From mkp@mkp.net Mon May 01 03:24:54 2006
Subject:Re: Hammond players who (sometimes) didn't use a Leslie...

>>>>> "jr6670" == jr6670 writes:

jr6670> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "B3bluesman59" wrote:
>>
> Every recording I have ever heard of Jimmy Smith had a Leslie. All
>> his early Blue Note stuff was on a B-3 with a 21-H Leslie. Since
>> the 21-H was a single speed there was obviously no chorale effect.

The early Blue Note albums were recorded using Jimmy's own organ and
Leslie -- a 31H.

In late '59/early '60 Rudy Van Gelder bought a C-3 with 21H for his
studio (he still has it). And that's the rig that most jazz organ
recordings ever since have been recorded on...

jr6670> Absolutely. That classic sound is really a braked Leslie and
jr6670> C-2 or possibly C-3 vibrato.

Technically it was C-3. The reason you think that it sounds more like
C-2 is that Hammond subsequently changed one of the resistors in the
chorus switch assy. So later organs have a much richer chorus sound
than early ones.

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