On 9/3/2011 7:37 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > On 4 Sep 2011 at 0:08, Steve Parker wrote: > >> I would say that the Leslie is still a defining aspect of the classic >> Hammond sound. Apart from a period when Jon Lord stopped using a >> leslie, I can't think of any major Hammond artist for whom it wasn't a >> defining part of their sound. > > Have you ever played one without it? > > Perhaps we differ on what the essential sound of the Hammond organ > is... >
That's most likely what's happening here -- Steve is right that jazz, blues and rock artists who have recorded with the Hammond B3 made extensive use of the leslie speaker, so that it has come to be considered by many to be an inherent part of the Hammond sound. That Hammond himself hated it and that the organ can be played very well without use of the leslie speaker makes no difference to the fact that for many the defining sound of the Hammond organ is what we've all heard on records. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
