Byron Melcher was an executive with the Thomas Organ Company

Thomas Organ Company

The Thomas Organ Company was a manufacturer of electronic keyboards and a one-time holder of the manufacturing rights to the Moog synthesizer. The Company was a force behind early electronic organs for the home....

, a concert organist, and a recording artist on electronic organ

Electronic organ

An electronic organ is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally, it was designed to imitate the sound of pipe organs, theatre organs, band sounds, or orchestral sounds....

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...

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Mr. Melcher was a district manager for the Thomas and Vox lines in Texas. In 1968 he was promoted to manager of promotions for the Thomas Organ division. In 1969 he was a featured artist on the Thomas Company "A Fair to Remember" tour, which featured Dick Clark as MC. That summer he became head of publicity for Thomas. In 1970 he was the Los Angeles Theater Organ Society monthly artist. His featured piece was the Overture to "The Virgin of Macarena."

He recorded for Concert Recording, Replica Records, and United Artists Records

United Artists Records

United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 initially to distribute records of its movie soundtracks, though it soon branched out into recording music of a number of different genres.-History:...

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