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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

 

Mark my words

I recently completed an assignment on Leslie speakers (shown on the left), the amplifier used hand in hand with the Hammond organ in jazz, soul, R&B (the real one) and sometimes appropriated for novel purposes by guitarists. To put it simply, it consists of a rotating sound source to add a "swooshing" effect (for lack of a more descriptive term) to the input signal. Some of my favourite players of the Hammond are shown below:



















Jimmy Smith:



Jimmy McGriff:



Booker T and the MGs:










The whole point of this post? Apart from the musical content, it is to showcase the exquisite sense of humour exhibited by my British lecturer in marking my assignment. Behold.









drumm

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