@theironfreak Basically hitting the brake on the Leslie to stop it spinning. Standard trick

nope

That’s swell. Hang a set of mini blinds in front of the Leslie horn and you can have some really slick ghetto swell shades to add expression.

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its just the slowing down from the tonewheels, after the organ’s put off

@theironfreak its called turning off the organ while playing it. the tone wheel generator is slowing down (usually its at a continuous speed synched up to the 60hz power)

@theironfreak it’s just toggling the power switch. It’s fun, especially when you have a tube amp and it takes a while for it to shut down.

@theironfreak
I don’t know, I’m no organist by any stretch of the imagination.

0:35 If i were listening to this video but not watching it I would have though the organ and the organist just melted all of a sudden. . . lol. is there a proper name for that blues trick?

For a second I thought you were playing “Don’t Play Cards With Satan”

You know, I got all my parts of Ebay from essentially gutted Leslies. The only “authentic” Leslie stuff I’ve bought to date are this horn & driver.

Pleeease where is it possible to get parts? Impossible to find a leslie where i live (the Canary Islands, Spain) and transport of a real one would cost more than the leslie itself! I use an old, analog Korg CX3 organ with a Hughes and Kettner overdrive tube pedal, but would love to build a real leslie to go with it as well.

hahahahaha you go boy, thats funny as hell ( and sounds quite fuc*ing nice to boot) I love ingenuity!

lmao!!!!

@cichlidkeeper89
I just tuned off the power long enough for the motor to lose sync and turned on the power again to keep the tubes going. It’s an old blues trick. Another thing trick is to hit the starter motor while the organ is running to make the organ go sharp but you get an obnoxious buzz.

i was wondering.

you reached under the organ, did something, then the organ lowered in pitch until it was silent.

what was it?

What a great jury-rig! And it sounds good.

No disrespect was assumed. Anyway, watch “experiment 4″ of this series to see the almost complete version. I’ve made a few minor improvements since then though.

I ment no disrespect, I have tryed building one of these in the past (to no avail, due to lack of funds) and understand a kind of anguish associated in the construction of such a thing. my comment was merely a reflection of past frustrations. : )

Hmm, buy one for $1,200 or build one for under $200 and have conversation piece. If you haven’t noticed in the video, I already have a manufactured Leslie.
:p

oh for fuck sake just BUY ONE!

lol drill powered

ghetto?

Wow thats brilliant!

lol, that sounds better than the leslie speakers that suzuki makes. . . (the company that bought the hammond and leslie names. . . not the same suzuki that makes motorcycles, but still japanese)

then again, that’s an alnico driver with phenolic diaphragm. . . they use ferro-fluid cooled drivers with non-phenolic diaphragms now (i think the magnet is ceramic. . . it’s harsher sounding than the old alnico drivers)

This is the definition of awesome. You sir have made my week. Things like this make our country great.