From rafael2pop@yahoo.com.ar Thu Nov 26 15:19:56 2009
Subject:First clones?

Hi,

Copied from Goff's message (fully copied at the bottom),


Getting a leslie to be loud was
a major goal and the parts and knowledge was not like we have today..


Yeah, parts in the early 70's were totally different if compared to nowadays.

Remember that wanted to imitate the chorale speed so did it with a friend that help me to vary the standard speed of tremolo (fast) to slow (chorale) using a 'franken-rheostat' controlled remotely from a on/off switch added to the Farfisa Fast 5 front panel.

By the 70's being too young, safety wasn't an issue if compared with today standards.

Was in Internet times when fully realized the risk of having a 220V internal wiring and an isolated switch at finger level always being a factor of danger , same as it happened with Leslie combo preamp (footswitch)

No EC, UL, or RoHS compliant modding by those days where sure, loudness was a major issue for 'organists'.

As soon I heard by firs time , the guts of a leslie model 147 put in in 100W amp cab (or probably more) I literally told myself 'want that'.

Was a ramp speed growling back and forth as recorded by ProcolHarum (1967) but no heard in person until 1971.

Was a dual speed touring leslie (Rome-Buenos Aires) with upper horns and low rotor matched with an actual chopped Hammond B3.

That 'power Leslie' guess that was a model 147 certainly labeled by Amplificazioni Lombardi (Italy)

Picture of Brian Auger featuring that brand:

http://www.amplificazionilombardi.it/imgz/auger.jpg

Seems that for those times Italian instrument makers soon detected the trend of combine chopped actual Hammonds with solid state amps.

Best,

Rafael

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    Re: First clones?/Kustom chopper
    Posted by: "goffmac747@aol.com" goffmac747@aol.com   goff747
    Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:48 am (PST)

    The combination of the keyboard, amp and JBL's sounded interesting to
    me. Yeah the Kustom was take no prisoners solid state but then so was
    the keyboard.. add to it the JBL's and look out..coming from the reedy,
    grizzly, springy tones of the Doors, The Mysterians' 96 Tears and then
    Steve Naive of The Attractions, although none of the above featured a
    leslie, Jim's (jemccarty) combo must've been blackhawk down, rotors
    slicing and dicing on a gig...IMO..

    ..have to remember, back in those days, getting a leslie to be loud was
    a major goal and the parts and knowledge was not like we have today..

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