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🧵 … continuing with my Hammonditis… so since this old #HammondOrgan love of mine unveiled again, I couldn't help but ordering a #CrumarD9U.

Which is a 9 #drawbar USB controller unit with a sucky micro USB connector that easily breaks, for ~180€. Quite a lot of cash for 9 stupid faders… but as it seems to me, I need this to go along with my #CrumarMojorDesktop #Clonewheel #Organ. I can live with not having the 2 drawbars for the bass, but I need them for both manuals. Which I am currently playing via an Roland JD-XA and a cheap Thomann/Swissonic keyboard, both with 49 keys.

Turns out not having a waterfall keyboard isn't that much of a problem for me. Hammer action keyboards don't work out, but synth ones do.

I just love tweaking drawbars, playing dissonant intervals and going into distortion, it's like a whole world of sonic opportunities to be discovered.

https://www.musicstore.de/de_DE/EUR/Crumar-D9U/art-KEY0005268-000

Also it makes me listen to oldie goldies from Uriah Heep and Van der Graaf Generator again.

Going live Tuesday next week!

🧵 … what I actually miss from the #Crumar #MojoDesktop is the full set of drawbars.

I had a #hx3organ expander once with a full set of drawbars, and it was a great catastrophe, and discussing with people in a forum made me leave this forum forever, there's nothing worse than white, male, old blues organ players (not even white, male, old blues guitar players). They even rang up the manufacturer and talked to them about me, and posted their phone conversations online… and stalked me elsewhere. Because I had insulted their holy grail of organ piece of crap.

So, the only full drawbar single manual #clonewheel is the #Viscount #LegendOne which looks as appealing as a cheap Italian car, not like an organ such as the also Italian #Crumar stuff.

I had an #OberheimViscount OB3² as my first organ, I had such a ball, but it died too soon.

Finishing my rant with a positive twist, I think I will play some very non-blues organ Tuesday in a week in Tübingen, Southern Germany: https://www.sudhaus-tuebingen.de/programm/details/universum-ors-thomas-mautner-hipp.html

#HammondOrgan

Which organ is the best? Not talking liver vs kidneys here.

#GSIvb3ii runs in #Wine on #Linux, yet I wasn't succesfull yet with the VST version with #Yabridge yet.

But then, there's good old #setBfree by @x42

And honestly, they are quite different, but I am unable to say which is more fun to play. Of course, VB3-II looks a little more like classic organ stuff, not like the 90ties 3d computer game look of setBfree.

Why do I bother at all? Well, basically because I own a #Crumar #MojoDesktop #MIDIexpander… which is nothing more than VB3-II in a box. It also exists as a farily affordable iPad app.

Some years ago I started building my own MIDI drawbar controller for setBfree, but it was just… All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The Crumar Mojo Desktop isn't perfect either, but it has some sweet things such as USB sockets that power USB MIDI keyboards and use their signal - plus 2 regular MIDI INs.

#LinuxAudio #LinuxProAudio #LinuxMusician #HammondOrgan #Cloewheel

Building a Hammond Organ to Understand How They Work

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/08/21/building-a-hammond-organ-to-understand-how-they-work/

Dig that grille cloth #HammondOrgan

New #review today: "As a budding keyboard player in the 70s, I really loved the sound of an overdriven #HammondOrgan I heard in bands like #DeepPurple and #UriahHeep, and it’s obvious that a lot of other people did too — and still do. #Gjenferd is a band from Bergen that’s a shining example of a modern band with that classic sound as their primary influence." #ExposeOnline #PsychedelicRock #ClassicRock #OrganRock http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/gjenferd-black-smoke-rising-2.html

"Out of My Head" is a song by the American band #Fastball from their second studio album, #AllThePainMoneyCanBuy (1998). The song is a #rock ballad with #gospel influence, dominated by #HammondOrgan and piano. Bassist #TonyScalzo is the lead singer on the song, with guitarist Miles Zuniga coming in with harmony during the last chorus. The song was serviced to American rock radio in January 1999 and to #contemporaryHitRadio two months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eboih8s28aQ

Listening to Let Love Rule and it's got me wondering, is Hammond-Organ-Sexual a recognized orientation? Because the Hammond Organ track here is 🔥.

https://musiccloud.io/VEkiV

#HammondOrgan #Music #LennyKravitz

Redstone : 'Demolition Sphere' & 'The Duck's Escape' live at Soundoors, Santorso VI 2026-06 [video 5m05s] #progrock #RedstoneBand #HammondOrgan #GiulioDalPra #MarcoAccadia #MicheleSoppelsa https://youtu.be/h4DoPDCOWt8

Ich habe gerade einen akuten Schub von #Hammonditis und in solchen Fällen lande ich fast immer in meiner späten Teenager-Zeit der 90er, in der ich gerne Rockmusik der 70er gehört hatte.

2001 dann kam mit der Oberheim-Viscount OB3² meine erste eigene Clonewheel-Orgel ins Haus. Ein zwischenzeitlich benutzter HX3 Expander erwies sich als Katastrophe für mich. Heute habe ich eine Crumar Mojo Desktop, bin aber immer noch kein Rock-Keyboarder geworden.

Aber man darf ja wohl noch träumen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGoh3CuUKJw

#UriahHeep #ReturnToFantasy #HammondOrgan #Hammond #HammondOrgel #nielsotunes #music #musik

"Out of My Head" is a song by the American band #Fastball from their second studio album, #AllThePainMoneyCanBuy (1998). The song is a #rock ballad with #gospel influence, dominated by #HammondOrgan and piano. Bassist #TonyScalzo is the lead singer on the song, with guitarist Miles Zuniga coming in with harmony during the last chorus. The song was serviced to American rock radio in January 1999 and to #contemporaryHitRadio two months later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBv0GoI3GGk

Nuevo videoclip de DIRKSCHNEIDER & THE OLD GANG: “Propaganda” ya está disponible y vuelve a poner el foco en el lado más directo de “Babylon”. Dale al play y cuéntanos: ¿es de lo mejor del disco?
#dirkschneider #theoldgang #datog #udodirkschneider #accept #heavymetal #metal #metalvideo #newvideo #babylon #reigningphoenixmusic #germanmetal #classicmetal #tradmetal #heavymetalmusic #metalheads #riff #doblebombo #hammondorgan #propaganda

https://rockandblog.net/dirkschneider-the-old-gang-estrenan-el-video-de-propaganda-tema-clave-de-babylon/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Be (5) Yourself
#HammondB3 #HammondOrgan #MusicVideo #PeerTube
https://v.basspistol.org/w/rjDpAgDXKB4gXp92a6hqD6?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=%40muz4now%40mastodon.world

"On Rotation"
is a completely spontaneous Hammond B3 composition
#HammondB3 #improvisation #HammondOrgan
https://v.basspistol.org/w/wn792ZFEJTiL1fGtgdd2Dc?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=%40muz4now%40mastodon.world

The Hammond organ.

Never made a song worse.
Features in very few bad songs.
Features in a disproportionate amount of the best songs ever.

Discuss if you wish but I will die on this hill if I have to.

#hammondorgan #music #discuss