Double Leslie Hammond A100 (B3) Organ Blues
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ม.ค. 2025
- What's better than one Leslie speaker? Well two Leslie speakers of course! So I added a Leslie 145 next to my Leslie 251 and it sounds amazing through the Hammond A100! Don't have a good mic setup for it though.
Fabulous HAMMOND organ player. Tonewheels sing awesome. Magical.
The way to take this rig to the next level is to reverse the spin on one of the Leslies. There's an old harmonica player in our church who used to tour with a blues band in the 70's and he always talks about how they had two A122's and put them on either side of the stage and had them spinning in opposite directions. I've always imagined that would be the most insane sound. Great video and great playing!!!
I haven't heard of this approach but it sounds brilliant in that it would accentuate the Doppler effect.
Stereo effect by being out of phase with each other. The horn and big bottom speaker already spin in opposite rotations in an individual cabinet.
@@larryn2682 your right!
Two Leslies or not. That was insanely well played... Thank you for sharing it.
Thanks!
Without qualification this man is at least a high level master of the Hammond if not deity status.
Hardly. For starters, he is not using the bass pedals.
The emotion and skill levels off the scale, one of the best blues Hammond Organ players I've heard, What I'd give to be playing guitar with a keyboard player of that Caliber
This is beautiful to my soul!!
Well, I think based on that performance, this lad can put the cat out. Bravo.
The SCREAM of the BEAST!
Oh screaming she does indeed haha! Sound from heaven
Nice! Darn, I had a 1959 B-3 with 2 leslie 145 in my living room 🤩 again some day soon. Now my dream rig is an RT-3/D-100 or modified Concert Model E with two 31H cabinets modified to 122 or 770 specs.
The best in town !
2 ears -> 2 Leslies :-) go stereo !
Dude, I love your videos!!!! Make more please! A hug from Brazil!!!
Damn ! Wish I can p!ay keyboards like that !!
Great double tone machine ...
Love that!
Bravo!!!!👍👍🎹🎹
Nice!
LOVE it ! :D
Apparently Hammond Snr hated that the B3 was used for jazz and he didn’t like the Leslie additions one bit‼️✌️🌻
You nailed it bro. May I use like 10 seconds of the video as a sample?
Sure, with what intentions? If it's professional its a different situation
Play in my band!!! Haha!
So basically the Leslie amplifier147 & 251 has the same 6pin wiring?
I don't think so no, but i have the connector kits for both leslies
@@SjoerdHammond what type of kit you use for the Leslie 251
What years are the A100 and Leslies manufactured ? What are the power output ratings on the Leslies? Thanks, sweet playing as always.
A100 is 1961 Chicago built 117v, 251 is 1964 and I believe England built and 240V, 145 I don't know. Connecting both using a single tremolo switch took me weeks to come up with a working solution
I owned an A-100, which is the guts of a B3 in a console organ body that contains a simple speaker system (not rotating like a Leslie). Hammond stopped building tone wheel organs around 1975. The Leslie 122 that accompanied it contained an unsophisticated tube amplifier (sorry, don't know the power -- Wikipedia it!) that nevertheless provided a very high level of volume. When maxxed out the Leslie would distort, which added yet another level of intensity to this all-analog combination. My band played in bars, and transporting the A-100 and Leslie was back-breaking work, requiring a heavy duty furniture dolly. Eventually I had the organ "chopped," its internals stuffed into a lighter and more portable felt-lined box with four large handles. That was decades ago, but I have no doubt it is still out there somewhere.
Yes he plays good but why the h... does he have headphones on - can not hear the band (which is not there) or him self - or the the Leslies
Can you teach me
THE HAMMOND ORGAN WITH LESLIE SPEAKER
FROM A TH-cam COMMENT RE A YOUNG GUY PLAYING A B3
This young man's enthusiastic but heavy-handed playing style is compromised by his not using the pedalboard (two octaves of base notes played with the feet), instead relegating his left hand to play the base lines instead. This deprives his performance of fill chords usually played by the left hand on the lower keyboard as his right hand plays the melody. He is not playing any particular song, but instead is using his right hand to play blues "riffs," featuring downward glissandos (but none upward), and fast-played repeated phrasing, as popularized by Jimmy Smith in the 1960s. Jazz-rock innovators like Brian Auger incorporated modal phrasing to take this instrument to the next level of improvisation. (All the artists I mention can be found on TH-cam.)
What makes this track worth listening to is the player's demonstration of the Hammond A-100's signature sound as played through two Leslie 122 mechanical rotating speakers. The Hammond organ uses a electromechanical component called a tone wheel to generate a natural, physical sound that is amplified and played through speakers. The result is a pure sine wave, the flute-like tone produced by a church organ's tibia pipes. The Hammond's naturally-sourced tonality is made even richer when played through a Leslie speaker system, which employs a counter-rotating horn (for high notes) and bass speaker (for low notes) to create a natural Doppler effect as the sound "moves" relative to the speaker's ear.
In this demo, the player frequently switches the speed of his dual Leslie speakers from slow to fast and back, and if you listen closely you will hear the heavier bass rotator gaining and lose rotational speed on the low notes more slowly than the lightweight spinning horn which plays the high notes.
The Leslie's choral (low speed rotation) and tremulant (high speed rotation) effect could be combined with the Hammond organ's mechanically generated chorus and vibrato to produce exceptionally rich and complex sound.
Competitors to Hammond tried to mimic the tone wheel and Doppler effect via transistors and, later, using digital synthesizers, but none were successful in capturing the Hammond's richness (in musician parlance, its "fat"sound) and versatility: able to switch instantly from a pipe organ sound for choir accompaniment; to a piercing tonality for use playing jazz solos legato style, in the style of a horn or guitar player's single-note melody line; to the heavy and percussive "wall of sound" that adds fill and intensity to rock music; to the lush, orchestral sweetness popular in 1950s and '60s easy-listening music. A classic example of the latter is Earl Grant's rendering of "Ebb Tide."
Since the 1960s, a Hammond B3 organ with Leslie speaker have been a fixture in American recording studios, and visiting keyboard players accept no substitutes. The "Hammond sound" lives on in popular, jazz, rock, and gospel music, each using the instrument's voicing in different ways, and also in easy-listening music, where the instrument's lushness can rival that of a full orchestra.
Though production of Hammond tone wheel organs ended in the 1970s, their extremely durable mechanical design has extended surviving units' lifespan indefinitely. They are in constantly high demand, a well-sorted B3 fetching well up in the five figures. Like Stradivarius violins, Hammond organs are irreplaceable instruments whose uniquely beautiful sound will survive as long as music is made.
You have been away too long!!
Yeah I know, got busy with college and stuff
Two Words: "Sub- Scribed". I'm Done!!!!
Just throw in some wooly bully