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The Hammond organ/Leslie speaker corporate feud

While it has been supplanted by electronic keyboards the past three decades: the Hammond B-3 electro-mechanical organ changed popular music in the 20th Century. Its counterpart was the Leslie rotating speaker – which brought-out the sound of this instrument like no other. Yet because the Leslie came from a rival manufacturer: what should have been a “beautiful friendship” became, instead …… a corporate feud of the first magnitude.

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