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Mar 28, 2012 · Before the Hammond organ, jazz and blues bands could not use acoustic pipe organs because virtually all pipe organs were installed in churches and orchestra concert halls, places that jazz and blues bands were not able to rehearse or play.
In this three part series of interviews with Cliff Unruh, we are going to talk about inventor Laurens Hammond and how the Hammond Organ Company came about, how the Hammond works from a simplified technical standpoint, and how the mechanical design shapes the sound characteristics that make the Hammond so iconic.
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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May 16, 2023 · The Hammond was one of the first mass-produced musical instruments which combined the electrical, mechanical and acoustic worlds—it is a keyboard instrument that could produce totally new sounds, and at the same time "imitate" other acoustic instruments.
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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 ...
Sep 1, 2023 · Cory Henry. Cory Henry is undoubtedly one of the finest keyboard players alive today. After tearing it up on the KingKORG with his former experimental jazz outfit Snarky Puppy, he’s now usually playing his heart out on the Hammond B3. A child prodigy, Henry was playing both the piano and organ by the age of two, making his debut at the Apollo ...