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	Laurens Hammond
		This invention brought Laurens enough money to leave Gray Motor Company and rent his own space in New York, where he was to develop the synchronous electric motor that he would use later in the manufacture of his electric clocks.
		Hammond was not a musician; he did, however, see the great benefits of music, and was keen to bring a more sophisticated form of home music-making to the masses.
		Laurens Hammond left his position as president of his company in 1955, to allow himself more time to concentrate on researching and developing new ideas.
	www.hammond-organ.com /History/laurens.htm (924 words)

	Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The original Hammond Organ was Designed and built by the ex-watchmaker Laurens Hammond in April 1935.
		Hammonds machine was designed using technology that relates directly to Cahill's 'Telharmonium' of 1900, but, on a much smaller scale.
		The Hammond organ generated sounds in the same way as the Telaharmonium, the tone weel-The tone generator assembly consisted of an AC synchronous motor connected to a geartrain which drove a series of tone wheels, each of which rotated adjacent to a magnet and coil assembly.
	www.obsolete.com /120_years/machines/hammond (297 words)

	Benton Electronics Hammond Story
		Laurens Hammond, the inventor of the Hammond Organ and the founder of the company which bears his name, was born on January 11, 1895, in Evanston, Illinois.
		Laurens Hammond was an avid and acute reader with a remarkable memory.
		Hammond Organs are found in some of the most remote areas of the jungle, the polar regions of the north and south and literally everywhere else that man inhabits.
	www.bentonelectronics.com /hammondstory.html (8333 words)

	Hammond organ
		The Hammond organ is an electronic organ which was designed and built by Laurens Hammond in April 1935.
		While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a low-cost alternative to the pipe organ, it came to be used for jazz, blues, and to a lesser extent rock music and gospel music.
		Hammonds can be divided into two main groups: the 'Console' models such as the B-3, C-3 or A-100 which have two 61 note manuals and the smaller 'Spinet' models that have two 44 note manuals such as the L-100 and the M-100.
	www.mp3.fm /Hammond_Organ.htm (541 words)

	Laurens Hammond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laurens Hammond (January 11, 1895–July 3, 1973), was an engineer and inventor of the Hammond organ.
		Laurens Hammond was born in Evanston, Illinois to William Andrew and Idea Louise Strong Hammond.
		This invention brought Laurens enough money to leave Gray Motor Company and rent his own space in New York, where he was to develop the synchronous electric motor that he would use later in the manufacture of his electric clocks and which would ultimately lead to the invention of the tonewheel organ.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laurens_Hammond (765 words)

	Laurens Hammond
		When Laurens Hammond invented the Hammond-tonewheel in 1934, this was the beginning of an unmatched culture,history and industry, that was recognised throughout the world.
		The achievement of Hammond in synthesing a rotating tone generator, synchronous electric motor, keyboard and amplified speaker is outstanding largely in view of the efforts of scores of contemporaries who were seeking the same end and had common access to the same generic elements.
		Hammond had first used the motor in his Teleview, a three-dimension motion picture which closed one month after opening to critical acclaim at the Selwyn Theatre in New York City on Dec. 27, 1922.
	users.telenet.be /saelsm/laurens_hammond.htm (1260 words)

	Untitled Document
		Laurens Hammond was a brilliant inventor who held 110 electrical and mechanical patents by the time he retired.
		Laurens Hammond obviously didn't like Leslie Speakers but it's unlikely his bias was based on the "bad sound" of his tone cabinets.
		Hammond competitors were building new organs with numerous "bells and whistles" and the simplistic B3 was less popular with inexperienced and casual organ buyers.
	www.midiguru.net /hammond.htm (5243 words)

	Hammond Organ Story (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The instrument was the basic 1937 BC Model Hammond in a higher case to accommodate the roll playing mechanism that was made avail-able through agreement with the Aeol-ian Skinner Organ Company of Boston.
		Although the concept of reverberation occurred to Laurens Hammond in 1939, it was not until 1959 that the newly deve-loped dry reverberation unit was per-fected to provide a truly practical solu-tion to enhance this particular area of tone reproduction.
		Through these Hammond International Companies and the network of distrihutorships established by them world-wide, the name Hammond continues to be known and respected around the world.
	www.bunyanbug.com /jazzbug/pages/HammondorganStory.html (8325 words)

	Leslie/Hammond Facts and Rumors
		Laurens Hammond was a brilliant inventor who held 110 electrical and mechanical patents by the time he retired.
		Laurens Hammond obviously didn't like Leslie Speakers but it's unlikely his bias was based on the "bad sound" of his tone cabinets.
		Hammond competitors were building new or-gans with numerous "bells and whistles" and the simplistic B3 was less popular with inexperienced and casual organ buy-ers.
	www.mitatechs.com /leslierumors.html (5433 words)

	Hammond Toonwielorgelvereniging Nederland › Uitvinder Laurens Hammond
		Laurens Hammond is de uitvinder van het Hammondorgel.
		Omdat Laurens Hammond zelf geen muzikale achtergrond had, zocht hij hulp bij de musicus W.L. Lahey, die kerkorganist was.
		Laurens Hammond bleef president-directeur van het bedrijf tot 1955, waarna hij zijn functie neerlegde om zich op de research te concentreren.
	hammondclub.mediakinetics.nl /nl/menu/Over_Hammond/Uitvinder_Laurens_Hammond (429 words)

	IEEEVM: Laurens Hammond
		His route to the invention of the Hammond organ was a long and twisted one, however.
		During this phase of his career Hammond made another important invention, a synchronous motor designed to revolve in phase with a 60-cycle electric alternating current, which was becoming standard at the time.
		Hammond changed the name of his company to the Hammond Instrument Company in 1937 to reflect the importance of this new invention.
	www.ieee-virtual-museum.org /collection/people.php?id=1234780&lid=1 (423 words)

	GEPR List of Progressive Rock Instruments
		The original Hammond Organ was designed and built by the ex-watchmaker Laurens Hammond in 1935.
		This, in conjunction with the famous Hammond "key click" caused by the mechanical contacts is the sound made famous by Keith Emerson during his The Nice and Emerson, Lake and Palmer days, though this sound was used by '50's jazz musicians such as Jimmy Smith and Richard "Groove" Holmes long before Emerson did it.
		Hammond also patented an electromechanical reverb device using the helical tortion of a coiled spring (a.k.a.
	www.gepr.net /proginst.html (6092 words)

	Hammond Central - The New X-B3M
		Laurens Hammond originally conceived the Hammond Organ as an instrument capable of reproducing high-quality organ music a a fraction of the cost of a pipe organ.
		Many Hammonds originally built in the 40's and 50's are still in use in churches, chapels, and Sunday schools all over the world.
		Hammond's XB-3M and XC-3M models are specially designed and crafted with the needs of the Gospel church musician in mind.
	www.hammondcentral.com /xb3m.htm (575 words)

	dustbury.com: The music goes round and round
		Hammond, infuriated, reworked their speaker outputs to be incompatible with the Leslie's inputs.
		Hammond dealers were forbidden to sell Leslies, and Hammond briefly offered an in-console rotational system that proved to be a poor substitute for a Leslie.
		Eventually, Hammond started looking the other way when their dealers stocked Leslies, and many Hammond artists would demand that Leslies be available for their live performances.
	www.dustbury.com /archives/003098.html (570 words)

	Secrets of the Hammond Organ!
		The Hammond organ was the brainchild of Laurens Hammond, who introduced the first Model A in 1935.
		The signature sound of the Hammond is produced by a set of 91 "tonewheels", with precisely cut notches that rotate within magnetic fields.
		The classic Hammond 'growl' is provided by a combination of all these things, and despite the best efforts of contemporary synthesizer manufacturers, has proved surprisingly resistant to emulation.
	www.thesoundsmith.com /private/hammond1.htm (748 words)

	Laurens Electric Cooperative
		The ride began at Laurens Electric’s main office off Highway 14 in Laurens, and included several locations across the Upstate where participants rested and drew cards.
		Laurens Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electric utility serving 47,000 families and businesses in seven counties of the Upstate since 1939.
		Dennis Waldrop of Simpsonville is one of the first riders to register at Laurens Electric’s 3rd Annual Poker Run for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.
	www.laurenselectric.com /News_Notices/Aug_2005Poker.html (441 words)

	Laurens Hammond 1895
		Laurens viste teknisk snilde i en meget tidlig alder.
		Laurens læste til maskiningeniør på Cornell Universitetet, og sluttede med en "honours degree" i 1916.
		Laurens Hammond havde ikke bare skabt et produkt, eller en stor industri, med hans model A tonehjulsorgel i 1934.
	www.hammondonmymind.dk /laurens_hammond.htm (798 words)

	Hammond As In Organ, by Stuyvesant Barry
		The Hammond organ is so well known that when Roxana Hammond gives her last name to a telephone operator, the operator often asks, "Hammond as in organ?" It's not known just in this country, but all over the world - probably just as well in Poland, for example, as in the United States.
		And when I tell friends I'm writing the biography of Larry Hammond of the Hammond Organ Company, they often ask, "Is he the son or the grandson of the man who invented it?" It's hard to believe that the inventor is still living, that the first Hammond organ was sold in 1935.
		All Hammond B3, C3, RT-3, D-152, B2, A-100 and C-2 organs sold with Leslies are warranteed for satisfaction and 1 year parts, 90 days parts and labor unless Sold as-is. All other models are sold As-Is, working, satisfaction guaranteed.
	thehammondorganstory.com (897 words)

	hammond
		A real Hammond with both (49-note) manuals having the full drawbar system for the tonewheel sounds, which was the original system invented by Laurens Hammond back in the 1930s.
		The keybeds are Hammond originals, providing a wonderful feel and playing action whilst the sound is truly stunning.
		It was built to be used with Hammond LSI organs like the Concorde, but worked with the two channel Lowrey, Baldwin, Yamaha and other 70's vintage organs.
	www.premierorgans.co.uk /hammond.htm (281 words)

	HAMMOND.DE - GESCHICHTE, MUSIK [MP3] und VIDEOS
		Hammond wird aufgefordert, sein Instrument nicht mehr als Orgel zu Bezeichnen und nicht mehr zu behaupten, daß die damit zu erzeugende Anzahl von Klangvariationen „unendlich“ sei.
		Hammond wird als einzige Firma ausgewählt, Orgelmodelle für die Musikalische Betreuung der Armee zu bauen.
		Zu diesem runden Jubiläum bringt HAMMOND gleich zwei äußerst markante neue Instrumente, die ganz der Tradition folgen und alles vereinen, was in den letzten Jahrzehnten bei Hammond an Erfahrung gesammelt wurde: die New B-3 portable als erse transportable B-3 und im Sommer das neue Orgel-Masterkeyboard XK-3.
	www.hammond.de /geschichte-musik.html (1627 words)

	The Hammond Organ
		Designed as the Hammond organ model "A" console, it was patentet by the American inventor and clockmaker Laurens Hammond from Evanstone / Illinois (1895 - 1973) in 1934.
		Hammond spinet organs like series M3, M100, L100,T100, but also the later produced full size console organs series H100, X66, X77, E100, R100 and the "drawbarless" church organ model G100 are not really important in the history of Hammond Organ Jazz.
		Laurens Hammond passed away in 1973 and sadly the Hammond Organ Company stopped the production of "tonewheel organs" in 1974.
	www.tonewheelrecords.umm.at /tonewheel/hammond_organ_eng.html (921 words)

	Amazon.com: Keyboard Presents the Hammond Organ: Beauty in the B: Books: Mark Vail (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Though Fisher often plays it on B3 in concert (his Hammond was stolen in the 70's when he lent it to Brooker and Reid of Procol Harum after he left that band), the original recording was done on an M-102.
		Also present editorially is the omnipresent Hammond hyperbole, such as declaring the G-100 a "technical success", which, of course, it wasn't...it was an adject failure which booted Hammond out of the "big organ" market for good.
		What there is, is in the form of short recollections of a former Hammond engineer, under the rather general umbrella of "other Hammonds." His firsthand info is nice, but I think that the same kind of research and anecdotal info lavished on the Hammond consoles would have made this a great general-purpose Hammond tome.
	www.amazon.com /Keyboard-Presents-Hammond-Organ-Beauty/dp/0879304596 (1877 words)

	Hammond Page
		While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a low-cost alternative to the pipe organ, it came to be used for jazz, and to a lesser extent rock music and gospel music.
		Accurate imitation of the Hammond sound with electronics is difficult, because the phase relationship between tonewheels is difficult to replicate.
		Hammond organs do not have a full AGO pedalboard, something that was done originally for cost and size reasons.
	www.e-prog.net /keyboards/hammond.htm (918 words)

	Amazon.com: The Hammond Organ: Beauty in the B (Keyboard Musician's Library): Books: Mark Vail (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Now fully updated, The Hammond Organ: Beauty in the B traces the technological and artistic evolution of the B-3 and other tonewheel organs, as well as the whirling Leslie speakers that catapulted the Hammond sound into history.
		It gave a good description of who Laurens Hammond was, such as being inventor of the electric clock.
		A detailed history of Laurens Hammond and his Organ Company is also wonderfully covered with many quotes from company insiders.
	www.amazon.com /Hammond-Organ-Keyboard-Musicians-Library/dp/0879307056 (1800 words)

	Hammond Orgeln (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zu dieser Zeit versuchte Laurens Hammond Töne mittels eines Synchronmotors zu erzeugen.
		Laurens Hammond fand heraus, dass Ton Räder einer bestimmten Größe, die sich in einer bestimmten Geschwindigkeit nahe einem Magneten drehen einen einzigartigen "synthetischen Ton" produzieren.
		Laurens Hammond wußte über Orgeln und ihre Spielweise Bescheid, und somit wollte er ein kommerziell sehr erfolgversprechendes Produkt auf den Markt bringen: Die Hammond Orgel sollte einen ungleich billigeren Ersatz zu den "Pfeifen-Kirchenorgeln" darstellen.
	www.raphaelwressnig.com /deutsch/hammond.htm (230 words)

	Laurens Hammond and Don Leslie
		Mitchell into his living room where he saw a Hammond organ sitting there, and he noticed that there was a small hole cut in one of the doors in the living room that was covered with a screen-type of curtain [grille-cloth].
		He found out later that Laurens Hammond did NOT like the idea of the Leslie speaker at all (perhaps professional jealousy — who knows??), and he most definitely did not want anything to do with it.
		Hammond tried several ways of producing the same chorus and tremolo effects, first introducing the double-generator chorus effect and then the new-style, and much-improved, Vibrato and, eventually, even coming up with their own type of rotary-baffle speaker.
	www.137.com /hammond/leslie.html (1708 words)

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