Furthermore it was used by nearly all legendary rock bands, including Deep Purple, and left its eternal fingerprint in numerous famous songs.The B4000+ packs the legendary Hammond B3 organ into an ultra compact box. Jones in R&B, made it even more popular, than its predecessors.
“Hammond gods” like Jimmy Smith, who invented the typical Jazz-organ sound, and Booker T. The B-3 was the most popular and influential model, produced from 1954 to 1975. Unfortunately the oversized originals require a regular and costly maintenance, including tuning and costly repairs – the additional LeslieTM speaker system is another reason for the loss of remaining hairs and money.Īround two million Hammond organs have been manufactured.
Inspiring legions of followers and setting the standard for modern keyboard players, not only the highly-skilled art of playing, but the original Hammond sound is still an object of desire. While in the 1960s, almost 50.000 Hammonds lived a sacral life in churches and chapels, the trained organist Jon Lord employed the “hard rock” style on his instrument, even playing his heavy and fast keyboard riffs through a guitar amp.
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The movie song Tico Tico, played on a Hammond by the incredible Ethel Smith, became an international hit in 1944.Īs soon as gifted rock musicians, like John Lord or Keith Emerson, got their hands on a Hammond, they created the sound, which leaves a monumental mark on the classic era of live and studio music. One of the first customers was Georg Gershwin. Originally intended as smaller and much cheaper substitute for pipe organs, which can even be used in the smallest chapel or theater, the revolutionary instrument quickly found its way to Blues and Jazz players, like Count Basie. Originals are still being used around the world by live bands and in selected studios, which are lucky and can afford the necessary space and costly maintenance. Since their first appearance in the 1930s, they were not only be used by generations of church organists but in virtually every kind of music style. Hammond organs are towering over the 20th-century music like the ancient pyramids: massive, potent-sounding, an objects of worship, driven to the edge by keyboard wizards. Only the weight of the original B3 we have reduced a bit. Everything perfectly simulated and adjusted. All of course fully polyphonic, with scanner vibrato, tube amp and reverb, and – not to forget – the legendary Leslie. The B4000+ simulates all 91 Tonewheels, if desired, with crosstalk, and mechanical wear. Just as the real organ with voluminous bass belly, defined mids and indispensable “scream” in the heights: the authentic sound of a living electromechanical B3. That’s why we’ve developed the B4000+, with nine drawbars: to touch, to tweak, but most important: to play!īased on one of the best and most powerful digital signal processors on the market, the Sharc DSP by Analog Devices, the sound and warmth of the B3 has been carefully recreated down to the last detail – with all the electrical and mechanical inefficiencies that made the instrument a legend. Nobody would build a guitar without a neck, without it, it just will not work. The B4000+ packs the legendary Hammond B3 organ into an ultra compact box.