Yes, I’m admitting I didn’t know something. Not arguing your facts. So no, I hadn’t seen the synthpedia.net info…
I was trying to give a sincere answer above to your original question, which I am now regretting.
Thats okay. I just hope we start getting one or two of them again. the second hand prices are scandalous. Over £10K and more.
Not really electronic but Clint Boon used rock a Compact Duo back when no one else was really using them
I’ve seen an OMD video where they’re using one too. Maybe on OGWT?
But as others have said the genesis of the dual manual was traditional pipe organs which the original Hammond was built to emulate. By the late 70’s there were plenty dual manuals around more akin to the Vox Continental and the Farfisa from Italian manufacturers such as Crumar. The more ‘top end’ models had basic monosynths built in (I’ve got/had a few over the years) and in the USA the Moog Satellite found its was into a few home organs. I’ve got a Yamaha C605P, one of the last of the Yamaha Analogue era which can get quite ‘synthy’
As @Jukka has pointed out the reincarnated Crumar brand has the Mojo but it’s styke and layout hark more toward the combo organs of the 60’s and 70’s. There is also the Viscount Legend Organ
https://www.viscountinstruments.com/instrument/legend/
It would be interesting to see a manufacturer bring out a modern dual manual but they’re hamstrung in their very nature (two Un-interchangeable keyboards in one package) when the current trend is to make stuff smaller). It would be a niche product for sure
I had a 2 manual Hammond home organ and I was shocked at how hard the technique was. I can play piano pretty well too. So, for these to sell there would need to be a stock of musicians with that technique, and there just isn’t. Prog rock players often played organ in church, I think that’s true of Hugh Banton, Wakeman and Emerson. In the US a lot of keyboardist played Hammond in church in the R and B scene. But it’s just not common anymore
Organ playing is indeed pretty different from piano and keyboard playing.
If you call a Hydrasynth your own, which better complementary controller than a Linnstrument in MPE mode could you imagine? Better than two manuals of the same imo.