[sdiy] Fwd: RIP Don Leslie

[Grant Richter]

> Don Leslie, creator of the Leslie rotating speaker cabinet and the
> first modulation effect, has left this world at the age of 93.
> 
> His creation made 90 percent of electric organ repertoire possible,
> and assisted textural music in non-obvious ways.
> 
> The extended bass response his cabinets gave the Hammond at once
> empowered us supper club organists, and put many a string bassist out
> of work. And what would "Stratosfear" have sounded like if it weren't
> for all the Leslied guitar, or who would have thought of the modulated
> delay line as a chorus effect to mimic the sound of Don's speaker?
> 
> Those of us who play organ and those of us who enjoy modulation
> effects have him to thank for a lot of things. So ... put on a Groove
> Holmes record, or a copy of Tangerine Dream's Rubycon, or just hit the
> A/B switch on your Vortex in his honour, if you see fit.
> --- 
> Eric Williamson 
> www.suitandtieguy.com