Jon Lord

In this video, Jon Lord talks about his Hammond B3. These are the most common drawbar settings (for "the beast" sound):

• The first four (lower) drawbars near maximum or maximum
• The last two (higher) drawbars on 1, 2 or 3, depending on the amplification and acoustics of the environment.
• Al the other 3 middle drawbars on minimum or mute.

It would be something like (in values): 888800022

In 1971 Deep Purple recorded his album "Machine Head" (edited in 1972). At some point, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore said he was to tired to record rhythm guitars, so Jon Lord decided to emulate it himself. For doing that, he conected Hammond organ to distorted Ritchie's amplifiers (Marshall Major at this time), and developed what he called "The Beast", one of his caracteristic sounds.

Jon Lord is known for using Leslie cabinets in his entire career. In this video you can see this cabinet behind him at 5:03, while playing Continuo on BACH, a Bach inconclused fugue - BWV1080 - adapted by him for his Windows solo album (Munich 01.06.74)

In this Getty Images photo from 1987, Jon Lord is seen playing a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer during a Deep Purple concert in Los Angeles.

At 5:51 the RMI can be seen next to the Hammond organ.

Jon Lord using a Moog Memorymoog Plus on stage. This organ was developed in 1982-1985. Picture was taken in Deep Purple concert in Australia, November 1984. (Photo by Hideo Kojima/Shinko Music/Getty Images).

In a live 1993 performance of "Beethoven" by Deep Purple, Jon Lord is seen playing the Hammond XB-2 Organ at the 1:20 mark of the video.

In the Video, Jon Lord plays the Hammond C3 hard overdriven with a Tube Marshall Full Stack

Jon Lord Playing ARP String Ensemble With Deep Purple At Nippon Budokan (MANDATORY CREDIT Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images) Jon Lord playing keyboards with Deep Purple at Nippon Budokan, December 15th, 1975. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

« My Hammond has a ring modulator from the old Gibson Maestro company. I bought six of them as soon as they stopped of them. I’m only on the second one-I still have four brand-new ones left in their original packages. The ring modulator operates as the central volume for the whole organ. There’s volume, pitch and modulation controls on it. If I really want to crank it, the ring modulator gives me the overdrive sound.»

In the user-uploaded photo from Procolharum, Jon Lord is pictured playing a Hammond A-100 Organ.

In this video Jon plays a Memorymoog

In the source provided by The Concert Database, Jon Lord is seen with an ARP Pro Soloist synthesizer positioned directly behind him, indicating its use in his performances.

Jon Lord can be seen playing an ARP Odyssey in this photo.

Korg M1 can be seen at 1:00 on the video.

Minimoog can be seen in picture of Jon Lord on this tweet from JonLord.org.

According to Roland UK, Jon said “The V-Piano is nigh on perfect. Astoundingly good – responsive and intuitive. A great pleasure to play”.

Jon Lord on stage with a Kurzweil PC2x LONDON - 25th SEPTEMBER: English drummer Ian Paice from Deep Purple performs live on stage with keyboard player Jon Lord (1941-2012) behind at the Sunflower Jam in Porchester Hall, London on 25th September 2008. (Photo by Dick Barnatt/Redferns)

I've got a little Kurzweil MicroPiano which gives me a wonderful piano? KEYBOARD MAGAZINE JUNE 1998

Jon Lord with a Hohner Clavinet D6 at Nippon Budokan (MANDATORY CREDIT Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images) Deep Purple Jon Lord live at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, December 1975. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

In this photo, Lord can be seen playing a Vox Continental on The Dating Game (a U.S. television show) in October 1968.

In an interview published in Music UK in May 1983, Jon Lord confirmed his use of the Moog Opus 3, stating, "I still use my old Hammond organ, which has been modified I don't know how many times. It's got all sorts of things built into it. On top of that there's a Clavinet and a Moog Opus which I basically use just to fatten-up the sounds. That's all on one side of me on stage."