The Dark Story of America’s Instrument Empire: The Hammond Organ Company
Автор: marsol1920
Загружено: 2026-03-07
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Описание: In 1935, a man who couldn't carry a tune launched an instrument that would define the sound of American music. Laurens Hammond built his tonewheel organ from clock motors and a fifteen-dollar piano during the Depression — and within decades, it was in fifty thousand churches, on the greatest jazz and rock recordings ever made, and assembled by thousands of skilled workers across Chicago. Each organ contained thirty thousand hand-assembled pieces and eight and a half miles of wire. Then the transistor arrived, the decisions mounted, and by 1986 the factory on West Diversey Avenue was auctioned off and emptied. The brand was sold to a Japanese harmonica company. Today, the entire music technology industry spends billions trying to digitally recreate what anonymous Chicago workers once built by hand. The answer keeps coming back the same: close, but not the same. This is the story of America's instrument empire — and the people it forgot.
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