[sdiy] Hammond Tuning /was: Re: Observations of synthesized

[JH.]

>in order to make relatively static tonewheels sound better, hammond used slightly altered tunings that make more of the common 
>chords sound better -- like G >major for example -- at the expense of other less popular chords. these inter-harmonic relationships 
>have defined a whole genre of playing styles that was only >enhanced by the application of overdrive, vibrato and leslie speakers.

That's interestig! I used to think the approximations were because of technical reasons (forgot what I thought it was exactly) ...
But you say it's like these old church organ tunings then?

I guess I have to try this on my PS-3200 clone which allows that kind of tuning. I have tried some of the church organ tunings, but 
they sound awfull with anything than, well, simple church music - no way to use this on Jazz chords. So I guess the Hammond 
(de-)tuning is less extreme?

JH.