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