Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keyboard player Jon Lord performing with British rock group Deep Purple, circa 1975 - Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images We all ...

This goes back to Bach: if you want to change the sound an organ makes, you have to pull on some drawbars. This design didn’t change for 300 years, and in the 20th century with the advent of ...

The sound of the Hammond organ was invented for churches as an alternative to pipe organs. But it's distinctive sound became crucial to the development of a new kind of music: gospel. MARTIN: In the ...

The venerable Hammond B-3 organ has been grinding its way through jazz, as well as gospel, rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll, since 1954. This book, a mix of biography, history and technology, tells ...

Jazz pianist and now organist, Mike LeDonne, at the Hammond B-3. Mike LeDonne playing “Blues for Gene” off I Love Music. If only we could see his footwork! The Hammond B-3 organ was invented in 1935 ...

Musicians who play the Hammond B-3 — the electric organ found most often in jazz, soul and gospel — can forget about traveling light. The instrument weighs in at around 425 pounds and moving it is a ...

The Hammond organ wasn't originally designed for jazz clubs, but for churches that couldn't afford a full-blown pipe organ. Unveiled in 1934 by Laurens Hammond (a gifted engineer who had designed an ...

The Hammond organ is one of a handful of keyboard instruments that never go out of style. Though some think it only makes “one sound,” that sound has countless different hues due to drawbar ...

If you know organs, the sound of the Hammond is instantly recognizable. (SOUNDBITE OF ORGAN MUSIC) MARTIN: In the 80 years since the Hammond organ hit the assembly line, it has made its way into rock, ...

Ninety years after its invention, the giant ‘mechanical wonder’ that suffused rock with majestic awe and feeling is still going strong Neil McCormick has been chief music critic for the Telegraph ...