Companies such as Korg, Roland, and Clavia have achieved success in providing more lightweight and portable emulations of the original tonewheel organs. Hammond-Suzuki continues to manufacture a variety of organs for both professional players and churches.

This culminated in the production of the 'New B-3' in 2002, a recreation of the original B-3 organ using digital technology. The Hammond name was purchased by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation, which proceeded to manufacture digital simulations of the most popular tonewheel organs. These organs were less popular, and the company went out of business in 1985.

In the 1970s, the Hammond Organ Company abandoned tonewheels and switched to integrated circuits. Jimmy Smith's use of the Hammond B-3, with its additional harmonic percussion feature, inspired a generation of organ players, and its use became more widespread in the 1960s and 1970s in rhythm and blues, rock, reggae, and progressive rock. Jazz club owners found that organ trios were cheaper than hiring a big band. It quickly became popular with professional jazz musicians in organ trios-small groups centered on the Hammond organ. The organ was originally marketed by the Hammond Organ Company to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, or instead of a piano. Vibrato, chorus, reverb, harmonic percussionĢ × 61-note manuals, 25-note pedals (consoles)Ģ × 44-note manuals, 13-note pedals (spinets)Īmphenol connector to Hammond Tone Cabinet or Leslie speakerĪround two million Hammond organs have been manufactured.

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