Hammond b-3 was the best organ ever made. I play the Hammond everyday. It’s the best sound ever.

So much history behind this God sent instrument. Hammond Organs are gold.

Hammond is hands down the greatist instrument produced!!! If not for Hammond I wouldn't have wanted to play a musical instrument, but still enjoy playing my B-3 and several of their SK Keyboards! Thanks for posting.

all these other companies trying to RE INVENT the wheel will never achieve what MR Laurens Hammond created. The man was a genius

@benjaminacargen7799

Жыл бұрын

but we have to accept it, a lot of new Hamoond- like organs just sound as they are the real thing! Benjie/Philippines. 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

@James_Bowie

7 ай бұрын

IMO, John Hanert deserves the main design credit. LH had the ideas and was a great salesman.

On the other hand, they didn't use the finest quality foam behind the manual wires for organs built after 1965. After all these years, the foam will dissolve those hundreds of tiny resistor wires and kill the organ if no action is taken before. My 1949 C2 still works wonderful today. It needed a capacitor change a few years ago, that's all. The dried wax caps muffle the sound and the electrolytic caps will make the organ hum. They were not designed to last so long.

@James_Bowie

7 ай бұрын

Hammond wasn't the only manufacturer of electronic equipment who used that awful foam. The difference is that Hammond's gear has usually outlasted all the other stuff.

@Sturzi

6 ай бұрын

@James_Bowie my Wurlitzer 200a contained that foam too. But in a place where it couldn't harm any components.

I use 122 vintage Leslie and 3300 Leslie at the same time, with 2 separate switches to control my Hammond b-3. Best sound ever.

This is absolutely fantastic, watched it a few years ago but great to revisit it again. The Hammond organ as well as their clocks are such an amazing thing. I have a M3 and a M143 and the quality and build that went into these is stunning.

Best hammond documentar I 've ever seen

Nothing beats a tonewheel Hammond period

A local church was giving one of these away, but it was too big for me to move. Wow! What an amazing part of manufacturing history.

@charlie.pentatree

4 жыл бұрын

Give me one pls!!!!!

@scrunchymacscruff1244

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlie.pentatree #metoo

I have a much more appreciation for Hammond organs after seeing this. My mom worked at a music store called Grinnell Brothers that sold Hammonds and she would demonstrate them to prospective buyers. She told me that a Hammond never needed tuning like other organs! We had a B3 in our church for many years and I always enjoyed hearing it being played as I entered the sanctuary!

I wish someone would start back making these changing none of the methods or parts used

Thanks for posting this Jewel of a video! :)

❤️❤️❤️👑💒Organs 💒👑❤️❤️❤️ The Organ ist the Queen 👑 of all Music Instruments

9:27 - It's compact size, and LIGHT WEIGHT... - got it.

@raidone7413

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@taxicamel

Жыл бұрын

Yes, my reaction as well ...until put into context with the typical "church organ" found in a church previously ....which was a PIPE ORGAN....and the mention of "small auditoriums" and "second organs for churches". These organs could be moved very easily by "experienced movers". They were "self-contained" is probably the point. .

@MrKersey

7 ай бұрын

Well that was Hammond M3, compared to C3, it really is compact and light weight.

Órgão hammond excelente instrumento de se ouvir pelas melhores bandas de vários ritmos músicais dos ANOS 60 E 70 ótimo video PARABÉNS SÃO PAULO BRASIL.

Most important musicinstrument made

@MrJOHNNYLIGHTNING

4 жыл бұрын

Yavol mein heir.......I concur. That and the leslie. For 2 guys that hated each other they sure went hand in hand!

@garys8990

3 жыл бұрын

You are sooo right!!!

If only products were made like this nowadays

@taxicamel

Жыл бұрын

That's the problem ...no company owner would ever allow the amount of detailed processes to be done. Cost is far too high even with the lowest cost labour. Company ownership is only interested in making a profit ....nothing else ....otherwise there is no point. Just imagine the selling price of something that takes several hundred hours to make ...then add the materials costs ....then final product shipping costs ....and then the profit mark-up. The point being, to your comment, everything Hammond did was done "in-house" where everything was fully controlled. No one does this anymore. As much is "out-sourced" to keep capital costs as low as possible. Now the "detail" is lost or completely gone. .

@WaltKurtz68

Жыл бұрын

@@taxicamel It's a sad state of affairs.

Have a listen to the Hammond playing of Deep Purple's Jon Lord - particularly the live stuff. His tone, technique and playing were all utterly superb.

@MrJOHNNYLIGHTNING

2 жыл бұрын

It is said that Lord had an RMI 368 Electra-Piano custom built into a B3....I'm sure you can check and find out.

temos um hammond b3 na nossa igreja no centro de São Paulo. um ótimo instrumento.

Great old commercial❤

My first job was QC'ing Hammond organs (M's and A's I think) at the Boosey and Hawkes factory in North London. The stringent quality control described here did not apply, I was 19, and it was my first job out of college. If the organ basically worked that was it.

@hammondc366

Жыл бұрын

I have a 1963 C-3 that came from Boosey & Hawkes and I am very grateful that the build quality still does it after 60 years of more or less intense use.

Great for wooly bully watch it now 😮

At one time they had 3 US factories. Now they're just a brand name owned by Suzuki.

Most of the longevity is true, but despite silver contacts you can always tell an old Hammond by scratchy drawbars.

Thank you.

All of those paper and wax capacitors.

Pre OSHA times, apparently. Or those guys spraying lacquer had lungs impervious to inhaling toxic fumes.

@AugustoJParma

Жыл бұрын

No gloves, no masks, filters, security glasses.... no nothing...

@onemoremisfit

4 ай бұрын

They were spraying in a special booth with a powerful exhaust blower that would draw the fumes in a direction away from the person spraying and exhaust them out of the building, which is why you don't see any cloud of fumes. That and air dried lacquer is not nearly as toxic as modern chemically hardened paint coatings. Nobody was suffering any harm. They painted cars like this too during the 60s and 70s using downdraft booths. The floor of the booth was open grating and the blower would draw the air straight down. The painters wore no masks, the fumes never got above the painters knees because of the powerful downward draft.

NO Company has ever matched HAMMOND. They can come close but they will never duplicate the VINTAGE HAMMOND. The Hammond XK5 is as close to vintage as you can get.

@garys8990

2 жыл бұрын

I had an Xk-3 and it was fantastic. Now I have the SKx and Sk-1 and they are also amazing!

I like the b3 organ made

Eterno ❤

I saw by 8:31 M3 history also :-) And pre A100 period, before 1959.

@scottbc31h22

5 ай бұрын

The M type spinet organs came out in the late 1940s. The spinet version of the BV and CV. In 1950, the M-2 was introduced, as the spinet version of the B-2 and C-2 0rgans. The M-3 was introduced in 1955, corresponding to the B-3 and C-3.

Too bad the original 4:3 aspect ratio was stretched to 16:9. 😥

This footage must be from at least 300 years ago

@hammondc366

Жыл бұрын

Definitely before 1958 since they discontinued the quatrefoil design on the C style console organs after that

@onemoremisfit

4 ай бұрын

@@hammondc366 It looks like no earlier than mid 50s going by the the cars in the plant parking lot.

4:3 motion picture distorted to 16:9.

probably one of the first binary systems

@DandyDon1

3 жыл бұрын

Well..... The Tel harmonium was actually nearly the same principal on a much larger scale.

I remember seeing in an old "Hammond Times" Periodical reference to a Hammond Film for (I think it was) Chapel Organists in the USAF called something like "Wings Over Sound" or something like that. It would be interesting if a copy of that survives someplace? There's a "Finale" section that is missing from this Print. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZXua2MN6YJXPYNY.html

@dontroutman8232

3 жыл бұрын

Next time the chapel is open (under roof work, again) I'll take a look. My Grandma lived in Colorado Springs as well, so when we were here, I learned on her B-3.

@craigbrowning9448

3 жыл бұрын

@@dontroutman8232 I can't find an exact date, but probably in the Mid-Late 1970s Allen got awarded the Military Chapel Organ contract away from Hammond.

@dontroutman8232

3 жыл бұрын

I'll go with on your knowledge of the subject. They were doing a full restoration last year, on the pipes, and parts, of both the upper and lower organs.

@craigbrowning9448

3 жыл бұрын

@@dontroutman8232 So I take it you've either Seen this Film or are familiar with the location where it was shot?

@dontroutman8232

3 жыл бұрын

@@craigbrowning9448 my pop was a '63 Grad. I've lived in Colorado Springs for over 40 years now.

It's HAMMOND HAMMOND HAMMOND stupid. It's always HAMMOND. These companies like Viscount & their LEGEND is a WANT2B. It sucks

@HaHaHaHope

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. I have a 1956 B3 and 122 Leslie and the Viscount clone. I only bought the Viscount cause at the time my B3 was down and I needed to record B3 tracks. Even with viscount through my Leslie it had a tiny sound in comparison to the B3. I had to avoid upper register on viscount in order to hide that I wasn’t playing B3. The B3 is back up thanks to an amazing tech who travelled far to help me. Steve Reist is the one to get if you are as fortunate as I was.

She really loves to play those Strauss Waltzes! Now, everybody skate. ⛸️⛸️ 😊