Got my first Hammond and it’s not an organ!

[zvon]

Very happy with this brand new bass melodica. It has 2 built-in microphones, one for the higher notes and one for the lower notes. Balance between them can be adjusted.

I plugged it in a cheap guitar amp, lot of fun and it offers nice variations in tone.

[zvon]

In this video, I have imported a sample from the above Hammond PRO-24B. It was recorded using its built-in mics.

The original sample is F3 (MIDI note 41) but here the root is the Samplewiz 2 default C5 (MIDI note 60). I have not transposed it for this quick experiment.

Sound shaping tools used are the granular engine, forward/backward loop, delay and reverb. Additionally octave and filter cutoff are modulated by the LFOs at 2 slightly different rates, 1.0 s and 893 ms respectively.

[bes_j]

Quite interesting! By the way, I've heard some rumours that there are some tuning issues with this model (A 442 Hz instead of 440, or something like this) - is it true?

[jamcat]

Accordions are typically tuned to 442.

[bes_j]

Accordions are typically tuned to 442.

OK, thanks

[zvon]

Quite interesting! By the way, I've heard some rumours that there are some tuning issues with this model (A 442 Hz instead of 440, or something like this) - is it true?

Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been quite busy. Just check with mine and the two ‘A’s it has are pretty much at 220 Hz and 110 Hz which means that it is tuned at A 440 Hz. This is when blowing steadily and strongly. Of course it’s very easy to modulate the pitch depending on how one blows in a melodica, thus sounding a bit lower or higher. That’s a great part of the charm of melodicas.