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          Drawbars & Percussion

14

Keyboard Selection

Use the PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN Touch Button to scroll 

up

 through the Keyboard choices.  You can select “L&U”

“Lower and Upper) or “PED” (Pedal)  The current choice will blink.

The following paragraphs will show how to change the Drawbar parameters for “L&U” (Lower and Upper Manuals)

DRAWBAR Edit Menu L&U - Page 1

If you followed the instructions on the previous page, Page 1 of the DRAWBAR Edit Menu displays.  The legend
underneath “L&U” should now be blinking.

Drawbar Voice Mode

This Advanced Feature allows you to change the overall sound of the Drawbars.  You can select, “BType1", which
reproduces the sound of the B-3 tone-wheel generator, “BType2,” which is similar to BType1, but with more leakage noise
and “flutter,” “Mellow,” which produces a very pure sine-wave tone quality, “Vx,” which reproduces the sound of a vintage
British combo organ, “Farf,” which reproduces the sound of a vintage Italian combo organ, or “Pipe,” which produces
authentic pipe organ tones.

Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the 

right

 to go 

forward

 through the choices.

Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the 

left

 to go 

backward

 through the choices.

NOTE:  

The first three Drawbar Voice Modes are traditional Tone Wheel settings.  You can customize each one

of these Drawbar Voice Modes to your liking.  This is explained in the 

CUSTOM TONE WHEEL

 section of this

Guide.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  

The “Vx.” “Farf.” and “Pipe” Voice Modes change the operation of the Drawbars from

the traditional Hammond Harmonic Drawbar functions.  This is explained starting on page 40 of this Guide.

Summary of Contents for Sk-series

Page 1: ... 73 88 DRAWBARS PERCUSSION ...

Page 2: ......

Page 3: ...roduced by these Drawbars Each Drawbar consists of sine waves of different pitches The illustration below shows how each Drawbar relates to the keyboard when middle C is pressed Each Drawbar is marked with a number followed by a footage mark For example the first white Drawbar is marked 8 This is pipe organ terminology indicating that the pipe used to produce the lowest note on the keyboard on a p...

Page 4: ...N BRILLIANCE TRY THIS 1 Make sure all Drawbars are IN off 2 Hold down a C chord starting with E above middle C E G C notes with your right hand on the manual or the Upper Manual of the SK 2 3 Starting with the first white Drawbar pull out and push in each of the Foundation Drawbars one group at a time until you have a sound that you like 4 While still holding the C chord down pull each of the brow...

Page 5: ...As you add each Drawbar you will hear the addition of the same note an octave higher in each case Black Drawbars The Black Drawbars on the Hammond Organ represent the dissonant discordant harmonics which are also necessary in building rich tone colors The mellowness of a horn the pungency of strings and the brilliance of reed voices owe much of their character to the presence of these harmonics in...

Page 6: ...rown Drawbar is the sub octave of the third harmonic Both of these Drawbars are used to add depth and richness to many combinations They also increase the range of the manual by one octave since a solo registration of the 8 foot or normal pitch can be set up using the first brown Drawbar as the fundamental and played one octave higher TRY THIS 1 Make sure all Drawbars are IN off 2 Hold down middle...

Page 7: ...ons which have been devised by organists The second way and eventually the one that best expresses your own feeling for the music is to create your own tonal effects experimenting with and perfecting tones which you use to play your favorite selections The Hammond Organ Drawbars allow you not only to set up any tonal effect you want but also to make many fine variations of the tone Only with the H...

Page 8: ...ia 8 Tibia 4 Tibia Theater 16 W ooden Open Flute 8 00 8460 000 00 3220 000 00 8600 000 80 8605 002 00 3831 000 00 0006 003 00 5020 000 00 7030 000 00 0700 030 80 8605 004 00 8840 000 Reed family triangle pattern Reed Tones Bassoon 16 Clarinet 8 English Horn 8 Flugel Horn 8 French Horn Kinura 8 Oboe 8 Trombone 8 Trumpet 8 Tuba Sonora 8 Vox Humana 8 44 7000 000 00 6070 540 00 3682 210 00 5777 530 00...

Page 9: ...od Diapason 8 00 8874 210 00 8686 310 00 7785 321 00 4434 210 85 8524 100 00 8877 760 00 0606 045 00 8887 480 01 8866 430 01 8855 331 00 7754 321 String family bow pattern String Tones Cello 8 Dulciana 8 Gamba 8 I Gemshorn 8 Orchestral String 8 Salicional 8 Solo Viola 8 Solo Violin 8 Viola da Gamba 8 Violina 4 Violone 16 00 3564 534 00 7770 000 00 3484 443 00 4741 321 00 1464 321 00 2453 321 00 24...

Page 10: ...onics five octaves apart gives a beautiful tone color for playing slower songs or ballads A JAZZ ORGAN TONE 88 8000 008 There are many hundreds of Drawbar combination which are not imitative of any instrument but which are immediately recognized as Hammond Sounds The above combination is an example The basic Hammond Organ jazz sound is gotten with the first three Drawbars such as 88 8000 000 When ...

Page 11: ...bar Registrations Sometimes making dramatic changes of tone color in registration can be very effective in a musical presentation However some selections may require changes of tone that are very contrasty in character and occasionally they come at a point in the music where it will difficult to make them and continue to play without a break in your music In this case it is recommended that you fi...

Page 12: ...mples make sure none of the EXTRA VOICE ALLOCATE Touch Tabs UPPER LOWER and SOLO are ON TRY THIS 1 Touch the UPPER Touch Tab in the DRAWBAR SELECT Touch Tab section to turn it ON red LED lit 2 Create a Drawbar registration for example 88 8800 008 You can confirm the registration by consulting the Information Center Display NOTE To see the Drawbar registration displayed numerically touch the PLAY T...

Page 13: ...0 8400 000 You can confirm the registration by consulting the Information Center Display Sk 1 Sk1 73 Sk1 88 3 Touch the SPLIT Touch Button to turn the SPLIT feature ON and play some notes on the manual to the left of the split point You will hear the notes play with the Drawbar registration you just set up Sk 2 3 Play some notes on the Lower Manual You will hear the notes play with the Drawbar reg...

Page 14: ...ones to the Lower Manual and play some notes on the left end of the Lower Manual You will now hear the notes play with Pedal tones added Ë Sk1 Sk1 73 Sk1 88 Please Read Drawbar parameter changes for the Lower Manual L will not be heard unless the SPLIT Touch Tab is ON and notes are played below the Split point Ë All Sk series instruments Please Read On ALL Sk series instruments Drawbar parameter c...

Page 15: ...yed in the extreme upper left corner of the Information Center Display You will also notice that the word DRAWBAR is blinking 2 Touch the ENTER Touch Button once Accessing the DRAWBAR Edit Menu using a Shortcut Touch the UPPER and LOWER DRAWBAR SELECT Touch Tabs together You are now in the DRAWBAR Edit Menu You may now use the PAGE NAVIGATION Touch Buttons in conjunction with the VALUE Rotary Cont...

Page 16: ...e2 which is similar to BType1 but with more leakage noise and flutter Mellow which produces a very pure sine wave tone quality Vx which reproduces the sound of a vintage British combo organ Farf which reproduces the sound of a vintage Italian combo organ or Pipe which produces authentic pipe organ tones Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the right to go forward through the choices Turn the VALUE Rot...

Page 17: ...organs From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The number underneath the letters AT should now be blinking Attack Key Click This Advanced Feature allows you to change the amount of Attack Key Click or the click that is heard when a note is first played Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the right to increase the amount of Attack Key Click Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the ...

Page 18: ...ne quality of both the Attack and Release Key Click tones Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the right to make the Key Click brighter Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the left to make the Key Click mellower NOTE LPF is an abbreviation for Low Pass Filter or a circuit which allows only low frequencies to pass through The more filtering is applied the duller the sound while less filtering will result ...

Page 19: ...rked 1 continues to play up the manual to the next to highest C 5C on the manual On a B 3 the lowest note produced by the Sub Fundamental Drawbar is the 2nd C 2C from the left end of the manual while the highest note that can be played by the 8th harmonic Drawbar is the 4th F from the left end of the manual The lower and higher keys on the manual Fold Back in that they repeat the pitches played by...

Page 20: ...should now be blinking Drawbar Volume This Advanced Feature allows you to adjust the level of the entire Drawbar section of the instrument Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the right to increase the overall volume of the Drawbar tones Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the left to decrease the overall volume of the Drawbar tones ...

Page 21: ...l Octave down From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The number underneath the letters LO should now be blinking Drawbar Zone Lower Limit Upper Manual This AdvancedFeature allows you to set the lowest note the Upper Manual Drawbars will play The data chart below shows the options you may select for your particular Sk series instrument DRAWBAR ZONE Lower Limit Options Upper...

Page 22: ... the number and move the lower limit farther to the left NOTE The Upper Limit number can not be lower than the Lower Limit number DRAWBAR Edit Menu L U Page 4 LOWER From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once Page 3 of the DRAWBAR Edit Menu should now display The Information Center Display should now look like this Drawbar Octave Lower This Advanced Feature allows you to select...

Page 23: ... move the lower limit farther to the left NOTE The Upper Limit number can not be lower than the Lower Limit number From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The number underneath the letters HI should now be blinking Drawbar Zone Upper Limit Lower Manual This Advanced Feature allows you tosetthe lowest note the Lower Manual Drawbars will play The data chart below shows the op...

Page 24: ...RAWBAR should now be blinking 2 Touch the ENTER Touch Button once The Information Center Display should now look like this You are now in the DRAWBAR Edit Menu 3 Now touch the PAGE UP Touch Button once The Information Center Display should now look like this You may now use the PAGE NAVIGATION Touch Buttons in conjunction with the VALUE Rotary Control to make changes to the characteristics of the ...

Page 25: ... Synth2 A dull square wave or clarinet type sound Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to select the Pedal Voicing that you prefer DRAWBAR Edit Menu PEDAL Page 1 Pedal Attack Key Click From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The words just underneath the word ATTACK should now be blinking This Advanced Feature allows you to change the type of Attack for the Pedal tones that you pr...

Page 26: ...shortest to 5 longest Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to select the Pedal Decay amount that you prefer From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The legend just underneath the word SUS should now be blinking Pedal Sustain This Advanced Feature allows you to change the amount of Pedal Sustain or length of time the Pedal note will continue to sound after the pedal is released You...

Page 27: ...prefer DRAWBAR Edit Menu PEDAL Page 3 From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once Page 3 of the DRAWBAR PEDAL Edit Menu should now display The legend just underneath the word MODE should now be blinking Pedal Mode Polyphony This Advanced Feature allows you to select the playing mode of the Pedals The data chart below shows the options you may select Pedal Mode Options Descripti...

Page 28: ... the Octave range in which the Pedal Drawbars will play The data chart below shows the options you may select Octave Options Description Function 2 The sound is two octaves below the regular pitch 1 The sound is one octave below the regular pitch 0 The sound is at normal pitch 1 The sound is one octave above the regular pitch 2 The sound is two octaves above the regular pitch Turn the VALUE Rotary...

Page 29: ...ove the lower limit farther to the left NOTE The Upper Limit number can not be lower than the Lower Limit number From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The number underneath the letters HI should now be blinking Drawbar Zone Upper Limit Pedals This Advanced Feature allows you to set the lowest note the Pedal Drawbars will play The data chart below shows the options you may...

Page 30: ... example 440 teeth pass the magnet each second 440 electrical impulses will be generated which when converted into sound with a speaker will sound the note A 440 After going through a number of other processes the electrical impulses finally reach the amplifier which strengthens them enough to drive a speaker system which in turn converts the electrical signal into audible tone It is this audible ...

Page 31: ...mmonds were manufactured the superiority or inferiority of types of materials for certain components etc Some of these differences do exist but as noted above they are more likely to be the result of factors not necessarily having anything to do with the age of the instrument Many characteristics of the Hammond Organ especially as heard in much jazz and rock music have to do with the overall condi...

Page 32: ...U EXIT Touch Button once The Information Center Display should now look like this The word DRAWBAR should now be blinking 2 From the A Screen touch the PAGE UP Touch Button once The Information Center Display should look like this for the B Screen of the Menu Mode The word CUST TW should now be blinking 3 Touch the ENTER Touch Button once The Information Center Display should now look like this Yo...

Page 33: ...Contains moderate motor hum and leakage noise 80 s Clean Based upon a very clean sounding B 3 The motor hum or leakage noise has been removed the vibration caused by the wow flutter of the motor remains Noisy Similar to Real B 3 but with more motor hum and leakage noise Noisy 60 Similar to Noisy but with more leakage noise There are also four choices of sound for the Mellow setting Full Flats Pure...

Page 34: ...made the rest of your parameter settings and are satisfied with the results You should have also saved your settings NOTE Naming a Custom Tone Wheel is covered in more detail on page 39 Use the PAGE LEFT and PAGE RIGHT Select Touch Buttons to select the character to be edited Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the right to scroll forward through the characters Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the le...

Page 35: ...previously each tone has a magnetized rod associated with it When the tone wheels rotate a very small electrical current is generated in the coil each time a high spot passes the magnet The strength of the current determines the loudness of the resulting musical note At the Hammond tone wheel factory the distance of each magnet to each tone wheel as well as the number of windings for each coil was...

Page 36: ...C through 96 8B Simply turn the control until you find the number you want Using the Drawbars and Keyboard to select Tone Wheels If you want to find a certain Tone Wheel quickly you can use the Drawbars and the playing keys to select it Each individual Drawbar will play a different portion ofthe Tone Wheels The data chart below shows how the Tone Wheels are allocated to each Drawbar Drawbar Voice ...

Page 37: ...the note name When you pull out a Drawbar without touching any playing keys the lowest note represented by that Drawbar will display Now suppose you want to select a specific Tone Wheel to edit To do this 4 Press and hold a note on the manual NOTE If you have the SK 2 press and hold a note on the Upper Manual 5 While holding down a key move a Drawbar for example the first black 2 b Drawbar The num...

Page 38: ... Control to the left to increase the level of the selected Tone Wheel From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The legend underneath the word LPF should be blinking LPF Low Pass Filter This Advanced Feature allows you to control the high frequency content including Leakage Noise of the selected Tone Wheel You can select from 0 minimum number of high frequencies and only the ...

Page 39: ...equencies From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The legend underneath the word HPF should be blinking HPF High Pass Filter This Advanced Feature allows you to adjust the level of the High Pass Filter HPF You can select from 0 low frequencies at their lowest level through 127 low frequencies at their highest level Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the right to boost the low...

Page 40: ...can create a Custom Tone Wheel without disturbing any of the preprogrammed Custom Tone Wheels If on the other hand you want to make changes or modifications to the preset Custom Tone Wheels select one of them before proceeding to step 3 below 3 Make whatever changes you want to the editable parameters Level Resonance etc 4 After you have made all your edits and you have the sound you want Touch an...

Page 41: ...through the characters Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the left to scroll backward through the characters The available characters include Punctuation Marks space Numeric Characters 0 9 Upper case Letters A Z and Lower case Letters a z 4 After you have finished editing Touch and Release the RECORD Touch Button The Information Center Display should now look similar to this 5 If you DO NOT wish to ...

Page 42: ...ens touch the MENU EXIT Touch Button once The Information Center Display should now look like this The word DRAWBAR should now be blinking 2 Touch the ENTER Touch Button once You will then be in the DRAWBAR Edit Menu and the Information Center Display should now look like this Notice that the legend just underneath L U is blinking You can now turn the VALUE Rotary Control to select what type of or...

Page 43: ...mode had drawbar type controls but they functioned differently from Hammond Harmonic Drawbars Organ The first four Drawbars control individual pitches while the next three are Mixture Drawbars which cause multiple pitches to sound II III and IV refer to the number of pitches represented by that Drawbar The last two Drawbars control the type of tone produced by the first seven Drawbars The eighth D...

Page 44: ...ing You may now use the Drawbars to control vintage combo organ tones The figure below shows how the Drawbars are allocated in Farf mode The above configuration follows the layout of the Combo Compact series of combo organ which used rocker type tilt tablets rather than Drawbars to turn voices on and off On the Sk series instruments the Drawbars are used to control the same sounds To replicate the...

Page 45: ...until the Information Center Display shows the following You may now use the Drawbars to control the voices of a classical pipe organ The figure below shows how the Drawbars are allocated in Pipe mode IMPORTANT NOTE When Pipe mode is activated the Drawbars will function similar to drawstops on a traditional pipe organ pulling a Drawbar out will turn the associated Pipe Voice ON while pushing the D...

Page 46: ...ens touch the MENU EXIT Touch Button once The Information Center Display should now look like this The word DRAWBAR should now be blinking 2 From the A Screen touch the PAGE UP Touch Button five times The Information Center Display should look like this for the B Screen of the Menu Mode The word PIPE should now be blinking 3 Touch the ENTER Touch Button once The Information Center Display should n...

Page 47: ...st8 Octave 4 Octave 4 Flute Dolce 4 FlDolce4 Flute 2 Flute 2 Mixture 3 ranks Mixt III Hautbois 8 Hautboi8 LOWER Principal 16 Princi16 Principal 8 Princi 8 Melodia 8 Melodia8 Rohr Flute 8 RohrFl 8 Prestant 4 Prestnt4 Flute 4 Flute 4 Super Octave 2 SupOct 2 Mixture 4 ranks Mixt IV Trompette 8 Trompet8 PEDAL Sub Bass 16 Bourdon 8 Bass16 8 Principal Chorus 8 Mixture IV The figure below shows how the P...

Page 48: ...ans that you can now edit the parameters for the Open Diapason 8 pipe voice 3 Now touch the PAGE UP Touch Button repeatedly until the Information Center Display looks similar to this Now you will see LOWER 2 on the top line of the Information Center Display and Princi16 on the lower line directly below it This means that you can now edit the parameters for the Principal 16 pipe voice 4 Now touch t...

Page 49: ... the selected Pipe Voice CHIFF Allows you to set the amount of Chiff or attack for the selected Pipe Voice CUTOFF Allows you to set the brightness of the selected Pipe Voice by setting its Filter Cutoff point PAN L R Allows you to set the directionality of the selected Pipe Voice IMAGING Allows you to simulate pipe chest configurations for the selected Pipe Voice The following pages give a more de...

Page 50: ... now look like this The word DRAWBAR should now be blinking 2 From the A Screen touch the PAGE UP Touch Button five times The Information Center Display should look like this for the F Screen of the Menu Mode The word PIPE should now be blinking 3 Touch the ENTER Touch Button The Information Center Display should now look like this You are now in the PIPE Edit Menu ...

Page 51: ...the volume of the selected Pipe Voice Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the left to decrease the volume of the selected Pipe Voice From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The legend below the word DETN Detune should now be blinking Pipe Voice Detune This Advanced Feature allows you to detune each individual Pipe Voice You can select from Select the Detune setting you want by...

Page 52: ... describe the sound The amount of chiff can vary depending on the maker and the effect desired some organ builders voice the flue pipes with little or no chiff while others perhaps influenced by the neo baroque school of organ building deliberately strive to include the chiff effect Select the Chiff setting you want by doing the following Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the right to add more Chif...

Page 53: ...ter From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The legend below the word IMG Image should now be blinking Pipe Voice Imaging This Advanced Feature allows you to simulate different arrangements of pipes What Is Pipe Imaging The pipes of a pipe organ are arranged into sets called ranks Each ranks consists of pipes representing a specific sound on the organ Open Diapason Trompett...

Page 54: ...alternate between left and right Inverted Pyramid when notes are played chromatically going up on the keyboard the notes start at one end and alternate between left and right until they meet in the center NOTE The above two pipe placement schemes are sometimes referred to as C C placement due to chromatic notes being separated The Sk series instruments give you five different Pipe Imaging choices ...

Page 55: ...y detached notes SECOND HARMONIC The tone for this harmonic is the same as the sound derived from the 4 Drawbar Combining this Percussion tone with the Drawbars will produce bright and clear sounds THIRD HARMONIC This harmonic tone is the same one produced by the 2 2 3 Drawbar Combining this Percussion tone with the Drawbars will produce powerful and heavy sounds NOTE By turning both the SECOND an...

Page 56: ...ENU Mode will now display You will now see CUST TW in the upper left corner of the Information Center Display and it will be blinking 3 Touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button The word PERCUSS will now blink 4 Touch the ENTER Touch Button Accessing the PERCUSSION Edit Menu Using the Shortcut Touch and hold any of the four PERCUSSION Touch Tabs After approximately 1 second you will see the screen shown b...

Page 57: ... to increase the level Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to the left to decrease the level Percussion Edit Page 2 Percussion Decay From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once Page 2 of the Percussion Edit Menu should now display The number underneath the word SLOW should now be blinking This Advanced Feature allows you to set the overall decay the rate at which the Percussion tone ...

Page 58: ...icates the Percussion function on the X 66 Concorde and later model Hammond Organs Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to turn Percussion Touch ON or OFF Percussion Velocity Sensitivity From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The letters underneath the word VEL should now be blinking When turned ON the volume of the Percussion tone is controlled by how fast keys are played The fa...

Page 59: ... now be blinking On the original Hammond Organs with Touch Response Percussion Control such as the B 3 C 3 RT 3 and A 100 the Percussion sounds would taper off slightly at higher frequencies This Advanced Feature is designed to replicate this characteristic of the Percussion Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to turn Percussion Velocity Key Tracking ON or OFF ...

Page 60: ...ond Organs with Percussion Turn the VALUE Rotary Control to turn Percussion Drawbar Cancel ON or OFF Percussion Drawbar Level From the previous screen touch the PAGE RIGHT Touch Button once The letters underneath the word LEVEL should now be blinking The legend underneath the word LEVEL should now be blinking This Advanced Feature allows you to set the Drawbar Level when Percussion is ON at normal...

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