[HAM] Original Factory Curves: was Re: Wax caps measured and then placed in four pans...

[David Anderson]

I tend to agree. I mean, in a era when one can download information on 
how to make a nuclear bomb from the internet, it does seem dubious to 
me that we need to be protected from this information for our own good, 
which is the argument made by those who still have the data.

The argument in its fully fleshed-out form is that if we had access to 
this data, we would all permanently ruin every single remaining Hammond 
  Organ in existence as we rushed en-masse to recalibrate them precisely 
to factory standards, merrily jamming pickup magnets into tonewheels as 
we swung at them with sledge hammers.

My own opinion is that this position is deeply paternalistic, but then 
again, I come from an academic background where we practice open 
dissemination of information.

And, in my experience, far more organs are being destroyed by people 
hacking them up for parts and selling them on eBay than would ever be 
damaged by people with calibration curves. I'd like to have the curves 
simply as a reference.

But of course, this is probably wasted typing. Every request for the 
data seems to renew the resolve of those who have it to bury it even 
deeper in their backyards, or wherever it's kept. Maybe it's guarded by 
fire-breathing dragons and a pack of rottweilers......

David Anderson

On Thursday, November 23, 2006, at 01:56  PM, Kon Zissis wrote:

> It is unfortunate that the correct factory  TG output levels data and
> the proper measuring and test procedure has not been publicly revealed.
> I think that all this data should be freely publicly available 
> otherwise
> it will become lost after those that have it have died. I assume that
> those who do have this data  would now be at least in their fifties  
> and
> 60's and beyond. The Hammond production ended in the mid 1970's so
> therefore there is no longer any reason  for this knowledge to be
> considered as a proprietary trade secret.
> All the best.
> Kon