If you know organs, the sound of the Hammond is instantly recognizable. (SOUNDBITE OF ORGAN MUSIC) MARTIN: In the 80 years since the Hammond organ hit the assembly line, it has made its way into rock, ...

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The Hammond organ – it's heavy, it's hard to move, you basically become a lifelong van owner if you play one, and I've often said, "If your back doesn't hurt – it doesn't sound right." But I have to ...

In these days of synthesizers and music samplers that can replicate the sounds of anything from a tuba to a tympani, larger, heavier instruments (like tubas and tympanis) sometimes get replaced in ...

The venerable Hammond B-3 organ has been grinding its way through jazz, as well as gospel, rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll, since 1954. This book, a mix of biography, history and technology, tells ...

This year's Savannah Jazz Festival will present a documentary about a little organ with a mighty sound. "Killer B3: A Documentary About The Hammond Organ," directed and written by Murv Seymour, will ...

This goes back to Bach: if you want to change the sound an organ makes, you have to pull on some drawbars. This design didn’t change for 300 years, and in the 20th century with the advent of ...

Nineteen ninety-four marks forty years for Jimmy Smith on the Hammond organ. Although he made the switch from the piano in 1953, Jimmy did not really find his voice on the organ until the following ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. The sound of the Hammond organ was invented ...

The sound of the Hammond organ was invented for churches as an alternative to pipe organs. But it's distinctive sound became crucial to the... How The Hammond Organ Sound Laid The Tracks For Gospel's ...