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Elson,

Actually, this whole mess started because I watched a lesson tape of one of 
my favorite Hammond players, the late Jack McDuff, where he was 
demonstrating a technique where he played an open chord on the upper 
keyboard with a soft tone, then held his hand steady and graced down to the 
same notes on the lower keyboard, which had a much brighter tone 
setting.  If performed quickly (and accurately), the overall effect is 
similar to using a wah-wah or Mu-tron device.

On a Hammond B-3, with two keyboards only about an inch or so apart, 
height-wise, it's a reasonable technique to master.  On a pair of modern 
keyboards, though, it's difficult to get the two sets of keys close 
together, and so the result can actually be a sprained finger!  After doing 
my best to angle the AN1x above my Fatar, I still wasn't getting the 
desired results.  That's when I noticed that the High Cs on the two 
keyboards didn't quite line up -- and the rest, as they say, is history ...

Regards,

-BW

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At 02:54 p 7/13/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>At 11:04 AM 7/13/01 -0400, Bruce Wahler wrote:
> >For those who like to keep score:
> >
> >Yamaha AN1x             32.50"
> >KORG 01/W Pro           32.50"
> >Roland XP50             32.88"
> >Roland HP-3500s         33.00"
>
>Hey, it's not the size that counts but...