[HAM] Chopping Hammonds

[John Freund]

When I opened for Buddy Miles, his 6-5 organ player used 4 pieces of 2"
diameter pvc pipe as leg extensions on his B3. 

John Freund
organguy at biggerthanabreadbox.com 
> 
> I used to do the same thing. I'm 6'2" and it's hard to stand and play a
> B3 for any length of time unless it's raised up. Sometimes I would just
> leave the wheels down on the ROK's. Of course I wasn't using pedals.
> Back then it was Rock and Roll all the way.
> 
>   Ricky
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hammond-bounces at zeni.net [mailto:hammond-bounces at zeni.net] On
> Behalf Of Scott Hawthorn
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:05 PM
> To: The Hammond Forum
> Subject: Re: [HAM] Chopping Hammonds
> 
> At 09:52 AM 5/2/2007, Steve Leigh wrote:
> > >BTW, I made my stand for the A100 2" taller than stock to mimic the
> > >position of ROKs with "wheels down".
> >
> >That's interesting.
> 
> Even less interesting is what Dan Bonow does-- he plays the BC standing
> up,
> so the organ's legs sit on 4X4s with depressions in them to hold the
> legs.
> I think he's ~6' tall. He sez it hurts his back to bend over to play.
> 
> 
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