My Father distributes the KeyB in the UK.

Many of you already know I worked for Hammond for years and when he told me about it..I just didn't want to know.

He ordered them in anyway, but I 'knew' I was going to hate it..its a clone after all. But it didn't matter how much I tried I couldn't fault the thing. Its like playing a real vintage Hammond, not a digital one.

He was the countries biggest Hammond agent and when the XK3 came out they were going out of the door like nobodys business, but he noticed straight away people were buying KeyB instead of XK systems. In the end he didn't bother stocking the XK system anymore.

In the last month he has taken two XK systems in for KeyB's. One went to the Steve Howe Trio (Guitarist from YES) and the other to John Paul Gard (Pedalmania). Both serious Hammond people.

I will never say anything against the current Hammonds, they are fine instruments if you like to tweek the sound, but if your serious about vintage keys its impossible to tell the KeyB from a vintage C3...and the Leslie Sim! all the years I worked with Hammonds and Leslie's I maintained a sim was just to get you by. Not so with the KeyB, you just don't need a leslie speaker.

Its all a bit depressing because I look after hammond-organ.com and run hammondzone yahoo email group which is the biggest organ group on the web. I tell you its messed me up big time and I hardly dare post on the yahoo group anymore.