From lindaleed@earthlink.net Sun Jan 19 06:22:20 2003
Subject:Re: Disgruntled cloners....lol

Well at the time I was just out of college and wanted the Korg but could not
afford it! The T1 was ok, very "solid state" sounding and could easily cross
over into the Farfisa/Vox type of sound if I wasn't careful with the
registrations!

The Rotovibe is ok, but it colored the sound a little with a chorus sound I
was not really fond of from a "purist" standpoint as I had a Hammond at my
parents home and knew the difference.

Later, the Hammond came with me when we found a house big enough to
accommodate it. I used the Rotovibe mostly with organ patches I had
painstakingly written for a Kawai K-3 when I finally retired the T1. Now for
certain gigs, I use either an EMU Vintage Keys Plus or a couple of good
patches from a Yamaha CS2X for cover bands when I just need a Hammond sound
for a few tunes. Would like to find a Leslie 860 and buy that new Roland
drawbar module based on the VK-8 technology. However, someone I know who is
close to Hammond says that another slab with the technology of the new B3
will be available in the future. How soon, I do not know.

I have had a B2/147 since I was kid and found a B3/22H which Hammond tech
SaI Azzarelli rebuild a couple of years ago. I use this set-up with my jazz
quartet, "LDB3".

I came up through the "Dale Coleman" cheezy arrangement series when I
studied with a very sweet open minded little old lady who had an M3 and a
Leslie in her kitchen that she would CRANK if I had a good lesson! My
teacher was a stickler for playing things as written, but she encouraged the
fact that I liked jazz and to improvise, but made me read those Coleman
things note for note (even though they had chord symbols all over them). It
was a good discipline for me. She taught until she was 94 years old and only
quit teaching when her eyesight and hearing started to fail. She would be
102 if she was still living. She loved Liberace so she was not totally close
minded to "musical embellishment" of pieces, but would make me start over a
lesson piece if did these kinds of things before I had learned it completely
through the "right way";-). Once it was learned, she would fire up the
kitchen Leslie and listen to what I wanted to add to the pieces.

I owe my early musical education to this lady who kept me on the right path
of careful music reading, but did not discourage me in the other areas,
which I think was very open minded of a person her age and education. She
was a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music's high school program. I
do not know if such a program exists anymore...I think we are talking the
teens or early 1920's when she attended!

Now I am a jazzer...... and prog rocker when I can find enough like minded
people to have group like this.

Linda
http://www.dachtyl.com

on 1/19/03 2:07 AM, ynottnaro at ynottnaro@yahoo.com wrote:

> Man I always wanted to check that rig out!!!!!! That
> was the Steve Walsh (Kansas) organ rig, but I could
> never find that T1 anywhere. How did the Rotovibe
> sound (are we talking the leslie top horn box, or the
> red footpedal?)? If it's the footpedal, I'm aware of
> how that sounds (sounds more like a Univibe, only
> cleaner) but if it's the box, I'd be real curious how
> that sounded.
>
> Tony
> --- Linda Dachtyl wrote:
>> on 1/18/03 1:45 PM, ynottnaro at ynottnaro@yahoo.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Too many choices? That is NEVER a bad thing,
>> EVER.
>>> Remember the day when the ONLY kid on the block
>> was
>>> the old CX3?
>>
>> Or a Crumar T1 with a Dunlop Rotovibe;-)
>>
>> Been there, done that!
>>
>> Linda
>>
>