Organ Morgan

[tommymack.livejournal.com]

Why do so many garage bands feature a Hammond organ (or similar, pedantry fans...)? Surely it would have been a prohibatively expensive and cumbersome instrument for 60s teenagers with cheapo Danelectro guitars made out of plastic?

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AN OLD PEDANT STEPS UP

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i think the selling point of hammonds (and similar, tho if memory serves the device which made them sound so hammondy was patented by the hammond company) was that they were both affordable and portable

certainly no less so than decent backline marshall amps; more so than than an upright piano

Re: AN OLD PEDANT STEPS UP

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"So simple and practical was this new Hammond that a whole market area opened up. With its simplicity and attractive price of only $975, many households began to weigh a Hammond Organ against a piano. It was meant to he played for fun and not as an instrument for producing trained organists."

from a hammond fan-site -- affordability is obv relative there (i think the marshall amps would not be that pricey, though the larger louder models were still basically custom-built till the late 60s) but if the choice was keyb or NO keyb than hammond was the best bet

(seems likely also that many wd be available in good condition second-hand)