[sdiy] Hammond Pitch Bend, was:Hammond Vibrato Scanner

[Ingo Debus]

Am 02.01.2008 um 21:03 schrieb Matti Kari:

>
>> Or was it at the beginning of Wandering Song (on the Magician's  
>> Hat album)? The pitch here goes down pretty fast and then settles  
>> on the correct value. I always thought this was because the tape  
>> machine was started after the organ was already playing.
>
> I don't have the album in question but the effect you mention can also
> be easily achieved just by turning the organ on and off quickly
> (especially those units which feature the self-starting motor -  
> i.e. L-,
> R-, E- and T-series).

No, that's a different effect. In this case the pitch goes down  
*from* the correct pitch (when the motor is turned off), or up *to*  
the correct pitch (motor turned on again). On the Bo Hansson song the  
pitch goes down *to* the correct pitch. There's another piece of Bo  
Hansson (on The Lord Of The Rings album) where someone obviously is  
tinkering with the tape recorder speed, perhaps not even by intention.

> Keith Emerson is probably the most famous user of
> this trick. Can be heard on several The Nice / ELP songs. What first
> comes to my mind is the live version of Rondo.

Or Colosseum's Valentyne Suite :-)

Ingo