From tyrone_topheavy@yahoo.com Wed Mar 12 09:28:25 2008
Subject:Re: 9 contacts

So, 1 contact per drawbar then ?

Wouldn't some of the contacts trigger before others, since the contacts would require less throw at the rear of the keybed ? Or is the behaivor that people want simulated ?



Steve wrote:
It had to do with the way the Hammond generates tones (harmonics) - up
to 9 per note are mixed together at volume levels that are set by the
drawbars. Each of the tones are carried all the way through from the
Tonewheel Generator, Keyboard and Drawbar mechanisms separately, then
mixed by the mixing transformer and fed to the preamp. Thus nine
contacts per key.

--Steve

Tyrone Lumley wrote:
> This is news to me !
>
> What, exactly, was the reasoning behind 9 contacts ? I would think an Organ would be either on or off......
>




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