We'll meet again played on Hammond Novachord from 1939

Bert van den Brink playing on the Hammond Novachord, an instrument designed by Hammond and produced for only a few years. This instrument is the ancester of the synthesizer with incredible techneeks, perfectionism all coming from this visionary Laurence Hammond. When Vera Lynn was accompanied on this instrument it must have been like "science fiction!"

[@louploch3992]

I learn something new everyday, the Hammond Novachord is a keyboard that i'm sure many have never heard of. Looks like a tech's nigntmare but it sure had a unique sound for 1939.

[@r1friends344]

Sir It is not a keyboared As it is a type of Hammond organ Witch is also an electric type of organ And I can understand you think it's a keyboared

[@iansragingbileduct]

Sounds like sitting in an old silent film theater. Very ethereal sound.

[@jameslovelady7751]

I have one 78rpm record featuring the Novachord. It had more vacuum tubes than an RCA color TV.

[@lundsweden]

1939- this is the latest in technology! 2024- this thing looks unbelievably steampunk!

[@BruceTheSillyGoose]

talented man

[@hudsondumont5233]

Magnífico, obrigado 🎉🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶👍

[@TheSafthecktor]

i was born in the wrong time. this is beautiful

[@fg87fgd]

...and the user interface was definitely not made for the blind. Brave work, Bert.

[@HammondDirk]

RIP Vera

[@patricksaxon3983]

I wonder what it would sound like going through a Leslie speaker? I bet it is hard to maint being very old and difficulties replacing those old vaccum diode tubes.

[@toddwitheril473]

I wonder if this is the first time tone wheels were used?

[@HammondDirk]

This is not a tone wheel organ, but a purely electronic musical instrument! Based on 12 oscillators that create all the tones in one octave, and divided down to create all the octaves. It resembles actually more the way a combo organ from the late '60s and early '70s work, but the filtering is much more elaborate, more like that of an analog synthesiser. And of course, everything is made with vacuum tubes. The rattling you here are actually the vibrato oscillators, the only mechanical part in the sound production. Also here, a lot of over engineering: to make the vibrato sound more lively, different tones use different vibrato oscillators. The tone wheel organ actually predates is by a couple of years.

[@patricksaxon3983]

The sounds are generated by electronic oscillators, not tone wheels. The tone wheel generator was first developed in 1935, by Hammond organ company, the most popular mechanical tone generator.

[@NJPurling]

Imagine some of Jean-Michelle Jarre's famous music played on this instrument. The worlds first synthesizer. It's older than Mr Jarre by a decade!

[@patricksaxon3983]

It was the very first oscillator tone generator synthesizer, but the world's first synthesizer really was the invention of the Hammond organ in 1935, using drawbars to create the sounds.

[@shandera22]

Anyone here for cause of gravity falls

[@maxbennedbk7085]

lil bit, wouldve been fun to see Cipher playin one of theese