[LAU] More Hammondology

[Ken Restivo]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:56:47PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:35:59PM -0700, Norval Watson wrote:
>  
> > A year or so ago my father told me he was driving down
> > the little road past his house in the forest and saw an
> > old organ dumped on the side of the road.
> > "Did you see the brand, Dad?"
> > "I think it said something like... Hammond..."
> > 
> > Sadly, that's about 20 hours drive from where I live.
> 
> Reminds me of a story told by my prof of acoustics
> long time ago. 
> 
> One day he was making an organ recording in some small
> village, and saw a Hammond sitting in a dusty corner
> of the church.
> 
> He asked the local organist about it.
> 
> - It's broken, we haven't used it for years.
> - What do you want for it ?
> - The pastor will be probably be happy if you
>   take it away.
> 
> So next day he returned with a bigger car, and
> asked the pastor who was indeed happy to see it
> removed. To keep his conscience clean, my prof
> donated some symbolical sum to a local charity.
> Returned home, replaced a few electrolytics, and
> the thing worked again.
> 
> This was the same person who hooked me into
> Ambisonics, and into computing. These were the
> TRS-80 days.

And here is a link to yours truly, fondling a real B3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Hn57auWxE

Clearly visible in the video is.... an emacs buffer with the setlist and changes.

This is the first time I've ever played this song; they showed me the changes during soundcheck. So I didn't get it exactly right, but man, was that fun!

-ken