far too often for home use, leading to leaks on living room carpets. He eventually modified the owner's manual to call for oiling only once a year. Before this, Hammond had to fight for legal ...

The Hammond electronic organ was developed with churches in mind, as a lower-cost alternative to pipe organs. But in Philadelphia, a keyboard player named Jimmy Smith was inspired by early jazz ...

We're deeply saddened to announce that Hammond B3 organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith passed ... After a brief stint in the Air Force, Smith returned home to Buffalo in the early 1960s, at which point ...

Kocour also plays the Hammond B3 organ. "When I first started playing ... the studio that sits behind Clarke Rigsby's Tempe home. "We had a great relationship and went back 25, 30 years ...

But his biggest breakthrough came in 1934, when he patented the organ that bears his name. Thanks to a device known as the tonewheel generator, the Hammond organ produced sounds to rival those of ...

The Hammond organ is one of a handful of keyboard instruments that never ... that I felt good enough about the sound to leave my Leslie at home. With the XK-1C, I can now leave the Ventilator at home.

We all know the sounds of the mighty Hammond organ when we hear them, from the ghostly sorrow and majesty of Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale to the bubbling glide and splash of Booker T and the MG ...

Keyboard player Jon Lord performing with British rock group Deep Purple, circa 1975 - Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images ...

A GENEROUS but anonymous donor has just l\. presented a Hammond organ to the University of Melbourne; and as I am interested in music, especially orchestral music, I am glad to testify to the ...