Nod to The Legend · The instruments · 1935
Laurens Hammond
Inventor of the Hammond organ
Hammond's organ made tones with spinning tonewheels and let players mix them with drawbars. It was sold as a cheaper pipe organ for churches, then took over gospel, jazz and soul, especially the B-3.
Still heard: Organ plugins model the tonewheels, the drawbars and the key click.
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