"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Actually, I think they used a Thomas on the Lawrence Welk Show.

Eisboch

It was indeed a Thomas, a 3-keyboard model called the "Trianon".

Not to be "picky" but, as a former organ hustler, you should remember that
the lower, upper and "upper-upper" (usually the "solo") keys are referred
to as "manuals", not keyboards.

We had a three-manual Yamaha "Electone" at one time. It's main speaker was
a huge, polysomething creation shaped like the top view of a grand piano.
Yamaha claimed great sound fidelity due to the speaker shape. It had a
smaller secondary speaker, rectangular in shape, that spun on a shaft to
create a Leslie type effect.

Going back to Hammond though .... the tone generator in the originals was a
weird and often problematic mechanical device. It, combined with a rotating
horn Leslie, produced the distinctive Hammond "sound" that most of the
other organ manufacturers tried to emulate. It's really only been since the
maturing of digital sound sampling technology that the organ and keyboard
manufacturers have been able to faithfully reproduce the original Hammond
sound although there are perfectionists that claim it still falls short. To
my non-professional ear, the new Hammond/Suzuki XK3 is about as close as
you can get.

Eisboch