{"id":1620,"date":"2017-02-04T16:57:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1620-the-heart-of-hammond.html"},"modified":"2017-02-04T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T07:49:40","slug":"the-heart-of-hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1620-the-heart-of-hammond.html","title":{"rendered":"The Heart of Hammond"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2241 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1452-_MG_7503.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you know what these little glass bottles are you could be; <br \/>\n<br \/>\na) a musician,<br \/>\nb) a radio frequency engineer, or<br \/>\nc) have been around for quite a long time.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThese three little glass tubes are part of the audio amplifier of Lachy Doley&#8217;s on stage Hammond Organ and many contemporary musicians will attest are at the heart of the instrument&#8217;s rich warm tones.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFifty years ago nearly all our electronic equipment from televisions to radios used them. Today they are almost part of legend.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nJust for an amusing contrast a modern flagship mobile phone has the silicon transistor equivalent of one billion of these little glass tubes miniaturised in its tiny form factor.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGlass vacuum tubes are still made and used today despite our micro-sized transistor marvels and as long as we have musicians, audiophiles and radio frequency engineers they will remain part of the electronics landscape.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018The Heart of Hammond&#8217; 1\/80s f\/2.8 ISO500 200mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; If you know what these little glass bottles are you could be; a) a musician, b) a radio frequency engineer, or c) have been around for quite a long time. These three little glass tubes are part of the audio amplifier of Lachy Doley&#8217;s on stage Hammond Organ and many contemporary &#8230; <a title=\"The Heart of Hammond\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1620-the-heart-of-hammond.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Heart of Hammond\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}