From aredant@pclink.com Fri Jun 16 16:48:51 2000
Subject:the business

Hi Gang,

I have the Hammond bug and it won't go away. My Voce is broken and I
have no foreseeable hope of ever getting it working again, so I am
looking now for a REAL Hammond organ. I am hoping I can find a broken
B3 with a leslie at a garage sale for $50 and enjoy refurbishing it.
It looks like there is a HIGH demand for these guys and the Hammond
sound. I don't know that I will get so lucky, but it seems that every
cover and jazz band needs a good Hammond unit. Course I am very picky
about keyboard patches and I have not seen too many keyboardists that
customize their gear. If they only knew what a difference it makes! I
think that the market for Hammond Sims has good potential. Real
Hammonds are too expensive, heavy, and hard to find. Stock keyboard
patches fall short for the playing style. I bought my Micro BII
because it sounded much better than any patch and was affordable.
However, if I had not personally gone to the NAMM show a couple of
times I would never have known about Voce. Do we detect a marketing
issue here? I am impressed with the engineering effort behind Voce
products because they are excellent examples of electronic music
product design (I just love knobs). Sometimes the best mouse trap
never gets to catch many mice.

Bruce Honnigford