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Old 12-18-2012, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Air&Road View Post
It was great music. My mom had a relatively cheap Lowry Chord Organ. It certainly was no Hammond B3 but it was the best I could do, but I taught myself the chorus to Telstar. Great memories.
While I recognize that the Hammond B3 was a great instrument in the 50s and 60s and beyond, the organ snob in me blanches at calling it an "organ". As E.Power Biggs remarked in his album on the Organ, since they lack pipes, they cannot be called organs. Snobbery has its demands, you know.
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