From tonysounds@yahoo.com Thu Jan 15 04:32:18 2004
Subject:Re: Hardware rulez, was Re: Quick Electro Question

Fault prone???? Hmmm. To be honest, I guess the Hammond is victim to a few more possibilities than a computer because of the amount of mechanical action going on. But unlike a computer, you can feed a Hammond spotty AC and it will still fire up and run, and remain in tune (even a bad wiring job can't send less than 60cycles via AC, only an unwatched generator can). And unlike a computer, even those mechanical problems have a way of sorting themselves out once the beast gets warmed up. (as an example, after I got back from overseas, we had a TV appearance promoting our CD release, and I got to bring my Hammond out...imagine my dismay when the preset keys would not stay engaged on my upper manual, regardless of my exhortations and please for divine intervention...luckily, the lower manual still worked, and there were always matches; while I called my tech to let him know I would be coming in, he told me to quit worrying, and that he suspected my organ had been lying dormant and
packed for a while -which it had- and that the presets would start to work correctly once the entire organ had warmed up -which it did. Every problem I've ever had with my real Hammonds has been inconsequential and surmountable given other onboard alternatives or time...(like your car's squeaky fanbelt). The Hammond organ is a well designed, well built, beast with behemeth tone....and prodigious girth and weight. While the portability factor will never be a winning point with the Hammond, its tone and capabilities and sheer ruthlessness and indestructability will be. After 30/40 years, any of these organs that were decently maintained are STILL out there making beautiful sounds. How many of you have synths that old you can say that about????? I dont.

T

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