[LAU] [music] Hermann's mill

[David Kastrup]

Bill Purvis <bill at billp.org> writes:

> On 28/06/2022 13:01, David Kastrup wrote:
>> david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> writes:
>>
>>> Jeanette!
>>>
>>> That was very nice. I really liked the mix of traditional-sounding
>>> organ and synthesizer. I think they go together very well.
>>>
>>> Although I'm not going to consult a friend who is a fanatic about
>>> "original instruments" and Baroque organs and utterly hates
>>> synthesizers.
>> What's his take on Hammond organs (tone wheels rotating before pickups)?
>> Certainly an "original instrument", not a synthesizer, not a digitally
>> sampled thing.
> I would classify it as a synthesizer, as it is synthesizing the sounds from
> basic tones, with some crude filtering.

The "basic tones" are from physical rotation.  And Italian pipe organs
also synthesize the sounds from basic tones instead of having single
stops with a characteristic tone (which is more in the German organ
tradition).

-- 
David Kastrup