The B3 weighs 425 pounds and the XB5 weighs 70. market with their new XB5, with digitally sampled, as opposed to synthesized, B3 sound. Some continued to do so even after Hammond Suzuki, which hired DeFrancesco as a consultant, resumed production in Japan and entered the U.S. A diminishing breed of faithful Hammondites went searching for used machines like car buffs seek old Oldsmobiles. Synthesizer technology put the original Hammond Corporation out of business in the early '70s. This summer, McLaughlin will be going out with an organ trio again, featuring the organist Joey DeFrancesco, 22, a young lion who is to a great degree responsible for the new popularity of the sounds, increasingly heard in rock, funk, pop and jazz bands. In 1969, Larry Young was one of the inventors of jazz-rock fusion in the drummer Tony Williams's under-appreciated band 'Lifetime,' with John McLaughlin on electric guitar. The B3 filled a lot of space with a lot of funk. Organ trios with drums and either a saxophone or guitar led by organists like Brother Jack McDuff, Groove Holmes and Jimmy McGriff were big in bars throughout the '50s and '60s. Jimmy Smith combined the churchlike pipe-organ style of Fats Waller with rhythm and blues and bebop in the 1950s. The distinctive, hard, clearly defined tonal qualities of the B3 model, eventually known as the 'jazz organ,' were explored by Milt Buckner and Wild Bill Davis after World War II.

The 'skating rink' sound was also heard in funeral parlors and and churches too small or poor for pipe organs. It was more portable than a pipe organ if not as noble. Sound was generated by rotating steel 'tone wheels,' later replaced by crystal oscillators. Invented by Laurena Hammond in 1934, the first prototype was manufactured in Chicago in 1935. The manufacturer calls it more of an invasion than a renaissance. VST is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.The Hammond organ is back. The Audio Units logo is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Windows Vista and the Windows logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac and the Mac logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. Use of these names does not imply any cooperation or endorsement. Product names are used solely for the purpose of identifying the specific products that were studied during IK Multimedia’s sound model development and for describing certain types of tones produced with IK Multimedia’s digital modeling technology. All other product names and images, trademarks and artists names are the property of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with IK Multimedia. “Hammond” and “Leslie' are trademark property of Hammond Organ/Leslie, wholly-owned brand subsidiaries of Suzuki Musical Instruments Mfg., Ltd.

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