From sevush@rcn.com Fri Aug 23 08:10:29 2002
Subject:RE: Leslie Vs Motion Sound

I've been thinking about how to do a smaller, lighter 145 so it can be moved
easily.

My own experience in building instruments (guitar, bass, harpsichord, banjo)
is there is some resonance/filtering the wood contributes, but the stability
could be had at a much lower weight.

I'm sure John Fisher could speak with more experience here.

> Is the weight of a Leslie's wooden shell high enough of a
> percentage of the
> total weight to entice engineers to consider leaving the Leslie's
> traditional size and shape as-is and concentrate instead on a lightweight
> shell material? ...Or, is the wood material itself as essential to "the
> sound" as the other, previously discussed factors?