The original price was $995 ($8,700 as of 2022), which was one of the most expensive single-manual combo organs at that time. A Gibson G-201 organ was introduced at the same time, which is a spinet organ with two manuals, but otherwise has the same electronics, but not as many features. The name was changed to Gibson G-101 shortly thereafter, in order to encourage sales, and production continued until 1969. The G-101 was first introduced in 1966 as the Kalamazoo K-101, as that name was used by Gibson for its budget range of equipment. Lowery had already produced several combo organs, beginning in 1946. Both companies were owned by Chicago Musical Instruments. The instrument was introduced by Gibson in 1967 but produced in the U.S. However, it was used by some popular musicians at the time, particularly The Doors' Ray Manzarek. The instrument was not as commercially successful as the Continental and Farfisa, and less than 2,000 models were sold. Because the organ was manufactured by Lowrey, the G-101 can create similar sounds to that company's console organs manufactured at the time. It provided a 61-key manual with a variety of stops accessed by rocker switches and a separate bass system. The G-101 was produced in response to similar combo organs such as the Vox Continental and Farfisa, though it had a wider range of features such as foldback as seen on a Hammond organ. The Gibson G-101 (or Gibson Portable Organ, also known as the Kalamazoo K-101) is a transistorised combo organ, manufactured in the late 1960s by the Lowrey Organ Company for Gibson (guitar company).
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