Jimmy Smith, Joey DiFrancesco et al - do (did) they use the Leslie?  Heard them 
and others for years (often playing joyous music) but never took notice of what 
they used to produce their sound. 

Chuck


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On Sep 4, 2011, at 1:08 AM, Steve Parker <[email protected]> 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.
> 
> Steve P.
> 
> On 3 Sep 2011, at 21:59, David W. Fenton wrote:
> 
>> On 3 Sep 2011 at 14:14, John Howell wrote:
>> 
>>> Just as the rotating Leslie 
>>> speakers and their vibrato are a defining aspect 
>>> of the classic Hammond Organ sound.
>> 
>> Actually, that's not true. The classic Hammond organ sound predates 
>> the invention of the Leslie speader, and Leslie speakers are used 
>> with any number of instruments, not just Hammonds.
>> 
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