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Originally posted by Tom Cavanaugh:
I think you folks are all confused. The Hammond is easy to emulate. It's the Leslie that gives it that sound. You can phase shift and doppler all you want but it won't make up for throwing the sound around the room and bouncing it off everything.

Tom


Beg to differ. Not quite that easy. The sound of 9 switches under each key sequentially completing a circuit on each busbar is what gives it the highly emulated, but not easily imitated, Hammond sound. Unless of course, you build a key switch with 9 contacts sequentially completing the 9 circuits.

To be sure, a really good Hammond player will exibit a fair amount of control over those contacts and their closure speed.