Our Church had a combined joint service with a neighboring black congregation last Sunday at their Church. The instruments were organ and drums. The organist played a console Hammond (it had internal speakers and percussion, I think it was an A-100) through a small Leslie. It might have been a 145.

I've heard most all the Hammond and Leslie imitations and simulations and after hearing the real thing again everything else is plastic and instant coffee. You hear the fake stuff for so long one tends to forget. The real thing sounded soooo good.

However, that being said, I will never haul a Hammond and a Leslie again. Given all the drawbacks for transporting the real thing, instant coffee is good enough for this old body.

Tom