They still make brand new vacuum tubes, but the better tubes to seek out are the original brands like Sylvania, Telefunken, GE, Mullard, etc. These pre-68' organs used common every day parts that you can buy at any electronics supplier, this includes ANY vacuum tube. These would be the pre-1968 models from nearly every brand. The question you have to ask is, do I want a toy with lots of automated features ( okay toy is a bit harsh), or do you want an organ that was made when the tone of the organs VOICES were the main priority in manufacturing. Rule of thumb, avoid 70's garbage, but this doesn't necessarily mean all 70's organs were junk. It had sustain which has me very baffled because it was a very very early 60's model that had sustain. I recall a Lowrey LS_ ( that I had which just needed new ceramic resistors and it brought it right back to life.
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