“Hearing” the Hammond Organ

Re:“Hearing” the Hammond Organ by dpeck on Saturday February 23, 2019 @10:10PM (#19236875)

You have to watch Booker T Jones Tiny Office Concert, https://www.npr.org/2011/05/02/135840639/booker-t-jones-tiny..., if you want to see what a real master of the Hammond can do.

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Re:“Hearing” the Hammond Organ by innocentoldguy on Sunday February 24, 2019 @01:59AM (#19237493)

Keith Emerson made a pretty good name for himself playing and stabbing knives into his Hammond organ as well.

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Re:“Hearing” the Hammond Organ by leoc on Sunday February 24, 2019 @01:56PM (#19239958)

Steve Winwood (under direction from Hendrix) on "Voodoo Chile": https://open.spotify.com/track/0auKlivXpm76wR63mMJ3pR?si=D0g...

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Re:“Hearing” the Hammond Organ by KozmoNau7 on Sunday February 24, 2019 @06:19AM (#19238144)

Specifically he used the knives to hold down keys for sustained tones. At least one of his knives was a Hitlerjugend knife, given to him by Lemmy Kilmister.

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Re:“Hearing” the Hammond Organ by jeffwass on Sunday February 24, 2019 @08:41AM (#19238512)

A common trick with jazz organists back in the day was to slip a matchbook between the top of depressed keys and bottom of underpasses keys as a sustain, usually done on a high octave of the key as a drone.

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