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This concept allowed one or more keyboards.The Hammond Organ was the first electronic musical instrument to become commercially successful. EBay.Hammond used the Pipe Organ Design concept of Unification in creating the iconic Drawbars of his Electronic Organ. Notify me before the end of the auction.

Many Hammond buyers had apparently not been in the market for an organ at all until the Hammond became available.Advertising that pitted the Hammond against pipe organs stoked outrage among a small but well-organized community of pipe organ performers, designers, and manufacturers. In general, though, congregations owning a Hammond in the 1930s tended to be smaller, poorer, and more rural than those that possessed a pipe organ. Hammond Clock Company, RespondentвЂ™s Exhibits housed in the Hammond Organ Company records (Chicago History Museum).Religious organizations of all types bought Hammonds, from mainstream American Protestants to Catholics, as well as newer denominations like Evangelical churches. Federal Trade Commission v.

In 1936 the Commission issued a formal complaint accusing the company of advertising claims that вЂњunfairly divertedвЂќ trade away from its pipe organ competitors. Although no surviving evidence suggests that the Hammond made a measurable impact on pipe organ sales, men like Barnes and Richards quickly adopted the new electronic instrument as a convenient scapegoat for the industryвЂ™s ills.The Federal Trade Commission Gets InvolvedEight months after the Hammond went on sale, Emerson Richards petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to act against the Hammond Clock Company. When the Hammond arrived on the scene, the pipe organ industry was reeling. Organ business boomed during the silent film era, when nearly every existing pipe organ manufacturer and many new enterprises rushed to meet demand for theater organs, but talkies decimated that market by the early 1930s. In a January 1936 survey printed in the journal, renowned organ designer Emerson Richards derided the HammondвЂ™s sound as вЂњhollow, dry, and dead.вЂќ In his response to the same survey, Chicago pipe organist and historian William Barnes declared that the Hammond would вЂњnot bear direct comparison with the tone of any natural musical instrument.вЂќBarnes and Richards spoke on behalf of an industry that had entered the Great Depression already in turmoil.

Charles Boner took electrical measurements of Hammond and pipe organ tones using an instrument of his own design that identified and measured the intensity of each of the various harmonics present in a single pitch. For another series of вЂњmachineвЂќ tests, physicist Dr. In one challenge, вЂњexpertвЂќ human listeners tried to differentiate between a Hammond and a $75,000 pipe organ in the University of ChicagoвЂ™s Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Together with the prosecuting attorney, the men performed multiple tests and demonstrations. Both Richards and Barnes (quoted above) acted as consultants for the CommissionвЂ™s prosecutor and testified as expert witnesses.

AugustineвЂ™s Episcopal Church. The Commission traveled to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to compare two organs: a famous pipe organ at Boardwalk Hall (designed by Emerson Richards himself) and the only nearby Hammond Organ, located at the African-American St. When the Hammond defense attempted to submit statements of support from church organists across the country, the Commission rejected them on the grounds that вЂњtestimonials are not good evidence.вЂќThe hearingвЂ™s final set of demonstrations starkly illustrate this exclusivity.

But the lived musical life and opinions of this unidentified organist was irrelevant to the men running the hearing. Here was someone who might have provided testimony grounded in lived experience with the new instrument. For a brief moment, then, the hearingвЂ™s participants encountered a musician who actually played the Hammond for church services. Later, Richards and the famous organist Charles Courbin, who was present for the demonstrations, testified on the differences they perceived between the organs.The famous вЂњBoardwalk Hall OrganвЂќ ConsoleAn unnamed figure appears in testimony, who Richards describes only as вЂњa young colored man who sometimes plays the organвЂќ at the church.

Crawley sketches an understanding of the HammondвЂ™s sound in the Black Pentecostal church that is rich with religious and social meaning, an understanding far more complex and profound than the white men involved in the CommissionвЂ™s Hammond hearing were able to imagine.In July of 1938, when five Commissioners met to rule on the hearing, they agreed with the prosecution and its witnesses on nearly all points. Historian Ashon Crawley, who is currently at work on a book on the role of the Hammond in Black Pentecostal churches, notes that the instrumentвЂ™s sound was taken up as the sound of the Black Pentecostal movement itself where it was heard as a вЂњhuman-likeвЂќ voice. His body registered, briefly, in the official record, but his opinionsвЂ”and his nameвЂ”did not.Though this organist and his musical practices failed to register as matters of concern, his presence in the record is silent testimony to the HammondвЂ™s existence and impact outside the context of the CommissionвЂ™s hearing.

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