<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 4, 2006, at 3:55 PM, John Speth wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Does anyone know why Yamaha uses 11 tones and the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">others only use 9?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Does anyone know which ones are</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">omitted in the BD4?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I couldn't find a BD4 users</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">manual on the web.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(Yamaha cont tones are 16, 8, 5+1/3, 4, 2+2/3, 2,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">1+1/3, 1.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Decay tones are 4, 2+2/3, 2.)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Hammond B3 organs have 9 drawbars. These relate only to the continuous tones, not the "decay" tones (Hammond calls those "Percussion", and they have separate switches to turn them on). Your group of 8 continuous tones is missing one of the traditional Hammond harmonics, but I don't know which one, unfortunately.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mike B.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>