I just spent a few hours........

[J. Larry Hendry]

Well, we don't get too many rantings on this board, so perhaps one now and
then is OK.  :)   Speaking of a pain to keep in tune.  About 10 years ago
an agent sent our dance band to a gig on a boat.  Now, I ain't talking a
cruise ship here.  This was a paddle boat that cruised a small man made
lake.  The power came from an on-board deisel generator.  A nice enough
outfit, but not very good about chasing frequency as load went up and down.
 Needless to say, the Hammond B3 was useless because of its mechanical tone
generators.

Larry Hendry
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Eric wrote (excuse my liberal snipping of the main ranting):

> Old tube organs had probles with this, AT FIRST. After WWII, they
> knew how to make stable LC resonators, which was the REAL stability
> issue. Crude iron-core inductors were widely used to set oscillator
> pitch--the development of special alloys (and later, ferrites)
> helped enormously. This is why the first versions of the Hammond
> Solovox were such a pain to keep in tune, while the final Type L
> version of 1949 was much more stable. (even so, Hammond "experts"
> continue to curse all Solovoxes as unstable.