tags: mus-407 early-electroacoustic-instruments

Hammond Organ

The Hammond Organ is an electronic instrument invented by Laurens Hamond in Chicago in 1935.

intended as household organ substitute, not to create novel new sounds
operation via tonewheels, essentially small-scale [telharmonium] with advantage of [vacuum tube] amplifiers
distinctive set of [timbral] controls
designed to be user-friendly