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ORGAN Voice Section
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4. Press the PAGE " " button once. The Information Center Display should now look like this:
The box to the right of "TYPE" should be highlighted.
NOTE: The four Organ Types A-100, B-3, C-3, and Mellow replicate the sounds of various vintage
Hammond Organs. For a more complete explanation of these Organ Types consult page 151.
You can now turn the VALUE knob to select what type of organ sound will be associated with the
Drawbars. The first four Drawbar Organ Types are traditional vintage Hammond settings. However,
the last four Organ Types allow you to use the Drawbars to register other types of organ sounds.
The Organ Types are explained starting below.
There are approximately 253,000,000 possible sound combinations that can be produced by these
Drawbars. Each Drawbar consists of sine waves of different pitches. The illustration below shows how
each Drawbar relates to the keyboard when middle "C" is depressed.
Each Drawbar is marked with a number followed by a footage mark. For example, the first white Drawbar
is marked "8'." This is pipe organ terminology indicating that the pipe used to produce the lowest note
on the keyboard on a pipe organ is actually eight feet long. The numbers from "1" to "8" on each Drawbar
represent degrees of loudness - number 1 being the softest, and number 8 being the loudest.
The following pages explain characteristics of the Drawbars which are common to traditional uses of
Drawbars in vintage Hammond Organs which have Drawbars.
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