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Oct 17, 2017 · The Hammond Organ is a mysterious beast. It must’ve seemed like space-age technology when it emerged in the 1930s, and even now the instrument retains something of the Dr Who about it. For a period in the 1960s there was hardly a chart hit that didn’t feature a Hammond organ, with organists like Booker T Jones becoming household names.
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- Keyclick, Leakage & Other Unintended Bonuses
- Colouring in with Drawbars
- Foldback: Yes Or No?
- Legendary Hammond Organists
- The Best-Known Models
- Repairing A Hammond
- ‘Clone Wheels’
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Various technical idiosyncrasies and imperfections help make the sound of a Hammond organ what it is. There are entire libraries filled with books on the subject, but here, we’ll just list the most infamous ones: 1. The sound of a Hammond is generated electromagnetically via a tonewheel generator (see above). This already makes a big difference to ...
The note produced by a single tonewheel has no overtones to it but can be coloured in with the natural harmonic overtones that are produced by acoustic instruments. Using the drawbars, an organist can add or remove harmonics to colour in the sound and this process is called registering. Most Hammond organs have nine drawbars per keyboard (or manual...
In the section about different Hammond organ models, we mention the phenomenon of ‘foldback’, which console organs have, and spinet organs don’t. This is a pretty important difference when it comes to musicality, but what is foldback? Foldback is as follows: the higher the note, the finer the serrated edge of the tonewheel needs to be to describe t...
Which names have had the most influence on the organists that followed? Here, we list some of the most legendary. The explosive introduction of the Hammond organ to jazz is partly thanks to Jimmy Smith(1928-2005), who is seen as the most influential jazz organist, or in fact organist in general, of all time. He emerged in the sixties with a distinc...
Hammond built a lot of different models while they were still in business, and their output not only encompassed tonewheel organs, but ‘normal’ electronic organs. Here, we’ve made a list of the tonewheel organs you’re most likely to see played in bands, and one electronic Hammond organ that made it through. The HammondB3is the most legendary tonewh...
Hammond tonewheel organs are almost impossible to break, and if they do break, they can always be repaired. The world is teeming with Hammond organs that have been hefted on and off stages every night for more than fifty years and are still going. Part of the maintenance work involved in taking care of a Hammond you can do yourself, like treating t...
Old-school Hammond tonewheel organs are big and heavy – this much is obvious, and the B3 plus a Leslie 147 is not just a heavy combo, but an expensive one. It’s therefore little wonder that many manufacturers have come up with some lighter and cheaper solutions that try to emulate the combined sound of a Hammond and a Leslie. There are even virtual...
Want to know more about Hammond organs? You only need to glance at the internet to see that there’s enough Hammond-themed reading to be done to take up a lifetime. American author Mark Vail wrote an entire book about the phenomenon titled ‘The Hammond Organ – Beauty in the B’, and whoever wants to take a deep-dive into Hammond playing techniques sh...
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 ...
- 1935–1975 (tonewheel models), 1967–1985 (transistor models), 1986–present (digital models)
- $1,193 (Model A, 1935), $2,745 (Model B-3, 1955)
- Full
- Tonewheel
The accompanying recordings include 21 exercises, plus performance demonstrations of eight songs with minus-organ versions so you can play along; Achieve special effects used by the great Hammond organists, including unique tips and tricks for all drawbar instruments; Understand all the parts of the organ and how to use them, including ...
Mar 28, 2012 · In 1935, the Hammond company could not conceive that their instrument would ever be used in jazz or blues, let alone rock. By the same token, in 1935, organs had never been used in jazz or blues. Soon the Hammond organ was being used for newly emerging forms of music. Its sustained sound added a new dimension to jazz and blues.
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