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You can buy something for a couple of hundred quid and most pop/rock keyboard parts are an afternoon's work to learn.
If you don't want to do that then just play the parts on guitar and don't worry about emulating the sound- just play the right notes.
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If it is an organ sound that you require, the Electro-Harmonix Lester G pedal might do the trick. Its combination of compression, overdrive and rotary loudspeaker emulation will hint at Hammond organ without the inconvenience of having to transport and maintain the real thing. Add the Pitch Fork pedal to the signal chain and things get more interesting.
Guitar synths can be crazy effective, just adding a string part like I'm doing here sounds so much bigger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a66FTui2jUw
I would say though that if you have 2 guitars in the band then one of you needs to learn keys. Most of the parts that need playing are pretty basic mainly right hand parts so it's not that you need to learn how to be a concert pianist.
That sounds like it might be fairly difficult, quite possibly more so than learning to play basic keyboard parts on an actual keyboard.
I agree about changing technique to suit though; covering organ tones with a POG is fine up to a point, but it doesn’t sound convincing it you’re just using a plectrum, chordal notes need to be hit at the same time so it needs to be carefully finger picked really.
I did try a solo using a stylophone at one point but every time the stylus touched the keyboard there would be huge electrical ‘CRACK!’ through the p.a. Not great, which was a shame as it would have suited the song really well.
I've found that when I occasionally pick it up (not exactly an instrument I practice daily lol) it helps to use electrical contact cleaner on it but not sure if it would stop the crack you talk about when put through a PA.