[BC] Making Beautiful Music

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

The early vacuum-tube Hammond Organs had spinning tone-wheels

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Richard B. Johnson
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> I don't have perfect pitch, but I sure hear the differences.
> 
> I have a friend with perfect pitch (and he is one weird SOB !).
> 
> BOTH of us are bothered by pitch changes, but he is bothered by  
> shifts much more than I.
> 
> We would go to clubs with live bands.  They would tune to the local  
> organ or piano.  It would bother him, and me if it was much of a change.
> 
> The fact is, most bands will tune to the organ, or the piano, because  
> they cannot tune -- pianos especially.  Many "electronic" organs are  
> worse, because they use spinning wheels.
> 
> Pitch changes bother me, but not as much as those with perfect  
> pitch.  Still....
> 
>