Re: B-3 weight; a white lie about 'numbers'

[Steve Sorenson <104045.3454@compuserve.com>]

goffprof@aol.com wrote:

>Regarding the unbelievable insuation that HAMMOND could 'fib' about
>anything--- C'mon .... everybody knows that there *really* are 253 million
>bazillion trillion DB combinations among 9 DB's and *none* of them sounds
>anything like the others....... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
>(Sal - you should post the ad literature listing the names!  :-) 

In his organ stops book, Mr. Stevens Irwin comes up with the following (only a
tiny, tiny bit of his whole list):

Larigot 1 1/3'                           000000060
Open Quint 5 1/3'                   070030010
Prestant 8'                               007766332
Prinzipal 8'                               008876540
Quint 5 1/3'                              070000000
Heckelphone 8'                      004554430
Tuba d'Amore 8'                     004553332
Mellophone 8'                         005776540

etc.

Only one of many possible drawbar settings is included for each of the names
above (Irwin must have spent years matching names to drawbar settings, after
which I believe he went berserk and was confined to an institution).

The Mellophone is actually the original sound imitated by the Mellotron, and
each Mellotron sound can be achieved simply by setting one of the 13 Mellophone
drawbar combinations.  No messy tape loops!

The Heckelphone always comes in handy at political campaign rallies and sporting
events, and, really, it's so much easier and elegant to use the Tuba d'Amore
setting to get your wife in the mood than to stagger around with a real tuba.  

I think I'll stop now.  Too much coffee to early in the morning.

Steve