What's Your Favorite Organ?

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:03 am

Ha Ha!

Made you look!

Seriously, I was listening last night to some great old recordings of Fats Waller playing wild stuff on electric organ. This whet my appetite, and I ended up pulling out stuff by Booker T, Billy Preston, Jimmy Smith, 'Question Mark & the Mysterians' and others. What a great instrument!

But it occurred to me that I really know very little about organs. That lead to Googling and learning about the whole gamut of Farfisas, Hammonds, and the new 'clonewheels' that try to simulate other organs. Very cool stuff.

So, anyway, it's not a poll, because I know where that would go.....

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:34 am

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daveboling · Post by **daveboling** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:00 am

Hammond B-3 with a Leslie cabinet.

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:03 am

daveboling wrote:Hammond B-3 with a Leslie cabinet.

YUP can't beat that sound

rh · Post by rh » Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:09 am

What's my favorite organ? Well lately i've grown quite fond of my kidneys though i'm attached to all of them...

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:10 am

Penis.

(Am I the only person who would say that? Yes. Am I the only person who immediately thought that? No.)

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:52 am

Cranberry wrote:Penis.

(Am I the only person who would say that? Yes. Am I the only person who immediately thought that? No.)

Well, isn't that special?

Ronbo · Post by **Ronbo** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:02 am

Cranberry wrote:Penis.

(Am I the only person who would say that? Yes. Am I the only person who immediately thought that? No.)

Time to start taking your lithium again.

A-Musing · Post by **A-Musing** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:45 am

If your Hammond keeps independently blaring for more than four hours...see your Doctor.

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:54 am

I have an old Lowrey with a built-in Leslie speaker, and a Yamaha electronic keyboard sitting on top of it. I'd like to find a way to route the Yamaha into the Leslie.

Is there still any such thing as a Farfisa, or did someone else (e.g. Roland) take over the brand?

chas · Post by **chas** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:41 pm

Rod Argent is a great organ player. On the second Argent album the second side is mostly taken up with a piece that's about half solo organ. And the solo in Time of the Season is to die for.

Steppenwolf made great use of the Hammond/Leslie on their first few albums, although it's hardly used as a solo instrument.

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:02 pm

daveboling wrote:Hammond B-3 with a Leslie cabinet.

For the organ-dumb, what does this mean?

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:11 pm

oh, FJohn!!! That is so sad....

Cork · Post by **Cork** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:28 pm

FJohnSharp wrote:
daveboling wrote:Hammond B-3 with a Leslie cabinet.
For the organ-dumb, what does this mean?

If ever there could be a "classic" electric organ, indeed! To hear one, however, you'll need to go back in musical time, more than a few decades.

The Hammond was the big thing, just before synthesizers.

By the mid-seventies, however, those still playing the Hammond were sometimes called "specialists", as outdated as the Hammond was by then.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 5:56 pm

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BJCTrolF3CY
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KgZSnAkQc4c