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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 ...
It was then that I first met Graham Sutton, who had been a demonstrator for Hammond UK in the '60s and '70s. He told me all about the Hammond Organ to end all Hammond organs — the father of them all, the C3 (or B3, which is the American version — exactly the same Hammond but with four legs instead of a solid body. The C stood for Church ...
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- History of The Hammond Organ Company, Part I. Hammond Before The Organ
- II. Tone Wheels Keep on Turnin’
- III. The Pipes Strike Back
- IV: A Life of Its Own
- V. to B3, Or Not to B3
- Epilogue: An Additional Artifact
“Like most inventive geniuses,” Nation’s Business magazine reported in 1938, “Laurens Hammond is an indefatigable worker. He is extremely facile with his hands, probably a hereditary trait, for his father, a Chicago banker, was ambidextrous and could write a letter with either hand while he dictated a third.” What that same article failed to mentio...
The original patent identified the invention simply as an “electrical musical instrument,” but through subsequent refinements from Hammond and his longtime business partner and lead engineer John W. Hanert, the electric organ soon became synonymous with the company that manufactured it. Everybody was talking about “the Hammond.” “Organ music hereto...
In July of 1936, a Hammond advertisement appeared in the Diapson magazine, with the headline: “Next Sunday, 390,000 people will hear the superb music of the Hammond. “If you could drop in next Sunday at any one of 500 churches, you would understand why the Hammond Organ, within the short space of one year, has won an acceptance without parallel.” T...
By 1938, the Hammond Clock Co. had officially become the Hammond Instrument Company, a thriving enterprise bucking the odds in the final years of the Depression. True to form, Laurens Hammond and his team were thoroughly disinterested in merely enjoying the success of their first few creations. They continued to relentlessly push the envelope, turn...
In 1949, a new main factory space opened up at 4200 W. Diversey Avenue—a building that would remain the Hammond headquarters right up until the company’s final days. A few years later, in 1953, the official name of the business was changed again, this time from the Hammond Instrument Co. to the Hammond OrganCompany. Attempts at breaking into other ...
Our museum collection also includes a vintage can of Hammond Generator Oil, probably dating from the late ‘50s or early ‘60s. The 8oz can—which still has a fair amount of oil in it—was “prepared and organized” for Hammond by E.F. Houghton & Co., a Philadelphia company that’s been around since the 1860s and presently still calls itself “the largest ...
Feb 14, 2024 · Hammond Accomplishments Timeline: 1934 through 1979. 02-14-2024, 02:33 AM. This from the Aurora Classic Owners Manual, dated I guess 1979. I can't vouch for all of the claimed of "firsts", nor am I sure of this list's comprehensiveness, but nonetheless it's an interesting chronology of the company's product development steps over a 45 year period.
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 ...
Contents. Hammond Organ Company. American company. Also known as: Hammond Clock Company, Hammond Instrument Company. Learn about this topic in these articles: founding by Hammond. In Laurens Hammond. …1937, later (1953) becoming the Hammond Organ Company.
Many Modern Hammonds also feature voices beyond the familiar ones, those of Acoustic/Electric Pianos, Strings, Brass, and Synthesizer, to name a few; these to compliment the contemporary sounds of Worship. Renew your faith and confidence in the King Of Instruments. Bring a NEW Hammond and Leslie home to your Church.
