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Pete the bean

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Sounds more like the pitch bend feature they put in the 'New B3' to simulate the start switch drunken organ effect.

 

Turning a tonewheel organ off with a leslie that has separate power sounds similar to that, it doesn't level off and then rise back up like that on power up.

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On a vintage Hammond console, briefly manipulating the Start and Run switches makes the tonewheel motor speed (and so the pitch of the whole organ) rise and fall before returning to normal, with a slightly wobbly drift for a second or so as the synchronous run motor locks back onto the mains frequency.

 

On Hammond digital organs, this effect is simulated (without the wobble) on the New B3 by toggling the "Motor" switch (as in the above video), on the XK3c by using the Bend effect in "Motor" mode, and on later XK and SK models by using the Glide effect.

 

The effect can be heard on a vintage console at the start of Roy Phillips' solo on this track (3:32-3:40).

 

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXe1UyPA-p8

 

View video on YouTube here.

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that's a new b3

 

Hammond B3's have been out of production for decades (the real tonewheel type), which is what he is playing.

 

 

Hammond currently produces an instrument with a name of "New B3". It's a digital model of a tonewheel organ in a wooden case identical to the actual B3. The guy in the video is not playing an original B3. Original B3s are unable to produce the effect at :55

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