I had a Hammond T442 for 12 years, until last summer when my tech retired and found out there are few techs left in Northern California. Amazing sound from this smaller organ!
There are 91 Tone Wheels ibn a Hammond organ. A great 1937 Paramount News film about the Hammond Tone Wheel organ is included in the great documentary, *Legendary Theatre Organists* ( it begins at the 41 minute mark, but start at 40mins to hear the introduction. Another great one is Eddie Layton (Yankee Stadium Organist) in his younger career as a touring organist. He could play the heck out of a Hammond organ with no Leslie speaker! Case and point check this out! : *Hammond A100 demo from Norwegian TV in 1962 - Eddie Layton*
As someone else has said, that sounds like you're running a 60Hz organ off 50Hz or vice-versa, which would correspond to slightly more than 2 semitones
@@lawabidingcitizen5153 …in the early 50’s, here in Ontario Canada, the Power companies changed from 25 to 60 hz. All appliance motors were changed at no expense but I cant imagine that this Hammond organ was around back then, but maybe it was.
In terms of the old school classification of instruments of Chordophones, Aerophones, Membranophones, Idiophones.. does the Hammond fall under Idiophones?
I was told by my mom that a Hammond Organ doesnt have to be tuned unlike other organs that get out of tune.She worked in a well known music store that sold Hammond organs. I heard Hammond quit using tubes in 1974 in their organs.
The T500 was the last real tone wheel model they introduced. They're quite the find because people dismiss them as just another mid 70's model like the lower end Kimballs, Baldwins, Thomas, but theT500 are top tier sounding/playing. Brandon, moderator on the Organ Forum is nuts about his T500 and has made many modifications to it.
Hello Paul. Firstly - thank you for watching my for more than ten seconds! And yes, you are quite right of course - I am guilty of purveying false harmonics. You must be a musician or a keen Hammond enthusiast (or both) to have spotted this. As you will have guessed, I added them afterwards from a tone generator and wasn't careful enough with my frequencies. However - to be fair - it does get the idea across I hope!
All electro-mechanical and electronic, non-cathedral organs sound really "cheesy" to me. It comes from horrible memories of 1960s "home organs" when they first became popular and affordable, on which old fuddy duddies played cheesy versions of cheesy pop songs and cheesy 50s "hits". My grandfather had one ... he was also a church organist, which I loved to hear. As a child, I used to leave the room in disgust at the sound of his home organ. Electric organs are *NOT* a wind instrument. They synthesise, IMITATE the sound of an organ (and other things). I have always found "flute" mode on any organ to be a laughable abomination! I am a flautist (bansuri) btw.
I love Hammond organ !!!❤No one will ever invent a better one!!!
Согласен с вами.
The greatest sound ever invented!
true !!!
true,!!
I had a Hammond T442 for 12 years, until last summer when my tech retired and found out there are few techs left in Northern California. Amazing sound from this smaller organ!
What a great video ! Very informative and interesting!
There are 91 Tone Wheels ibn a Hammond organ. A great 1937 Paramount News film about the Hammond Tone Wheel organ is included in the great documentary, *Legendary Theatre Organists*
( it begins at the 41 minute mark, but start at 40mins to hear the introduction.
Another great one is Eddie Layton (Yankee Stadium Organist) in his younger career as a touring organist. He could play the heck out of a Hammond organ with no Leslie speaker! Case and point check this out! : *Hammond A100 demo from Norwegian TV in 1962 - Eddie Layton*
Гениальное изобретение ! Когда слышу Хаммонд , вспоминаю Лорда .
So, it seems he found from clocks that music is timeless?
😁🎶🎹🎶Play On
And then Jon Lord found one... the rest is history.
Lovely video! Thanks
I had a used M3 Spinet and the pitch was off by 2 semi tones.
How could this be ?
Tone generator motor not running the correct speed.
What country were you in?
As someone else has said, that sounds like you're running a 60Hz organ off 50Hz or vice-versa, which would correspond to slightly more than 2 semitones
@@lawabidingcitizen5153 …in the early 50’s, here in Ontario Canada, the Power companies changed from 25 to 60 hz. All appliance motors were changed at no expense but I cant imagine that this Hammond organ was around back then, but maybe it was.
É o melhor órgão de todos.
Translation
The best of all organs
Love my Hammond a 100
M3 L-111 T - 262
In terms of the old school classification of instruments of Chordophones, Aerophones, Membranophones, Idiophones.. does the Hammond fall under Idiophones?
Ha! I don't think I know! Thank you for your fun comment though!
@@CornwallStressFreeTelevision its a question that has baffled me too.. i guess synths can be électrophones.. so maybe this too..?
They're in a class of their own. As Bessie Smith might have said.
@@johnbishop5316 To be honest I don't exactly understand how the sound is produced.. is it an acoustic phenomenon or synthesized sounds..?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_organ#:~:text=The%20basic%20component%20sound%20of,similar%20to%20a%20sine%20wave.@@MreenalMams
I was told by my mom that a Hammond Organ doesnt have to be tuned unlike other organs that get out of tune.She worked in a well known music store that sold Hammond organs. I heard Hammond quit using tubes in 1974 in their organs.
Quite accurate, unlike this guy’s understanding of how tonewheels or Hammond a work.
T500. Had one of those.
The T500 was the last real tone wheel model they introduced. They're quite the find because people dismiss them as just another mid 70's model like the lower end Kimballs, Baldwins, Thomas, but theT500 are top tier sounding/playing. Brandon, moderator on the Organ Forum is nuts about his T500 and has made many modifications to it.
ハモンドオルガンは、ヤマハやKAWAIとは異なる。無限に近い音を出せる。でも、ある程度の金を出さないとね！150万以下では厳しいかも！自分がローンで買ったのは500万したけど買った当時は高級車買えたかな？今から60年程昔だった！楽器は値段が半端ないね！億何か普通にするから怖いよ。レバー１つの組み合わせやボタン操作他の組み合わせで如何様にも音が変化するのに、使いこなすまでは苦労しました。もう後期高齢になって指や足が動かなくなりました！当時は御陰で演奏で喜ばれました。映画音楽やムード音楽等で何組かのカップル👫が出来たのは良い思い出です。上前津にハモンドのショップが有りましたが、今はもう見なくなりました！
The original motor synth.
2’55”… er… don’t think so
Hello Paul. Firstly - thank you for watching my for more than ten seconds! And yes, you are quite right of course - I am guilty of purveying false harmonics. You must be a musician or a keen Hammond enthusiast (or both) to have spotted this. As you will have guessed, I added them afterwards from a tone generator and wasn't careful enough with my frequencies. However - to be fair - it does get the idea across I hope!
Скорей бредофон.
All electro-mechanical and electronic, non-cathedral organs sound really "cheesy" to me. It comes from horrible memories of 1960s "home organs" when they first became popular and affordable, on which old fuddy duddies played cheesy versions of cheesy pop songs and cheesy 50s "hits". My grandfather had one ... he was also a church organist, which I loved to hear. As a child, I used to leave the room in disgust at the sound of his home organ.
Electric organs are *NOT* a wind instrument. They synthesise, IMITATE the sound of an organ (and other things). I have always found "flute" mode on any organ to be a laughable abomination! I am a flautist (bansuri) btw.
Hammond did not have oscillators but it had tonewheels and were virtually indestructible and they never go out of tune
@@mccolleydw
Correctly edited above.
electronic organs sound amazing imo. example: Vox Continental V301J.
An awful lot of cheese in your life?😂😂😂
@@philipboug he doesn't like cheese
Robin Richmond imported the first Hammond organ into Great Britain from the United States in 1935, the rest is history.
I think it was the begining, not history?