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>    Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:59:13 -0000
>    From: "meatballfulton" <rost@...>
> Subject: Re: Crazy Who sounds
>
> --- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Scott Murrell" <bjork01@c...> wrote:
>>
>> I had no idea it was actually done on a home organ,
>> that's interesting and maybe gives me a little better
>> insight into how to program that sound knowing that
>> it's a repeating banjo part.
>
> My mom owned a Lowrey, that's the board I learned to play on. In
> addition to the "repeat percussion" feature (square wave modulated
> tremelo) it also had a pitch bender ("Hawaiian guitar" effect) and a
> wah-wah built in. Both the bender and wah were activated by toe levers
> at the top of the volume pedal.
>
> You can hear the bender in use on most Soft Machine albums, Mike
> Ratledge used a Lowrey rather than a Hammond.
>
>

Me too....an HR88, I believe was the model I had. Pre wah-wah, I am 
sure on mine.
I was so happy when we traded it in for a Hammond as the Who stuff was 
the only thing that sounded good on that thing!

Linda