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Reminds me that my vacum cleaner are full, nothing new there…

Mine is in the color Aspen Green, but it might be difficult to se from the picture. And I play it mostly unplugged (as most of my guitars), but for now am happy how it sounds plugged as well, but might offer new wiring and a treble bleed on it some day. I used it more for rock and blues, it are a versatile guitar.

Well, I have GAS now and then, but now I have made a definition on it - K-GAS and G-GAS - it depends if it is related to keyboards or guitars. So I had been watching the Gretsch and the Filtertrons pickups for a while, saw a YouTube video, then several more ( damn YT), looked around for used at sale for a while and ended up with a this 5420 Electromatic with case from 2013 at a fair price. And I love it ! It have already got more playing time the last 3 weeks than all my other guitars together. I will just play through a song or solo before something…. That was 2 hours ago, and I am still sitting here 😝 Then a PRS DGT SE I had been dreaming on for a year showing up in an ad, and I could get the color I wanted at a reasonable price (New), so I told myself if not now, then when ? It is of course something different than the Gretsch, but it feels great to play, and I love the sound in it. Well, I am still a keyboard player, but not dreaming about anything in that division, and haven’t for a while. I could upgrade my NS3HP for a NS4 73HA, and that would make sense, but I finding them to expensive, and really don’t need to - heck, that’s two good guitars 🙃 I am still trying to convince myself that the Osmose are too specific about sound aiming trough (lovely) pads and authentic samples of orchestral stuff, and the editor to difficult to master for me. Marinos excellent demo of one trigger my K-GAS, it would be nice to have that tactic control over the keys I never got from my Seaboard, but I am afraid it will end up as one seldom used in my synth collection. Now, there is that lovely Gretsch Country Gentleman Players Edition ( with open F-holes) in dark dark red or in Walnut stain… but it is almost a NS4 …. Might the force be with me - or the lottery coupon bring me luck …

All ( or most of ) the Mellotron and Chamberlin samples are available for download at Nord, if you have a Nord that can handle the samples. I briefly tried out a couple just for fun. It might work in a studio mix or at home entertainment, more modern samples are working better for live use. And you missed the real instrument with all its personality.

This might have been posted here before. Still an interesting video about how it works.

I have no clue if it is good or bad, but there is this course from Lachy Doly. My own experience with that kinds of one way lessons are that it requires a lot of self discipline ( that I am lacking), so I would love to get some personal lessons instead. https://lachydoley.teachable.com/p/hammond

Interesting tour inside the Sequential HQ:

Well we all love the smell of burnt Hammond oil in the morning, aren’t we ? Or old man’s shoe or something. Some of it are soaking inside the scanner, especially if it is over oiled. Also dripping out and into the isolation on some of the cords. I think some of it might end up on the tonewheels and other rotating gears and will be slung off almost as fog and ending up together with the dust that seems impossible to clean up completely.

When I see those old stacks with a Wurly (or Rhodes) on top of a Hammond, I wondering, didn’t you use the sustain pedal at all, or did you extend the sustain wire ? Back when I had my Wurlitzer, at some time, my father convinced me to take it in to repair, he couldn’t belive all the reeds I broke on gigs. Of course, there was nothing to do, other than to increase the volume. I wished I know more about tube amplifiers back then. Well, the point is that the shop that did the repair, gave me a Pianet in the meantime. I couldn’t deal with the missing sustain pedal and that sweet sound on the Pianet. Today I do not use the sustain pedal as much on my clones, probably because I am more or less using my right foot on the swell pedal for the organ instead. I assume a lot of it is bad habit.

I had a look at the Alto TS408 and 410, and it seems like this new model have EQ you can adjust from an app on your phone. That’s a plus compared to the QSC I have, since I have to crawl around on the floor, trying to adjust that some unintelligent controls, and back to my playing position and back again, and ending up with some of the built in presets 🤨

I seems to remember the ges an des name, but it is nothing I have been using. My father was a clarinet and sax player, and played in a marching band. He was also a instructor for new members, and tried to incorporate some of the theories to me, but I never had the patience to learn scoresheets ( or to play a clarinet or sax ). But I know that many of the scores they used was written in Germany, so I guess that have some influence on the B and H description.

A good question, I think it demand a little about where you are living. I am used to say Ciss, Diss, Fiss, Giss (C#, D#, F#, G#, xx) and the last one I will discuss below, it migh be called a Bb, and seldom a A# or Ass as we would pronounce it. Recently our bass player have started to use some online tab resource, I think it is something like Tabs, Ultimate Guitar or whatever, and he has suddenly starting to say Fb, Gb and so on. I grow up in Norway, and spent nearly 20 year in different bands there, and here we called the key between A and C for H ! The key between them was a small b - and not Bb. I have been told that was from the German sheet system. Almost 30 years ago I moved to Denmark, and here it is called Bb and B. The other notes are still called Fis, Dis or F#, D# and so on, but it are easier to say Fis or F# as it are written than Gb. So I am still strugling a bit when someone call out a tune in B - was it B or Bb he said ….

I have a pair of the Adam A7V ( it’s in a higher price range) and added a Sub, but it is way too much for my little home studio. The A7’s alone is perfect both for my keys and for mixing, and with a nice bottom. Perhaps you can find a used pair, they released an updated version of them last year, and some might upgrade. I have been thinking on the cheaper Iloud monitors for my living room setup- my Hammond/Leslie with a synth on top - only played on living room volume.