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1. #HAMMOND ORGAN IDENTIFICATION MANUALS#
2. #HAMMOND ORGAN IDENTIFICATION MANUAL#
3. #HAMMOND ORGAN IDENTIFICATION PORTABLE#
4. #HAMMOND ORGAN IDENTIFICATION SOFTWARE#
5. #HAMMOND ORGAN IDENTIFICATION PROFESSIONAL#

This design was discontinued with the introduction of the transistor organ.

#HAMMOND ORGAN IDENTIFICATION MANUALS#

Hammond organ manuals and pedalboards were originally manufactured with solid palladium alloy wire to insure a high-quality electrical connection when pressing a key. Spinet models have 12- or 13-note miniature pedalboards. The RT-2, RT-3 and D-100 also contained a separate solo pedal system that had its own volume control and various other features. The Hammond Concert models E, RT, RT-2, RT-3 and D-100 had 32-note American Guild of Organists (AGO) pedalboards going up to the G above middle C as the top note.

Hammond used a 25-note pedalboard because he found that on traditional 32-note pedalboards used in church pipe organs, the top seven notes were seldom used. Most console Hammond pedalboards have 25 notes, with the bottom note a low C and the top note a middle C two octaves higher. Hammond console organs come with a wooden pedalboard played with the feet, for bass notes. Modern Hammond-Suzuki models use waterfall keys. The M series of spinets also had waterfall keys (which has subsequently made them ideal for spares on B-3s and C-3s ), but later spinet models had "diving board" style keys which resembled those found on a church organ. Early Hammond console models had sharp edges, but starting with the B-2, these were rounded, as they were cheaper to manufacture. In contrast to piano and pipe organ keys, Hammond keys have a flat-front profile, commonly referred to as "waterfall" style.

#HAMMOND ORGAN IDENTIFICATION MANUAL#

The keys on each manual have a lightweight action, which allows players to perform rapid passages more easily than on a piano. No difference in volume occurs regardless of how heavily or lightly the key is pressed (unlike with a piano), so overall volume is controlled by a pedal (also known as a "swell" or "expression" pedal). Each is laid out in a similar manner to a piano keyboard, except that pressing a key on a Hammond results in the sound continuously playing until it is released, whereas with a piano, the note's volume decays. As with pipe organ keyboards, the two manuals are positioned on two levels close to each other. Most Hammond organs have two 61-note (five- octave) keyboards called manuals. Unlike an American Guild of Organists pedalboard, a console Hammond normally has 25 pedals.

#HAMMOND ORGAN IDENTIFICATION SOFTWARE#

The sound of a tonewheel Hammond can be emulated using modern software such as Native Instruments B4.

#HAMMOND ORGAN IDENTIFICATION PORTABLE#

Companies such as Korg, Roland, and Clavia have achieved success in providing more lightweight and portable emulations of the original tonewheel organs.

#HAMMOND ORGAN IDENTIFICATION PROFESSIONAL#

Hammond-Suzuki continues to manufacture a variety of organs for both professional players and churches. This culminated in the production of the "New B-3" in 2002, a recreation of the original B-3 organ using digital technology. The Hammond name was purchased by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation, which proceeded to manufacture digital simulations of the most popular tonewheel organs. These organs were less popular, and the company went out of business in 1985. In the 1970s, the Hammond Organ Company abandoned tonewheels and switched to integrated circuits. Jimmy Smith's use of the Hammond B-3, with its additional harmonic percussion feature, inspired a generation of organ players, and its use became more widespread in the 1960s and 1970s in rhythm and blues, rock, reggae, and progressive rock. Jazz club owners found that organ trios were cheaper than hiring a big band.

It quickly became popular with professional jazz musicians in organ trios, small groups centered on the Hammond organ. The organ was originally marketed by the Hammond Organ Company to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, or instead of a piano. The organ is commonly used with the Leslie speaker.Īround two million Hammond organs have been manufactured. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated sound by creating an electric current from rotating a metal tonewheel near an electromagnetic pickup, and then strengthening the signal with an amplifier to drive a speaker cabinet. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M.