Funny you mentioned that DGA. You are are correct a Hammond organ is the original synth designed to emulate a pipe organ. Laurens Hammond got his start in the 30's by setting up his first organ in some big facility that had a real pipe organ built in. His organ had a whole bunch of big tone cabinets to match the volume. Then he closed the stage curtain and had an audience of audio pros and organists try to tell the difference as a player went back and forth. Most could not and that's how Hammond started.

Later Don Leslie developed the rotating speaker and Laurens absolutely hated it to the point he forbade his dealers to carry them.

In the modern world nobody cares about the pipe organ sound from a B3, it's all about rock, blues, jazz and of course a Leslie.

Every keyboard I've had for the last 15 years had to have the best clonewheel emulation available at the time. Now I have a Hammond SK1.

Bob

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