From ynottnaro@yahoo.com Tue Jan 21 10:48:14 2003
Subject:Hammond

lol....you think? All you gospel players, speak up.
Seems the gospel players on this list tend to bring
their gear to use and then the church talks them into
leaving it (I don't know anyone who would rather bring
and play a clone than a REAL Hammond that's
installed.)
Most of the churches I know of can't afford to spend
$20k on an organ. My organ gets rented out a lot to a
few gospel churches here and believe me, they wouldn't
be renting if they could afford to buy. And hey, even
if that were the case, 900 "interested" buyers is
NOTHING to sneeze at. The fact is that HS is a
company who is firmly entrenched in their ways (ever
see a more service-disoriented business in your life?)
and they are not interested in catering to anyone's
wishes. All I can figure is they are a privately held
organization because shareholders wouldn't stand for
it. But then again....somebody must be buying them,
right? They couldn't stay in business if they're in
the red for long....could they? I for the life of me
though can't figure out who their customer base is.
Even with the XK demographic, they dont listen to us
at all. They are rigid, inflexible...oh yeah, did I
mention their factory/headquarters here in Addison is
less 5000 sq ft? Not a big company at all, so I'm
thinking their overhead is so low, that they can make
more money on fewer items.

I don't know...I just can't figure it out. You'd
think they'd notice that musicians who want a portable
Hammond have to go somewhere else to get a more
realistic Hammond sound.

t

--- "jmer62@yahoo.com" wrote:
> from what i heard, there are at least 200,000 gospel
> churches out there that could be interested in
> buying
> the HS B3, Key 5 etc. i think that is the only
> motivating factor. how many members do we have in
> this
> group, 900 or so?
>
> joe
>
> --- Chuck Hasley wrote:
> > This issue has been hammered to death on the>
> since
> I joined a few
> > years ago.
> > It would seem to me that HS would stand to make a
> > pile of dough if
> > they were smart enough to put the "right" sound
> chip
> > in the XK2.
> > It is my opinion that they would sell a lot more
> > 2,000.00 boards than
> > they would 20,000.00 organs.
> > I'm not going to hold my breath for those guys to
> > wake up OR to see
> > how many folks buy a 20,000.00 organ. I've played
> > the XB and XK
> > models and that simple issue of phasing kept me
> from
> > buying one. I
> > opted for the VK7 instead. Maybe a little less
> > authentic but no
> > phasing issues when played through a Leslie.
> > If you want to spend that kind of money you can
> get
> > a nice B3 in
> > Dallas for around 8K and a Leslie.
> > 20K? NAH!
> > Even the black gospel groups won't pay 20K for
> one.
> > Chuck
> >
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