Tropical Fish Vintage Instruments

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Tropical Fish Vintage Instruments

We make music and sell vintage & vintage-inspired keyboards & tube amplifiers.

11/08/2026

There are probably a thousand ways to play a song as great as Let’s Stay Together by Al Green. I’m trying a mellow version. What do you think?

If you’re looking for a wurly, we have options! Ask about our upcoming keyboards, or we can help you find another type through our sourcing service. Details on our website or DM.

11/08/2026

We have this amazing 720 in the shop and would love to find a home for it! It has the latest Wurlitzer action (like the 145 and the 200) and has a tube amp in it. Message, or comment if you are looking for something like this.

If you’re not familiar with the 720, it is not “heavy” like an organ. The cabinet is mostly empty, but houses a bigger speaker, and a tube amp. The top is a true Wurlitzer electric piano, like the 200, but the keyboard action actually feels/plays better.

11/07/2026

Take a look at some of our favorite workshop finds available now in the Surplus Sale! DM if you’d like a link.

These Model 131 headphones are from a Wurlitzer student-model piano. Pretty sure we have a drawing of these in the factory archive as well!

Available: Peavey keyboard amp

We have two of these! One actually has less surface rust but we thought this one was more aesthetic which is why it made the cut for the slideshow.

Available: early 20th century knife switch. Perfect for Frankenstein-style mad science laboratory vibes

Available: organ control panel. Not sure which model it’s from, but DM if you’d like to see the front too!

Available: analog alarm clock mechanism

Available: variable capacitor. Turn it and watch the capacitance change!

Available: Jensen alnico speakers. Speakers do not get more stylish than this!! Perfect for low-wattage applications.

Available: bookshelf speakers. We love a good particleboard speaker!!

Available: vintage headphones. These also came from a Wurlitzer student model electronic piano!

Available: Drake MS7 speaker. This is for ham radio but it has a really fun little oval speaker inside so you could experiment with your audio projects!

11/06/2026

Years ago, we drove through the night to pick up this Wurlitzer after spotting it on eBay. This is an alternate take of Riders on the Storm inspired by the rain today. If you’re looking for one of your own, we offer a sourcing service to help you find and restore a Wurlitzer electronic piano.

11/06/2026

Available in the surplus sale! The amp cabinet currently has a 12” vintage speaker in it (which sounds awesome), but can be loaded with any speaker you prefer. (Marked down to $195!). The Realistic mini keyboard has sold. Comment and we’ll send you a link.

11/05/2026

Kicking off a workshop sale including cool stuff and gear we’ve been collecting. There’s gear, vintage components, cool vintage functional object, NOS parts. Watch out for link when it goes live, or DM us if you’d like to be specifically notified when it does later today. Don’t miss out!

11/05/2026

Picked up a Sears Silvertone organ with a (likely Dan Electro) tube amp in it, that has tremolo. The tone generating is reed, so there’s a fan, that, if you mike it from the right direction is totally rejected by the mike (as heard here!).

As you can see, the reed organ is tiny! It weighs about 50lbs, less than a lot of combo amps. It was orderable from Sears catalogs, and the woman we bought it from said they ordered it themselves, and it came in the mail. If someone buys this, we’re going to try to recreate that same exact experience for you, how fun would that be??

11/03/2026

We love rebuilding Wurlitzer 120 amps! It’s one of the coolest amps. Since the chassis is too small for mods, we focus on really dialing in the tone so that the amp really performs its best.

11/03/2026

Realized that we recorded this song on two different Casiotone keyboards. The Casiotone 301 was released in 1980, while the Casiotone 7000 was released in 1983. The aesthetic difference really makes it seem like they are decades apart instead of just three years!

Which one do you like better?

11/02/2026

The Korg Triton Extreme is a vintage workstation that has a tube (optionally) in its signal path, so we decided to see what would happen if we added a few more. We’re running it through our M3 tube preamplifier and Vesper amplifier. We think it really sounds great on the tine e piano preset.

The Korg is currently available, and the M3 and Vesper are original Tropical Fish designs.

Address

250 East Sandford Boulevard
Mount Vernon, NY
10550

Website

http://www.tropicalfishvintage.com/

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