From doug@cc.ysu.edu Tue Aug 21 11:04:42 2001
Subject:Nord - last drawbar & percussion ?

For what it's worth (I own an L-100 and E-100, and maintain an M-100
and an A-100):

The 9th drawbar was used for percussion on the B-3/C-3/RT-3, A-100,
D-100, and M-3, once the -3 series came out with percussion in 1954. A
common mod is to use the 8th drawbar rather than the 9th, and the
Hammond FAQ describes how to change it (this was probably because you
couldn't do 888000008 etc + percussion the same time).

The M-100 and L-100 spinets (1960 and later) used the 8th drawbar
rather than the ninth.

The E-100 (1965 or so and later) had a dedicated busbar for percussion,
rather than robbing one of the drawbar busses. They also had "pre-
voiced" percussion, which was very unlike a B-3 (although B-3 type
percussion is possible, Mike Fulk wrote how to do it - and you wouldn't
lose any drawbar harmonics unless you chose to implement it). This was
probably true of the H-100, R-100, and maybe T-100 too.

Now, for relevance to clones:

If I was a total purist, I wouldn't think about a clone. That aside, if
I was an almost total purist, I would expect B-3 clones to simulate
robbing the 9th drawbar. The XB-3A does. I didn't pay attention on the
VK-7 and CX-3 but I assume they do too.

To say that a clone is unrealistic because it doesn't implement this
may not be entirely true, because there are B-3's out there that a
different drawbar was used.

And if a clone was otherwise pretty good other than this, would it
bother me ? It depends what it's compared to, I guess...

Doug, speculating today...
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