WEBVTT 1 00:00:18.500 --> 00:00:23.960 Once upon a time, around the turn of the century, Mr. and Mrs. Hammond had a son, Lawrence. 2 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:26.680 And Lawrence was an inventor. 3 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:28.840 He invented all kinds of things. 4 00:00:28.840 --> 00:00:30.700 A lot of them worked very well. 5 00:00:31.420 --> 00:00:32.360 Some of them didn't. 6 00:00:36.780 --> 00:00:40.920 One of those that did work well was a funny little thingamajig that looked like this. 7 00:00:41.440 --> 00:00:42.080 Terrific, what? 8 00:00:43.160 --> 00:00:50.920 He found if he spun it next to a magnetized rod, it made an electric current, which, when amplified through a speaker, made a tone like this. 9 00:00:52.420 --> 00:00:52.820 Hammond! 10 00:00:53.500 --> 00:00:55.780 We're trying to sleep down here! 11 00:00:57.460 --> 00:00:58.400 Beautiful, what? 12 00:00:58.840 --> 00:01:03.180 Anyway, he built a similar thingamajig and it sounded like this. 13 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:09.540 But when he put them together, they produced a third tone. 14 00:01:14.420 --> 00:01:14.780 Hammond! 15 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:16.760 You're going to get yours! 16 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:19.520 There was no stopping him now. 17 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:25.760 He took a piano and threw everything away but the keyboard, which he used to turn them on. 18 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:30.720 Then he invented tone bars to control the thingamajigs. 19 00:01:34.580 --> 00:01:39.800 These amazing little bars blended the tones together to produce all kinds of different sounds. 20 00:01:51.020 --> 00:01:55.300 Lawrence figured he could produce about 253 million different tones. 21 00:01:55.300 --> 00:01:57.060 Without ever going out of tune. 22 00:02:01.300 --> 00:02:04.800 Lawrence had a damn reinvention but he didn't know what to call it. 23 00:02:05.180 --> 00:02:07.980 Hammond, will you quit banging on that organ? 24 00:02:08.760 --> 00:02:11.160 So he called it an organ. 25 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:13.880 Good name, Lawrence. 26 00:02:15.880 --> 00:02:22.180 The electronic organ industry was born and America was waiting with open arms. 27 00:02:23.020 --> 00:02:25.780 Radio was first to pick up on the new sound. 28 00:02:30.300 --> 00:02:34.140 Will Sergeant Prescott find true happiness with Roy the Wonder Dog? 29 00:02:36.440 --> 00:02:39.120 Will Little Nell outrun the choo-choo train? 30 00:02:42.100 --> 00:02:45.400 And what about Uncle Bill's ingrown toenail? 31 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:56.680 Then along came Tico Tico and the Hammond organ became an international star. 32 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:05.400 Pretty soon it was Hammond music to skate by. 33 00:03:09.820 --> 00:03:11.680 Hammond music to dance by. 34 00:03:18.160 --> 00:03:24.340 And Hammond music to amaze your friends by thanks to the world's first spinnet organ. 35 00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:34.600 For people with two left hands Hammond invented the chord organ. 36 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:44.100 Then came another crazy invention nobody thought would last, television. 37 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:50.860 Music 38 00:03:58.200 --> 00:04:04.620 Years later for those who couldn't reach the pedals or shouldn't Hammond introduced the auto chord. 39 00:04:05.260 --> 00:04:11.000 The first non-organ organ with automatic rhythm accompaniment and no pedals. 40 00:04:11.500 --> 00:04:13.520 All you had to do was follow the coloured numbers. 41 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.180 You didn't even have to know the names of the notes. 42 00:04:23.420 --> 00:04:27.480 But every time Hammond added another feature it crowded the circuits. 43 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:29.800 It was getting so there just wasn't any more room. 44 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.300 And then something happened. 45 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:41.280 Five, four, three, two, one. 46 00:04:42.080 --> 00:04:42.740 Shift off! 47 00:04:45.740 --> 00:04:48.520 Rockets to outer space had the same problem. 48 00:04:48.980 --> 00:04:51.680 Not enough inner space for electrical circuits. 49 00:04:52.440 --> 00:04:54.880 So they invented a new way to handle those circuits. 50 00:04:55.060 --> 00:04:58.300 Much better and much tinier than the world had ever known. 51 00:04:58.840 --> 00:04:59.660 And it worked. 52 00:05:04.520 --> 00:05:08.820 They called it large scale integration, whatever that means. 53 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:12.240 To Hammond it meant opportunity. 54 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:15.620 The chance to design their own large scale system. 55 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:16.980 Which they did. 56 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:18.320 How do you do? 57 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:23.080 At Hammond our large scale integration system starts with MDD. 58 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:26.040 Short for multiple derivative divider of course. 59 00:05:26.500 --> 00:05:30.800 It's a mini computer set at a fixed frequency of about four million cycles. 60 00:05:30.840 --> 00:05:33.520 Which it divides into the 12 tones of the top octave. 61 00:05:33.960 --> 00:05:37.200 Each of these tones is fed into a 380 LSI chip. 62 00:05:37.260 --> 00:05:40.480 Where it's divided into octave frequencies and grouped for filtering. 63 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:44.220 The T80 is activated by tone bar as same as before. 64 00:05:44.420 --> 00:05:46.440 To give you the same control of loudness. 65 00:05:46.640 --> 00:05:48.140 Same blend of many, many tones. 66 00:05:48.700 --> 00:05:51.420 It also does the work of hundreds of electrical switches. 67 00:05:51.840 --> 00:05:55.680 Not only turns the notes on and off, does it as slow or fast as you want. 68 00:05:58.900 --> 00:06:00.840 To produce new effects. 69 00:06:02.080 --> 00:06:03.860 LSI chips are much more reliable. 70 00:06:04.180 --> 00:06:06.960 Foolproof actually so that nothing can possibly go wrong. 71 00:06:12.820 --> 00:06:18.300 These advances made Mr Hammond's invention a lot more compact and easier to build. 72 00:06:18.660 --> 00:06:19.980 Like putting blocks together. 73 00:06:22.020 --> 00:06:23.120 But most important. 74 00:06:23.460 --> 00:06:27.900 They opened up for the home organist a whole world of new musical effects. 75 00:06:29.220 --> 00:06:31.640 Way beyond today's state of the art. 76 00:06:34.260 --> 00:06:37.880 All the way to the instruments and sounds of tomorrow. 77 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:11.280 Hammond!