Acepting the well known Hum... and Buzz listing for the green and yellow Hammond tone bars.. ; or draw bars.. ; </p>
Does anyone know from the correct information, orig. sources, etc, just WHAT they were supposed to produce in standard English?; surely it was not Hum and Buzz. What real world tones did Hammond say they are supposed to be?-? (I looked in archives, and found only hum and buzz...)
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Many thanks... They do tend to those sounds ...er.... , it seems .., at least to "some" point. Being sure of their desig. now, I will try a bit more in combination, to get a more ORGAN like sound...Many tries, many numbers...</p>
But, I also remember green and yellow draw bars on other Hammond's don't I? Or maybe all the mass of colors on different mfgrs. organs, for so many different controls has left me totally confused, and with no memory of what really was real!!! </p>
Let me correct that. The green was supposedly a reed sound.</p>
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It was meant to be 'flutey'! But I think Lloyd has seen through Hammond's disguise.
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I called them 'bubble and squeak'! As for being on other Hammonds, a couple of smaller spinets had just 8' green and yellow, but the B3000 console had its lower manual 'B' preset key controlled by a full set of 9 green and yellows from 16' to 1', IIRC.
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It's not what you play. It's not how you play. It's the fact that you're playing that counts.
Well, I'm so confused... :) And my Aurora has taken a dump today and isn't cooperating at all. It is time to either haul it to the garage for a good going over, or to the tip. And frankly, I'm in a quandry about that. I hate to just dump it as I keep thinking someone might appreciate it with all its quirks, but for me to play it much just isn't going to happen. It is much more limited than I thought it was, although it does sound very good on those days it decides to play nice!</p>
I have such fond memories of my first Hammond, which was an Aurora Classic. I paid big bucks for it when I got it new and have regretted that I no longer have it. But I think a lot of that is foggy memories because this little EA5 that I have is so much more organ than that Aurora Classic was.</p>
The only thing I think I know about the Aurora was that one color was supposed to emulate the tonewheel sound and the other was to be reeds.</p>
You are making me pleased of my Aurora... ($29 at a sale..) for it does nothing wrong; it is just missing the G# in the pedal.. It wss very messed up when I brought it home, before clean-up...
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I did pull one that most would not... HCL to clean metal to metal contact inc circuit boards ... however I have extensive exp. in neut. it so it works well for me... NO repeats on failure for several years...</p>
I do feel strongly the need for a full manual/pedal console, but I am playing the Aurora a lot anyway... </p>
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