GEAR 2021: A new Hammond stage keyboard that features a comprehensive organ section isn’t that surprising - it’s the instrument that the company is famous for, after all - but the SK Pro is noteworthy ...

To the casual observer, the piano and organ are pretty similar. The keys are laid out the same, so the skills required to play each instrument are transferable, right? Not so, and if you don’t believe ...

Porter Warrington Heaps, an organist and composer whose work on the popular Hammond organ transformed a crude-sounding electronic keyboard instrument into one that could approximate the sounds and ...

This goes back to Bach: if you want to change the sound an organ makes, you have to pull on some drawbars. This design didn’t change for 300 years, and in the 20th century with the advent of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keyboard player Jon Lord performing with British rock group Deep Purple, circa 1975 - Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images We all ...

But the powerful, soulful sounds of the B-3 trumped its impracticality. There was no more versatile, expressive electric keyboard instrument made in the 1950s and 60s. And none was more capable of ...