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

[cheater cheater]

If I were you I'd make two tuning panels, and a single knob to morph
between them. For example one could be equal temp and the other could
be some crazy tuning - see how far you can morph into that before it
stops being interesting.. or before it starts being interesting????
:-)

D.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 14:25, JH. <jhaible at debitel.net> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
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