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The Leslie speaker is a combined amplifier and loudspeaker that projects the signal from an electric or electronic instrument and modifies the sound by rotating a baffle chamber ("drum") in front of the loudspeakers. A similar effect is provided by a rotating system of horns in front of the treble driver.
Hammond 1980s Flagship 2x61 note manuals, 25 pedals, Tonebars, Multiplex Synthesiser, Easy Play, 9 pistons, 4 speakers plus Leslie. Unlikel the contemporary Romance series, the electronics were mostly discrete transistors apart from the 440 multiplex generator and 434/435 LSI chips in the rhythm and auto-play boards.
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.
The P-series did its job, and was easier to repair than the M-series [2] because each M-series bell had a separate diaphragm, while the P-series horns had the same diaphragm for each bell, a practice Leslie was already using. [3] M-series horns also needed more frequent maintenance. The P-series was Nathan Mfg. Co's equivalent to the Leslie ...
Organ with 2 44 key manuals, 13 bass pedals, built-in spring reverb, Leslie effect, and marimba effect famously known from Baba O'Riley by The Who played by Pete Townshend. [2] The TBO-1 is a slightly upgraded version of the older but otherwise identical Berkshire TBO (1966). Carnival (C500) 1978 Automatic bass, rhythm and accompaniment.
A Lowrey Royale SU500 / Palladium 630 organ (high end model) The Lowrey Holiday Deluxe Model LSL (1961) has a built-in Leslie speaker. [1] Lowrey DSO-1 Heritage Deluxe (c. 1962) Lowrey Genie 44 electronic organ (1970s) Lowrey C500 Celebration electronic organ (1977) Lowrey Journey EY320 Virtual Orchestra (2010s)
A feature not found on the 1979 CX-3 or on the vintage Hammond B-3 is the 2001 CX-3's EX mode, which enables the user to produce new and even unusual synthesized sounds using the tonewheel synthesis engine. The CX-3 does not have an 11-pin Leslie speaker jack, a feature found on vintage Hammond B-3's and on earlier clonewheel organs.
The animation is slightly inaccurate in it's depiction of the Leslie speaker function, in that the animation depicts both the horn (treble) rotors and the woofer drum (bass) rotors rotating in the same direction, while the Wikipedia entry for the similar Sharma speaker notes that in a Leslie, these two components rotate in opposite directions.