From mate_stubb@yahoo.com Sun Feb 01 09:08:25 2004
Subject:Re: Multiple key contacts, playing technique

The "touch sensitivity" of a Hammond is very subtle and almost
impossible to control in normal playing. The distance that the key
travels between the first contact and the last contact closing is
something like 1/16 of an inch. You have to press the key down very
slowly to hear the effect clearly.

Surprisingly, I find that the most obvious way to hear it is when you
are doing percussive conga slap type techniques, where the key
doesn't always get pressed all the way down.

Moe

> So as you press down, the first contact sounds a tone, then the
next,
> perhaps, a tone in the harmonic series, etc. It seems to imply that
> the whole stack is going to be louder than just sounding the 1st
> contact. If so, then, "touch sensitivity"? --I'm talking about a
> subtle effect here. I've heard others talk
> about subtle things about the multiple contacts on real-thing-vs-
> clone discussions, and I'm just trying to clarify if this is one of
> those things.
> Tim