The Hammond organ is an
electric organ which was designed and built by
Laurens Hammond in 1934. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to
churches as a lower-cost alternative to the
pipe organ, it came to be used for
jazz,
blues, and then to a greater extent in
rock music (in the 1960s and 1970s) and
gospel music. In the 1990s and 2000s, a variety of digital
clonewheel organs and emulation devices became available, which reproduce the Hammond sound. Despite the much lower cost and increased reliability of these electronic clones, there is still a strong interest in vintage Hammond organs. Although the last electromechanical Hammond organ came off the assembly line in the mid-1970s, thousands are still in daily use.
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