Just browsing old Electronics Magazine issues and came across this, very cool.
We'll meet again performed on a Hammond Novachord built in 1939 - YouTube
Hammond Novachord with Sweetwater's Daniel Fisher - YouTube
We'll meet again performed on a Hammond Novachord built in 1939 - YouTube
Hammond Novachord with Sweetwater's Daniel Fisher - YouTube
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Fron the ELECTRONICS article: The Novachord is the first commercial pure electronic musical instrument possessing a keyboard on which chords may be played.
The Theremin has none of these features.
Best regards!
The Theremin has none of these features.
Best regards!
Amazing technical accomplishment that makes everything sound like a Carnival of Souls soundtrack.
Wow only had time to hear one but the Gershwin tune is amazing, sounds like real strings and the variety of timbre is incredible for 1939. Attack, Envelope, Sustain, Decay, Timbre, randomizing the vibratos, etc. they had it all covered. Blows away 1980's digital synth to my ear.
I watched it - the following video was of a player-piano. Wonder why Hammond never put that with his inventions?
Interesting the lengths they used to go to to get "canned" music back then. One would think a "player" version of Hammond's stuff would have been a hit then, particularly if it could change the kind of sound it made on the fly, as encoded in the paper roll. If anyone could have done it, I'd think Hammond would have been the one to pull it off.
Interesting the lengths they used to go to to get "canned" music back then. One would think a "player" version of Hammond's stuff would have been a hit then, particularly if it could change the kind of sound it made on the fly, as encoded in the paper roll. If anyone could have done it, I'd think Hammond would have been the one to pull it off.