"The Piano" Drawbar Setting For Hammond Organ 

It was literally yesterday I was stuck with my Hammond XK-5 wishing there was a way to get a pinao sound!! This is so useful!! Thank you!

So funny, I stumbled on this sound just a day before your post. I have built in reverb on my B3. I went to just drawbar 4 with percussion on and I was like wow that’s kinda like an electric piano and started playing your “expensive” sus2 piano lick from a few posts prior.

Riders on the Storm!!! Sounds beautiful on that organ

I was trying this setting yesterday on B3-X (software emulation) but without the drawbars.. pretty nice sound.. i added a tube screamer for more volume & some girth, and then a spring reverb.. can't wait to try with the drawbar too..

OMG Mike! I've heard about this for years and thought it was urban legend. Got to try this right now on B3 and XK5! Many thanks!

Pipe organs are able to simulate many instruments, especially wind instruments; stringed instruments were more difficult but also attempted. Theatre organs added percussion, and much more, including brand new pipe sounds, vibrato, and more Long before the invention of the Hammond / tonewheel organ. 😎

Thank you Mike. I'm gonna put this one the the tool box. Can't wait to try this when I get home today!

Look up Novachord which essentially is a polyphonic synthesizer by Hammond from late 30’s. It’s right down the alley of this post

Thanks very much Mike ! This is what I was lookin’ for, for some songs where they use this. I tried different settings for some songs. Now I only hope that my L-100 comes close, Because it has a different percussion as a B3. 😊 Thanks anyway 👍🏼

Another great tip. Thanks.

Hey, I finally tried it. I have to say it is a weird feeling. For a second you feel like your playing a piano and the the next you don't. Cool trick! I gonna definitely use it a bit. Keep the videos coming!👍

I’ve never done this with slow percussion, but with percussion on fast it gives somewhat of a marimba quality, even without drawbars. There’s a background part in the verses of Peter Gabriel’s In Your Eyes where it does this.

An underwater piano from outer space!

Got to try on my Mojo, thanks

Very cool!

This is great info!

Back before synths I was always so frustrated trying to use those sexy gentle setting and fight for volume against the drums and guitars.

even better on a stock 55 b3 or 58 with percussion drop mod 😎👍

Danke!

Even with the decay on full length in my Mojo editor, my Mojo61 can't decay percussion long enough to get this effect :(

Does Diana Ross' "My Old Piano" feature this trick? There's a prominent piano/percussion sound that I could never figure out.

So a drawbar means sustain and no drawbar means much less sustain?

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Man- if you think that sounds like a piano - - - You need to get an EAR TUNE-UP ......

Still produces sine waves which a piano doesn‘t. And it‘s paraphonic whereas a piano is fully polyphonic.

Nice sound, but it does not "actually sound like a piano", still is clearly an organ.