[HAM] Xk flee

[Richard Horton]

I was a kid learning to play organ in the late 50s, and made my spending $
in high school playing at 3 churches on sundays. My folks (of only moderate
means) bought a Baldwin spinet for me (there were no Hammond dealers within
100 miles). I played a B3 at one church, and really did not prefer it to the
Conns or bigger Baldwins of the time for church and classical music, because
it sounded less like a real pipe organ to me (there were 3 decent pipe
organs in my town of 3000). I guess what Im trying to say is what we now
worship as the "Hammond sound" didnt really seem to sink in to a larger
market till the pop music of the 60s came on, and by then Hammond was on the
run from transistors in the larger marketplace. So I doubt if the issue of
trying to emulate the B3 foldback and lower octaves in the spinet were
uppermost in their minds, or those of the average home or low-end commercial
buyers.

Although, I never could understand why they couldnt put that upper C on the
spinet pedals, there was some very annoying about that......



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Bishop" <xxcaptinxx at comcast.net>
To: "The Hammond Forum" <hammond at zeni.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [HAM] Xk flee


> I seem to recall reading that the spinets were flyin' out the door.  I'm
not
> sure what percentage of the net they were contributing, but it was quite
> significant.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave Bishop