The Creation Story of the Hammond Organ: A Presentation and Performance at The Side Door

In the depths of the Great Depression, engineer/inventor/entrepreneur Laurens Hammond’s electric clock company faced bankruptcy. Although not even a musician, he somehow decided to invent an electric organ as an affordable alternative to the massive pipe organ. Using a fortuitous combination of his own and other prior inventions, the first Hammond organ came into being in 1935 and was an immediate success.

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