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The speaker is named after its inventor, Donald Leslie, who began working in the late 1930s to get a speaker for a Hammond organ that better emulated a pipe or theatre organ, and discovered that baffles rotating along the axis of the speaker cone gave the best sound effect. Hammond was not interested in marketing or selling the speakers, so ...
For his guitar solo, Page employed a backwards echo (where the echo is heard before the note), and also put his guitar through a Leslie speaker. [3] This was a technique Page had himself used as far back as his work with the Yardbirds, and faced serious opposition from audio engineers when he tried it on the earliest Led Zeppelin recordings.
Donald James Leslie (April 13, 1911 – September 2, 2004) was an American inventor best known for the Leslie speaker and its distinctive effect commonly used with the Hammond organ which helped popularize electronic instruments.
Black Sabbath lead vocalist Ozzy Osbourne uses a Leslie speaker to achieve the vocals' treble and vibration effects. [3] The piano parts on the track were played by album engineer Tom Allom. [3] Iommi overdubbed flute to the reversed multitrack master which was then re-forwarded and treated with stereo delay. [3]
The Leslie company was sold to CBS in 1965, and the following year, Hammond finally decided to officially support the Leslie speaker. The T-200 spinet, introduced in 1968, was the first Hammond to have an integrated Leslie speaker. [104] Hammond finally purchased Leslie in 1980. Hammond-Suzuki acquired the rights to Leslie in 1992; [2] the ...
A cross-section showing the inner workings of a Leslie speaker cabinet "Tomorrow Never Knows" was the first song attempted during the sessions for Revolver, [40] which started at 8 pm on 6 April 1966, [41] in Studio 3 at EMI Studios (subsequently Abbey Road Studios). [14]
An electric harpsichord similar to the one used for "Because". The song begins with a distinctive electric harpsichord intro played by producer George Martin.The harpsichord is joined by Lennon's guitar (mimicking the harpsichord line) played through a Leslie speaker.
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