Drawbars & Percussion
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Tone Families By Shape
Regardless of the size of a pipe organ or its number of stops, all of its voices are related to four basic families of tone. The
four basic families - Flute, Reed, String and Diapason - can be quickly set up on the Drawbars by relating a pattern or shape
to each family.
These are the generalities which apply to the tonal resources of the organ, and in themselves produce pleasant and usable
effects. However, real beauty of tone is secured in two ways. The first way is to use registrations which have been devised
by organists. The second way, and eventually the one that best expresses your own feeling for the music, is to create your
own tonal effects, experimenting with and perfecting tones which you use to play your favorite selections.
The Hammond Organ Drawbars allow you not only to set up any tonal effect you want, but also to make many fine variations
of the tone. Only with the Hammond Drawbars can you play exactly the shade of tone you want for every selection and,
perhaps even more important, for every size and type of room in which you play.
With the Hammond Organ Drawbars, a touch of a finger is all that is needed to make the tone quality softer or more brilliant,
richer in one harmonic or another.
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