Hammond handed Don Leslie his hat and showed him the door, Don knew he had something golden. The Hammond’s life in all popular music-Jazz, Rock, Pop, and all places in-between was born at that moment.ĭon Leslie thought he had hit on a miracle, and rightly so, He promptly took his hot invention directly to Laurens Hammond but as fate would have it…Laurens Hammond hated the idea! He meant for his organ to play church and classical music, wanting his organ to sound like a traditional, classical/church pipe organ, and nothing but! Even though Mr. Actually, not quite exactly like a Theatre Pipe Organ, but a lush, rich, distinctive sound of its own. It made the Hammond Organ sound completely different. Pitch-changing vibrato, volume-changing Tremolo, and a little “whoosh” of moving air all put together. The spinning treble horn and bass rotor gave the Hammond Organ a “tremulant”, as it’s called in the pipe organ world. A fun fact here: Don built his first prototype using a closet for the enclosure! Don took a horn speaker and mechanically made it turn around in a circle. It’s why a train whistle seems to go down in pitch when a train passes you. Don Leslie capitalized on a principle called the “Doppler Effect”.
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