Re: "Wah-wah, You've given me a wah-wah."
Yes, I've done this. An unusual effect so I didn't use it that much. Some Lowrey home organs from the 60's and early 70's had the function built in. When switched on, the organ's volume pedal controlled the wah effect.</p>
Andy
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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.
Re: "Wah-wah, You've given me a wah-wah."
Waking my foggy memory again. I had a Wurlitzer that would do that and I believe a Kimball from about that same era had it too. And I think a lot of the 70's and early 80's organs had a wah-trumpet tab/stop.</p>
Re: "Wah-wah, You've given me a wah-wah."
Some Gulbransen models had the "electro-mute" stop/effect controlled by a knee lever - basically the same thing. First appeared on the 1135 Rialto K in 1964 I think...</P>
-jim</P>
Jimmy Williams
Hobbyist (organist/technician)
Gulbransen Model D with Leslie 204
Re: "Wah-wah, You've given me a wah-wah."
Groove Holmes would be proud! I think he was the King of funky wah-wah organ.</P>
Another trick you can play with is hold down the 'C' preset key with your pinky while keying back and forth between two other presets keysto get wah typetone changes</P>
Re: "Wah-wah, You've given me a wah-wah."
The Peddlers and the Big organ Trio also put wah in their FX chain.</p>
The normal thing would be to put a FET buffer at some stage in the organ and have an effects loop (probably recipes on the forum somewhere) but I vaguely remember hearing that one of the above blokes had the wah put after the upper manual, so the lower was still playing normally. I can't confirm that however. </p>
Re: "Wah-wah, You've given me a wah-wah."
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.....I vaguely remember hearing that one of the above blokes had the wah put after the upper manual, so the lower was still playing normally. I can't confirm that however. </P>
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That is how Groove Holmes set his up. Wah-wah on the top manual andthe bottom straight. He also played organ through and envelope filter. I think most guys today refer to an envelope filter as an auto wah. I used to play a Hohner Clavinet through an envelope filter. That was the hip thing to do i the 70s. I always did like that sound.</P>
Here is an article on Groove Holmes that sort of goes into his effects. Plus thae guy has a bunch of MP3 clips of Groove playing.</P>
Dang, After hearing this and listening the the Big Organ Trio all week, I gotta get me a Wah Wah too! </p>
Besides the Wah Wah I just love the tone that Big Organ Trio's B3 player gets. I've been trying to get the sound he gets on Hip Hugger with my M3, OD unit and Leslie. Anyone know what kind of Leslie/amp setup he uses?</p>
I'll tell ya, this group is getting me back to listening Jazz Fusion stuff again(Weather Report used to be one of my favorites). Are there any other groups now using the Hammond in a similar vein?</p>
Dang, After hearing this and listening the the Big Organ Trio all week, I gotta get me a Wah Wah too! </p>
Besides the Wah Wah I just love the tone that Big Organ Trio's B3 player gets. I've been trying to get the sound he gets on Hip Hugger with my M3, OD unit and Leslie. Anyone know what kind of Leslie/amp setup he uses?</p>
I'll tell ya, this group is getting me back to listening Jazz Fusion stuff again(Weather Report used to be one of my favorites). Are there any other groups now using the Hammond in a similar vein?</p>
Re: "Wah-wah, You've given me a wah-wah."
Actually, I kinda agree with ya baggy, I picked up a bunch of spyro gyra a while back on LP, it was fun, but sure not as aggressive as early Focus.</p>
It wasn't just the Americans that went slick though. Listen to the Focus albums Focus Con Proby or Mother Focus or whatever... they'd completely lost their edginess and gone the slick Elevator way of late 70's like everybody else. "hip" Lounge music!</p>
That late 70's game show fusion dated really badly, while the earlier stuff still has a fresh rawness that doesn't get old. It's when sophistication and a self congratulatory "cleverness" sets in that a band gets mouldy really quick!</p>
Big Organ Trio are good and raw.</p>
Focus are back good and strong, I got an email from a friend this week who was on his way to see them in concert. They were sitting in the plane in the row ahead of him!</p>
On the Internet Archive there's a a band... I think they're "Robert Walter's Heavy Organ" something or other, but they are more jazzy and less like Hendrix than the BOT.</p>
Chris Vipond recently mentioned Medeski, Martin, and Wood, a different sort of trio but their stuff on Myspace was pretty innovative. They're quite new.</p>
The other thing is to go to BOT's myspace page and trawl thru their top friends....</p>
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