Hammond organ

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Trademark.

a brand of musical instrument, resembling in shape an upright piano, with two keyboards and electronic tone generation.

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How to use Hammond organ in a sentence

Camille Hammond, CEO of Tinina Q Cade Foundation, said simply that the pathways to parenthood are different.
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“Nobody wants to stand in the way of people having families,” says Hammond.
Want Blue Eyes With That Baby?: The Strange New World of Human Reproduction|Eleanor Clift|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The brain, also an organ, is particularly sensitive to the loss of oxygen.
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Indeed, the body would ultimately have rejected the organ transplant.
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But in Jersey City the fight goes on, with fabulous organ accompaniment.
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But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
In the first case “I” stands for the person using it, and in the last case it means the organ of sight.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
The primal rigidity of the straight line yields later on to the freedom of an organ.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Of course there had been no organ in this church before, or the worthy deacon might have known more about it.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
The flute, a component part of the organ, is one of the most ancient of musical instruments.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller

British Dictionary definitions for Hammond organ

Hammond organ

noun

trademark an electric organ with two keyboards, electronic tone generation, and a wide variety of tone colours: invented in 1934

Word Origin for Hammond organ

C20: named after Laurens Hammond (1895–1973), US mechanical engineer

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