In The 1930s, The Hammond Organ Took America By Storm, Setting A New Standard
(ArtsJournal Music)

The Federal Trade Commission held an entire hearing in 1937 to evaluate the Hammond´s sonority. The Commission sought to determine whether a series of advertising claims about the Hammond´s timbre were `deceptive, misleading and false.` Though many of the hearing´s participants believed their testimony would go down in history as an important reckoning of what […]