From whroberts@iquest.net Tue Jul 06 05:49:31 2004
Subject:Re: The original vs. state of the art

Quoting mate_stubb :

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> It's an accident that Mr. Hammond was born in a time that he had to
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> use electro mechanical means of producing the tone, resulting in a
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> contraption that still works 50 years after the fact. Consider if the
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> original Hammond had been built with 1950's transistor technology. Not
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> a single one would be working today.
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Transistor technology emerged in the 1960's, not the '50's. And there are
plenty of transistor instruments still working today.