About a year ago, Hagan took on the project to build a "theater-style organ cabinet, maintaining a degree of portability by one person, and also able to play other sounds." The fruits of his labor is proudly displayed in this picture.

The heart of the system is two identical OB3 Squared keyboards routed to identical OB3 Drawbar Modules. The lowest keyboard is an 88-key controller (painted "Oberheim white") which drives an Oberheim Matrix 1000, mounted in the 15-space rack. The rack also houses a 12-channel mixer and MIDI router.

Power is supplied by a pair of keyboard amp/Leslie-style rotating speaker combinations (set up in stereo). According to Hagan, this is how all this stuff works...

"Sounds from the middle and upper manuals are routed to separate volume pedals and mixer channels within the organ cabinet, allowing different volume & EQ settings for the middle and upper manuals," Hagan said, noting that the high-frequency organ sounds are routed to the Leslie style speakers, with the low frequency sounds routed to the keyboard amp (until the special low frequency organ drivers he ordered arrive). All keyboard sounds are routed to the keyboard amps.

The plus side of this rig is that all unsightly cables are neatly encased in three "wiring tubes." The down side is that it weighs about 400lbs and takes approximately 8 hours to completely disassemble and reassemble... not exactly gig worthy.

Hagan says his future plans are to build a small project studio. Judging from his work with this project, he can rest assured that if his music career doesn't pan out, he could capitalize on his amazing talent for carpentry.