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The Hammond clock model "Como" The Hammond Clock Company was founded in 1928 to produce and market clocks that were equipped with Hammond's new motor. The Hammond clock factory manufactured more than 100 different clock models, some simple and cheap, others made from expensive materials such as marble and onyx. [4]
The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert [1] and first manufactured in 1935. [2] Various models were produced, which originally used tonewheels to generate sound via additive synthesis , where component waveform ratios are mixed by sliding switches called drawbars and imitate the pipe organ's registers.
Laurens Hammond was born in Evanston, Illinois, on January 11, 1895 [1] to William Andrew and Idea Louise Strong Hammond. [2] Laurens showed his great technical prowess from an early age. His father, William, took his own life in January 1897, ostensibly due to failure of the First National Bank of Illinois, which he had founded.
The synthesizer is an emulator of the Hammond B3 organ, [2] also including emulators of the Vox continental, Farfisa organ, and Harmonium. The software allows fully customisable MIDI controls. [3] The virtual instrument features a Leslie speaker simulation (with variable settings for rotor speed, acceleration, etc.) on the Hammond model presets.
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From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when John S. Chen joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 42.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Korg CX-3 (1980) According to journalist Gordon Reid, it "came close to emulating the true depth and passion of a vintage Hammond." [1]Transporting the heavy Hammond organ, bass pedalboard (a B-3 organ, bench and pedalboard weighs 425 pounds/193 kg) and Leslie speaker cabinets to performance venues makes it cumbersome for artists to tour with a vintage electromechanical organ.