and although the very first Hammond organ — the Model A — appeared in 1934, the instrument that everyone associates with the familiar, nay revered, 'Hammond Sound' is the infamous B3, introduced 20 years later
Clickhereto check out an archive of the program, while a playlist ishere. The Hammond organ first appeared in 1935 and although many models have been produced, it’s the B-3 — introduced by Laurens Hammond in 1939 — which remains the most popular. The B-3 features two, 61-note keyboa...
had two real vacuum tubes in the outputs stage to accompany it’s Tube Overdrive knob, but again I never found the effect all that useful to be honest. And my current organ, theHammond SK2, also has a dedicated knob for overdrive with four digital models of distortion available, my favo...