[HAM] Joey D

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At 01:06 PM 1/26/2007, Keith Cary wrote:
>Yeah, thanks, it was Just Squeeze Me. He said it was on a recording
>that was out of print until recently. -- I was doing my best to
>watch, and I don't think he had any free limbs to do any natural B3
>wah effects, though it's hard to say with him. I thought I saw him
>turn a switch to his left, under the organ. I was wondering if he
>might have had some automatic sweepable filter in line.

NAH!!! Joey plays stock stuff, but I suppose he could have been playing a 
"New B-3." More below--

>Speaking of pitch
>control, at the end of one song he flipped a switch and the last note
>slid UP a half step. Definitely a glissando. A lot like when you turn
>the organ off for a split second and the pitch slides down. So, the
>only thing I figure that could do that would be if the B3 was running
>on an AC source that was controllable regarding hertz, making a
>tunable B3. Would that work?

It's done all the time by turning ON the start switch. This raises the 
pitch briefly, then cause the generator to "hunt" for a few seconds. 
Usually, this effect is accompanied by a loud hum however. Groove Holmes 
used to do that a lot. It's much safer than turning off/on the run switch 
because the organ won't die on you.