Accordion: Lyric Ens: Orch. Reeds Organ: Bass Pipe Accordion: Musette Ens: Trom.+ OctTrpt Organ: Bombarde Animal: Cat Ethereal Organ: Church Animal: Dog Fiddle Organ: Full Pipes Bag Pipe...
  • Page 97 Genius Voice Name Genius Voice Name Genius Voice Name Sax: Alto Test-Sound Vocal: Bah (Dao) Sax: Alto Dynamic Theremin Vocal: Doo Sax: Alto Mellow Timpani Vocal: Doo (Dao) Timpani: Rolling Sax: Baritone Vocal: La Sax: New Years Trombone Vocal: Ooo Sax: Tenor - 50’s Trombone: Muted Vocal: Wah...

  • Page 98: Mcs Chord Chart

    Chord Chart The chart below illustrates how to form certain chords on the lower keyboard using MCS: CHORD MAJOR MINOR MIN 7th MAJ 7th SUS 4th MIN 7th 5 (1 note) (2 notes) (2 notes) (2 notes) (3 notes) (3 notes) (2 notes) (3 notes) (4 notes)

  • Page 99: Song Setup List

    Song Set Up List Abide With Me Birthday Song, The Ach, Du Lieber Augustine Blue Bayou Achy Breaky Heart Blue Christmas After The Ball Blue Danube Waltz Ain’t Misbehavin’ Blue Hawaii Ain’t She Sweet? Blue Velvet Alexander’s Ragtime Band Blueberry Hill All I Ask Of You Brazil All I Do Is Dream Of You...
  • Page 100 Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree Help Me Make Through The Night Down By The Riverside He’s Got The Whole World (InHis Hands) Down In The Valley Hey Jude Downtown Hey There (You w/the Stars In Your Eyes) Dream Hey, Good Lookin’ Du, Du Liegst Mir Im Herzen Hey, Look Me Over Easter Parade...
  • Page 101 Lady Of Spain On The Sunny Side Of The Street Last Date, The Once In A While Let Me Call You Sweetheart Only You Let Me Entertain You Orange Blossom Special Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers Little Brown Jug Peg O’...
  • Page 102 Stand By Your Man Way Down Yonder In New Orleans Star Dust Way We Were, The Stars And Stripes Forever We Gather Together Stranger In Paradise (Polovetzian Dance) We Wish You A Merry Christmas Strangers In The Night We’ve Only Just Begun Stripper, The What A Friend We Have In Jesus Summer Place Theme, A...

  • Page 103: Feature Index

    Feature Index ABC’s Button - 2 Alter Style - 37 Animation Section - 63 Feature (Clear) - 71 Accomp Lock - 41 Feature Pages - 71 Flute Vibra Trem - 63 AOC - 64, AOC All - 77 Foot Switches - 68, 58, 81 AOC Auto AOC - 77 Format USB - 21 Auto Bass 1 &...
  • Page 104 Left Foot Switch - 68, 58, 81 Pedal Genius - 74 Light Show - 85 Pedals - 69 Load Presets - 29 Play Songs - 84 Locks Portamento - 56 Accomp - 41, Tempo - 41 Power Button - 2 Lower - 63 Power Up Screen - 70, 3 Lower Buttons - 49...
  • Page 105 Start Stop - 39 Sustain - 51, 68, 81 Sustain Length - 74 Tempo - 40 Tempo Lock - 41 Touch Bar - 69, 81, 39 Three Part - 64 Transpose - 56 Upper Buttons - 50 Upper Flutes - 74 Upper Octave - 60 Upper On-Orchestral - 59 Upper On-Solo - 60...

  • Page 106: Warranty Statement

    Additional expenses of explaining features and organ operation not included. Lowrey shall not be responsible for any warranties offered in addition to this warranty. Lowrey shall not be liable for and excludes incidental or consequential damages which may be incurred. Implied warranties are limited to the expressed warranty.
  • Page 107 GROUNDING/EARTHING INSTRUCTIONS This product must be grounded/Earther. If it should malfunction or breakdown, grounding/earthing provides a path of least resistance for electric current to reduce the risk of electric shock. This product is equipped with a cord having an equip- ment-grounding/earthing conductor and a grounding/earthing plug.

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