Hammond organ

Hammond Organ

A Hammond C-3 organ.
Invented by:	Laurens Hammond
Introduction Date:	1935
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The Hammond organ is a keyboard instrument that looks like a piano. The most common Hammond organs create sound using metal wheels and electricity. It is an electric version of a pipe organ that was invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert. It was first built in 1935. Sliding "drawbars" adjust the type of sound that the organ makes.^[1] The Hammond organ is one of the most successful organs made because almost two million Hammond organs were sold.^[2]

1. ↑ Mark Vail, The Hammond Organ: Beauty in the B (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2002), p. 10
2. ↑ The Organ: An Encyclopedia, eds. Douglas Earl Bush; Richard Kassel (New York; Oxford: Routledge, 2006), p. 164