Jimmy McGriff

["Mark Longo" <longo@zk3.dec.com>]

        There's a short bit in the February '95 KEYBOARD mag on p. 14.  Jimmy 
uses the Hammond Suzuki XB-3 and generally praises it:

        "Personally I like the XB-3.  I still use my 1958 B-3, but I'll use the 
XB-3 when I get the chance.  It fills a room. It's the closest to the B-3 that 
anyone has done.  It has what an organ player is looking for.

        "The Hammond Suzuki people have the right idea, there's just a few 
things that they have to clean up on it.  At the low end, you can play crystal 
clear chords.  But in the middle, like from middle C up a bit, it gets muddy.  
Then when you get up to the top end, it's clear, but it's hard.  That's what 
rock players want.

        McGriff coaxes an incredible dynamic range out of the XB-3, at times 
backing it off to a mere whisper.  "I can play the XB-3 so quiet and clear, 
whereas with my B-3 I can't."


        Mark

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  Mark Longo                                    Digital Equipment Corp. 
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