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Topic: Hammond Organs and the FTC |
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Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Scott Duckworth
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Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies
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Posted 24 Feb 2019 3:19 am |
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If it ain't a Hammond, it ain't a church organ...
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Charlie McDonald
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out of the blue
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Posted 24 Feb 2019 7:56 am
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Bobby Nelson
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North Carolina, USA
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Posted 24 Feb 2019 8:02 am
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| Reminds me a little of Henry Ford's fight with the all powerful ALam. |
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2019 9:03 am
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I don’t think it got to the FTC, but didn’t the Nashville String Union take legal exception to studio steel players doing the BossTone-simulated-string-section thing in the 70’s?
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 26 Feb 2019 6:25 am
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Verrry interesting...I'm wondering if the pipe organ industry is still viable, since organ pipes are made mostly of lead, and these days that's a highly controlled and regulated substance. I can almost see the standard disclaimer now being required on the pipe organ keyboards, something on the order of...
"WARNING! - THIS INSTRUMENT CONTAINS VAST QUANTITIES OF A SUBSTANCE KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER, BIRTH DEFECTS, AND OTHER REPRODUCTIVE HARM."
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Jeff Garden
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Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2019 7:30 am
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
Verrry interesting...I'm wondering if the pipe organ industry is still viable, since organ pipes are made mostly of lead, and these days that's a highly controlled and regulated substance. I can almost see the standard disclaimer now being required on the pipe organ keyboards, something on the order of...
"WARNING! - THIS INSTRUMENT CONTAINS VAST QUANTITIES OF A SUBSTANCE KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE CANCER, BIRTH DEFECTS, AND OTHER REPRODUCTIVE HARM."
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Suddenly the expression "lead pipe cinch" doesn't seem so appropriate! |
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Bobby Nelson
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North Carolina, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2019 7:30 am
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| Dang! It's that "other reproductive harm" stuff that would steer me off! |
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Ian Rae
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Redditch, England
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Posted 26 Feb 2019 1:29 pm
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The European Union passed a law designed to ensure the use of lead-free solder in electronic keyboards which had the unforeseen effect of rendering pipe organs illegal.
Maybe it's sorted now.
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Matthew Walton
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Fort Worth, Texas
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Posted 13 Mar 2019 9:42 am
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| Donny Hinson wrote: |
| "WARNING! - THIS INSTRUMENT CONTAINS VAST QUANTITIES OF A SUBSTANCE KNOWN TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO CAUSE . . . REPRODUCTIVE HARM." |
As if just being an organ player wasn't already enough to cause that!
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Godfrey Arthur
From:
3rd Rock
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Posted 15 Mar 2019 8:55 pm
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Hammond then proceeded to distribute a module that provided classical pipe tones for your organ as an expander. Made by Dutch pipe organ makers, Content Organs and sold by Hammond as well.
The expander connects through MIDI and it sounds similar to this Content unit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTghqkjKJg0
Another company Organtechnologies offers this module for serious pipe players.
Then there's the software versions of pipe tones:
But yeah Laurens had his hands full with trying to launch the Hammond organ and from his Hammond clock company which today are collectible and still keep time running off of 60hz. Laurens used to give power company people his clocks to incentiveize them to keep the cycles at 60hz so his clocks would run properly.
This idea translates to today with any Hammond using the tonewheel generator that gets A-440 from AC 60Hz.
So much so is this an important issue, that frequency converters are made to keep your B3 in tune as power companies shift Hz constantly today.
Hammond made clocks before he made organs.
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