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In Reply to: RE: An Amazing location-live "A Whiter Shade of Pale" in a London Department Store (1973) posted by John Marks on April 13, 2024 at 07:46:05
and I'm a big Hammond Organ/Leslie Fan
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I totally suck at keyboards, but, I have great respect for great players.At 00:17 seconds, it seems to me that he substitutes the third finger of his right hand for his right thumb. It seems to me that he did that to free up his right thumb to be ready to play a needed lower note, while continuing the sustain of the note (I think it is a G) that the thumb is leaving.
As I said, I don't know that much about keyboard technique, but my guess is that if you were playing that on a piano, you could use the middle-pedal sostenuto to sustain that G with no finger switching. But playing a Hammond Organ, I think you are stuck.
Any real experts, please comment.
john
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if you ask any musician, they improvise any way they can or have to. We are all human and we have those moments when we have to pull off taking chances or correcting a mistake on the fly.
One thing the video didn't show was his use of Hammond bass pedals
I thought it was an inspired work-around to keep that note sounding.
I always thought that one of the factors that turned AWSOP into a worldwide hit was that the organ part was voiced to sound more like a church organ and less like any of the cheesy-sounding "Electronic-Organ Novelty Records" such as "The Happy Organ" (1959).
BTW, the studio drummer on "The Happy Organ" was named Gary Hammond.
john
you learn to 'lay out' and stop playing anything until you collect yourself and return. The last thing you want to do is distract the next chair and take your eyes off the conductor.
For Jazz, Rock etc, most of the time you just go with it and improvise, and sometimes the direction it takes you is fortuitous.
I've played all types of music and seen it done many times. Sometimes the audience doesn't even know it until the musician tells them afterwards
There's a now-closed recording studio which has/had two Hammond B3's and Leslies. I'm not saying where, 'cause I'm thinking of buying one of them.
:)
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but if you need a service tech, it takes about 100 12ax7's IIRC.
Call me anytime
The tone wheel organs don't have many tubes.
I think the non tone wheel organs have a tube stage generator for each note.
Tre'
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"Still Working the Problem"
And here's a link to a description.
and here's another:
https://www.procolharum.com/awsop_reg-cerdes.htm
john
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thanks but, the point was to get him to have me come over and at least play it someday and repair it if necessary. I used to want one YEARS ago but back then my wife wouldn't allow it in the houseEdit - please note that I heard many years ago the misinformation that that the Hammond had 12ax7's in it to generate tones which is not the case. Tre has pointed out this is not true
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I had a chance to get one once that was out of most of it's wood cabinet for Road use.
I didn't know how to play but the price was right and John Lord's sounded so good.
I went with two friends and my J-20 pickup knowing it was heavy but while we were to get it to the stairs, it was pretty much unanimous we were not going down that flight of stairs with it so we shoved it back into it's room.
So i say good luck!, that's an amazing instrument (some guitar processor will make it nicer for rock) especially when you see what makes it work.
Yeah, when I was the roadie sound guy for a little regional rock band, my 'motto' was "never carry what you can drag, never drag what you can roll, and never move what can be left where it is". LOLFortunately, we didn't have a Hammond B3!
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