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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.
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At the time, there was an effort underway by inventors to electronically replicate the sounds of a pipe organ, but no one had succeeded. Hammond’s associate George Stephens was aware of how one of the very first electric musical instruments created its tones.
Laurens Hammond (January 11, 1895 – July 1, 1973) was an American engineer and inventor. His inventions include the Hammond organ, the Hammond clock, and the world's first polyphonic musical synthesizer, the Novachord.
Jan 11, 2024 · By 1934, with John M. Hanert, he’d come up with the design for what became the Hammond organ. This was a machine with 91 small tonewheel generators, rotated by that synchronous motor of his.
Laurens Hammond (born Jan. 11, 1895, Evanston, Ill., U.S.—died July 1, 1973, Cornwall, Conn.) was an American businessman and inventor of the electronic keyboard instrument known as the Hammond organ. Hammond’s early education took place in Europe, where the family had moved in 1898.
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Walter Damrosch has called the Hammond an organ ‘ in all its finest and most intimate details.’ Its function is to produce organ music.
Laurens Hammond, the inventor of the Hammond Organ and the founder of the company which bears his name, was born on January 11, 1895, in Evanston, Illinois.
