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THE HAMMOND STORY. LAURENS HAMMOND. It’s been over 80 years since the world saw the first Hammond Organ, and it all started with a genius named Laurens Hammond. Laurens Hammond was born 1895, in Evanston Illinois. His mother was a unique woman, and sort of an inventor herself. His father was a banker, whose job afforded the Hammonds an ...
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert [6] and first manufactured in 1935. [7] Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an electromagnetic ...
Oct 9, 2019 · Ashon Crawley, Ph.D.‘13, grew up in the Black Pentecostal church playing the Hammond organ by ear. He thought it was a sound that belonged to the black church. In fact, the sound of the organ can be traced from pre-slave trade Islam to southern delta gospel and blues. His late afternoon talk, “Migration Stories and the Hammond Sound ...
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Hammond Organ Company records, 1928-1985. Descriptive Inventory for the Collection at Chicago History Museum, Research Center. By Harvey Olsen, 1998; rev. by Julie Wroblewski, 2017. Please address questions to: Chicago History Museum, Research Center. 1601 North Clark Street. Chicago, IL 60614-6038.
The Hammond Organ story began in a loft over an Evanston grocery store, for it was there, even before an electric organ was contemplated, that the organization was born that was to become the founder and leading member of an industry. Today the Hammond name is known and respected around the world. During the past 50 years, Hammond Organs have ...
Published October 1997. In these days of synths that stay in production for just a couple of years before being discontinued, respect is due to a keyboard design that's survived more than half a century of changing musical fashion and is still going strong. Hammond‑lover Rod Spark pulls out all the stops to bring you a personal organ odyssey.
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Nov 27, 2013 · The history of the Hammond Organ goes beyond the iconic double level keyboard…. Hammond patented over 100 product ideas, including… (in 1922) 3D movies and a few years later he was first to market the electric clock! Ironically, the syncronistic motor in the clock contributed to his insights in the development of the Hammond Organ (in the ...
