Note: You are viewing an old revision of this page. View the current version.

Support HammondWiki. Donate!
PayPal

Describe HenningHøjen here. I was born in 1945 on a small farm in the northern part of Denmark. At the age of 8 I started playing the violin, my parents gave me one for Christmas. We lived far away from teaching facilities, there was no music-school at that time, so it was the help-youself method. At the age of 15 I saw the Danish guitarist Jorgen Ingmann play "Apache" on the television, - and I was hooked !!! I started playing guitar, learned very fast the principle of playing solos in all keys - only a few guitarplayers were able to do so at that time - - and after about one and half a year I joined my first band. As time went on I moved to town for college. I got in touch with a lot of other musicians, and I changed over to the electric bass, which during many years was my favourite instrument. I now and then still play both guitar and bass - only one at the time !!!!!!. When I turned 50 I had a Roland FP-1 piano as a birthday-present, and I payed a lot of effort in learning to play. It came quite fast to a usable level, -after all it was a matter of tranferring the skills to a "new" instrument - -, and I then had a Pari-organ(XTOL) as a present from my younger brother, - he had it, but never played, maybe because the percussion was defective. I repaired it (I'm electronic engineer), but as described in the website here it came to en end. Then I had another Pari, the Attck, which also showed up to be defective, and at last I bought a Hammond M3, which I still have. They are quite rare here, so I bought it through an English dealer ( it has to be a 50 Hz version for Europe). In my "bass-periode" I plaýed as a professionl musician during six years, but ended my career here as I had got a family, - - the musician's life doesn't cope well with family-life seen from a social aspect. I now mainly play music at the hobbyist's level. Henning Højen

The content of this page is Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002 Geoffrey T. Dairiki and the other authors of the content, whoever they may be.
This is free information and you are welcome redistribute it under certain conditions; see http://www.dairiki.org/HammondWiki/opl.html for details.
Absolutely no warrantee is made as to the correctness of the information on this page.