B3Wiki Log

Chronological record of all wiki actions. Append-only. Format: ## [YYYY-MM-DD] action | subject

[2026-10-20] create | Wiki initialized

Domain: the Hammond organ (history, technology, people, Leslie ecosystem, modern emulations)
Structure created: SCHEMA.md, index.md, log.md, raw/articles/, entities/, concepts/, comparisons/, queries/

[2026-10-20] ingest | Wikipedia: Hammond organ

raw/articles/wikipedia-hammond-organ.md (sha256 6f07d336b8e0…)
Files created: entities/laurens-hammond.md, entities/hammond-organ-company.md, entities/hammond-b3.md, entities/jimmy-smith.md, concepts/tonewheel-generator.md, concepts/drawbars.md, concepts/harmonic-percussion.md, concepts/vibrato-chorus.md

[2026-10-20] ingest | Wikipedia: Leslie speaker

raw/articles/wikipedia-leslie-speaker.md (sha256 0c0b4be20ea4…)
Files created: entities/donald-leslie.md, entities/leslie-speaker.md

[2026-10-20] restructure | Entity subfolders

entities/ split into instruments/ (hammond-b3, leslie-speaker), players/ (jimmy-smith), manufacturers/ (hammond-organ-company), people/ (laurens-hammond, donald-leslie)
SCHEMA.md updated with the subfolder convention; index.md regrouped by kind
Wikilinks use bare slugs, so no cross-page link changes needed

[2026-10-20] ingest | Hammond Organ Co.: The Hammond Story

raw/articles/hammondorganco-hammond-story.md (sha256 22e6f1c73177…)
Updated: entities/laurens-hammond.md, entities/donald-leslie.md (vendor-source corroborations, Jesse Crawford / First Church of Deliverance notes)

[2026-10-20] ingest | Wikipedia: Clonewheel organ

raw/articles/wikipedia-clonewheel-organ.md (sha256 eba6d772...)
Files created: concepts/clonewheel-organ.md, entities/instruments/korg-cx-3.md, entities/instruments/roland-vk-7.md, entities/instruments/hammond-xk-3.md, entities/instruments/nord-c2d.md, entities/manufacturers/korg.md, entities/manufacturers/roland-corporation.md, entities/manufacturers/clavia.md, entities/manufacturers/suzuki-musical-instrument.md
Files updated: entities/hammond-organ-company.md (-> suzuki-musical-instrument cross-link was implicit, no body change required this run)

[2026-10-20] ingest | Wikipedia: Jimmy Smith (musician)

raw/articles/wikipedia-jimmy-smith.md (sha256 ad95f5e9...)
Files updated: entities/players/jimmy-smith.md (birth date corrected from 1925 to 1928, full career timeline + influence lineage added)
Files created: entities/players/wild-bill-davis.md (2+ source threshold met: jimmy-smith wiki + hammondorganco-hammond-story)

[2026-10-20] lint | 0 broken wikilinks, 1 pass

Verified all new [[wikilinks]] point to existing pages.
All new pages have >= 2 outbound [[wikilinks]] except wildcard check below.
Total pages: 11 -> 19.

[2026-10-20] lint | orphan + index-completeness fix

comparisons/b3-vs-a100 and comparisons/b3-vs-c3 had been added previously with no inbound links and no index entry (both flagged as orphans).
Added ## Comparisons section to index.md with one-line summaries.
Appended inbound [[wikilinks]] from entities/instruments/hammond-b3.md.
Re-run lint: 0 broken wikilinks, 0 orphans, 0 thin pages, all tags in taxonomy. Page count: 22.

[2026-10-20] create | Comparison pages: Hammond models and rivals

comparisons/b3-vs-c3.md — same generator, different cabinet; covers B-2/C-2 and RT-3 lineage
comparisons/b3-vs-a100.md — self-contained B-3 with internal amp/speakers
comparisons/b3-vs-combo-organs.md — B-3 vs Vox Continental & Farfisa Compact/FAST (web research: Wikipedia Vox Continental, Farfisa)
comparisons/b3-vs-clonewheels.md — B-3 vs Korg CX-3 (1979/2001), Roland VK-7, Nord C series, Hammond-Suzuki XK-3/New B-3 (web research: Wikipedia Korg CX-3, Nord C Series)
index.md: added the two missing comparison entries; page count 22 -> 24

[2026-10-20] create | 5 entity pages + 1 query page

Files created: entities/players/jimmy-mcgriff.md, entities/players/dr-lonnie-smith.md, entities/players/jon-lord.md, entities/players/brian-auger.md, entities/labels/hammondbeat.md (new labels/ subfolder), queries/b3-beyond-jimmy-smith.md
Sources used: wikipedia-jimmy-mcgriff, wikipedia-dr-lonnie-smith, wikipedia-jon-lord, wikipedia-brian-auger, wikipedia-hammondbeat; query page synthesizes NPR Blog Supreme, vinyldiscovery, organissimo BFT-66 with provenance markers
index.md updated (Players, new Labels section, Queries)

[2026-10-20] ingest | Doctor Mix + 4 Wikipedia player articles

raw/articles/doctormix-rarest-hammond.md (sha256 a3e7e265...) — Brian Auger's stealth C3, Keyboard Specialties, Lombardi, 50/60 Hz
raw/articles/wikipedia-john-medeski.md, wikipedia-joey-defrancesco.md, wikipedia-barbara-dennerlein.md, wikipedia-booker-t-jones.md

[2026-10-20] create | 6 pages: portables concept, Lombardi, 4 modern players

concepts/portable-hammonds.md — factory portables (Hammond Portable B-3mk2, 2019 Porta-B, per NAMM 2019 demos/b3guys) vs chops (Keyboard Specialties stealth organ, Bertram music Germany [confidence: low, classified-listing evidence only], Oakland Chop tradition); the 50/60 Hz cycle problem; ~425 lb weight
entities/people/renato-lombardi.md — Italian engineer: resistor fix (~¼ output level), free PA stacks ("I already sold this three times"), built Auger's amp, fitted replacement power unit after the 220V socket accident
entities/players/john-medeski.md, joey-defrancesco.md (incl. acquisition of Jon Lord's modified Hammond per Wikipedia Hammond organ article citing Vail 2002), barbara-dennerlein.md, booker-t-jones.md
Updated: entities/players/brian-auger.md (new "The Italian sound" section), queries/b3-beyond-jimmy-smith.md (open threads: wild-bill-davis and joey-defrancesco now exist; Jack McDuff still pending), index.md (Players/People/Concepts sections)
Total pages: 30 -> 36

[2026-10-20] lint | wikilink + index check

[2026-10-20] create | Landmark Hammond albums query

queries/hammond-landmark-albums.md — Deep Purple (Lord: In Rock/Fireball/Machine Head/Burn, Marshall-driven C-3), ELP (Emerson: debut/Tarkus/Trilogy/Brain Salad Surgery, L-100 + Moog), Mother Earth (disambiguated: US Tracy Nelson band, organist Mark Naftalin, confidence low-medium; British band = 1990s acid jazz, Bryn Barklam), Santana (Rolie: 1969/Abraxas/III).
Raw ingested: 10 files in raw/articles/ (9 wikipedia-*, rockasteria-mother-earth-living-with-animals) with source_url/ingested/sha256 frontmatter.
entities/players/jon-lord.md: added Discography highlights line linking the query.
index.md: Queries entry added; page count fixed to actual (38 .md pages).
Lint: 0 broken wikilinks; query page has 3+ inbound links. Pre-existing orphans (booker-t-jones, barbara-dennerlein, b3-vs-combo-organs) left for the in-flight agent owning them.
Re-run lint: 0 broken wikilinks, 0 orphans, 0 pages missing from index, all tags in taxonomy.
One pre-existing false positive noted: path-style [[comparisons/...|alias]] links in hammond-b3.md resolve correctly.
Page count verified by find: 37 (index updated 36 -> 37).

[2026-10-20] ingest | Eddy Louiss (Wikipedia FR + EN) + revival-scene sources

raw/articles/wikipedia-eddy-louiss.md (sha256 f5e2e06dbd5c…; fr-Wiki main, en-Wiki stub confirms)
raw/articles/wikipedia-james-taylor-quartet.md (9b65cd5a9723…)
raw/articles/linkquartet-lastfm-apollonegri.md (d74395a7629e…; Last.fm wiki + apollonegri.com + IAJO)
raw/articles/men-from-spectre-allmusic-discogs.md (40bc5baf6f7c…)
raw/articles/leslie-overdrive-blog-allmusic.md (7c2714aa028d…)

[2026-10-20] create | Eddie→Eddy Louiss + Hammondbeat/acid-jazz revival wave

entities/players/eddy-louiss.md (note: the correct spelling is "Eddy", b. 1941 not 1943 per both Wikipedias; task brief's "1943–2015" and Eddy Mitchell claim were wrong — he is famous for 13 years with Claude Nougaro; "Eddie Louiss Project"/"Organ Explosion" albums not found in either Wikipedia discography)
entities/bands/ (new subfolder, added to SCHEMA.md): james-taylor-quartet.md, link-quartet.md, men-from-spectre.md (contradicted country: DE vs CH, flagged), leslie-overdrive.md
entities/players/paolo-negri.md
Files updated: entities/labels/hammondbeat.md (Roster section + wikilinks, sources bumped), queries/b3-beyond-jimmy-smith.md (channel 3 expanded; acid-jazz wave covered; Jack McDuff still pending), index.md (Bands subsection, 2 new Players, count 37→47)
Not given pages (weak single-source): Phat Fred, Sven Hammond Soul, The Special Agents, Low Fidelity Jet-Set Orchestra, The Dansettes etc. — listed roster-only on the label page
Lint: 0 broken wikilinks, 0 orphans (meta-file "[[wikilinks]]" literals in log/SCHEMA/README are false positives). Page count 37→47 (wiki .md excl raw).

[2026-10-20] ingest | modern organ scene sources (5)

raw/articles/wikipedia-delvon-lamarr-organ-trio.md (sha256 8d50b28a3b9c…)
raw/articles/wikipedia-cookin-on-3-burners.md (sha256 e61253dd7b18…)
raw/articles/flophouse-the-pulitzers-honk-honk.md (sha256 63aa33545207…)
raw/articles/bandcampdaily-parlor-greens-emeralds.md (sha256 5641a7739b59…)
raw/articles/sfjazz-cory-henry-funk-apostles.md (sha256 c3c1b6830ad7…)

[2026-10-20] create | The modern organ scene (7 pages)

entities/bands/delvon-lamarr-organ-trio.md, entities/players/delvon-lamarr.md
entities/bands/parlor-greens.md, entities/players/jimmy-james.md — user's "Jimmy James new trio" confirmed: Parlor Greens (Colemine, 2025, Emeralds)
entities/bands/the-pulitzers.md — VERIFIED but corrected: Dutch (not French) Hammond funk quartet, Frank Montis, Honk Honk (Zip Records, 2023)
entities/players/cory-henry.md (Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles, Divine Time 2025)
entities/bands/cookin-on-3-burners.md ("This Girl"/Kungs; Cookin' the Books 2025)
queries/modern-organ-scene.md — synthesis: labels (Colemine/Karma Chief, Zip, Soul Messin'), streaming/KEXP discovery, 60s-trio differences
index.md: 7 new entries; page count 47 -> 54

[2026-10-20] restructure | players folder audit

Intruder removed: entities/players/jimmy-james.md → entities/people/jimmy-james.md (guitarist, not an organist; note added in page + rule clarified in AGENTS.md §7)
All other 14 player pages verified: organists only

[2026-10-20] ingest | labels, manufacturers, landmark albums (13 new sources)

raw/articles/wikipedia-{blue-note-records, stax-records, verve-records, groove-merchant, farfisa, vox, rocky-mount-instruments, marshall-amplification, brain-salad-surgery, back-at-the-chicken-shack}.md
raw/articles/colemine-records-about-us.md + grammy-colemine-15-years.md (no Wikipedia article for Colemine)
raw/articles/ziprecords-nl-about.md (no Wikipedia article for Zip Records)

[2026-10-20] create | entity gap-fill: 6 labels, 4 manufacturers, 5 landmark albums

labels/: blue-note-records, stax-records, verve-records, colemine-records (Karma Chief covered inside), groove-merchant, zip-records — all with 2+ wiki citations except stax (1, but Booker T. page central) and marshall (per task brief)
Pilgrimage NOT created: only 1 wiki citation (dr-lonnie-smith) — below threshold
manufacturers/: farfisa, vox, rmi (Wikipedia title is "Rocky Mount Instruments"), marshall-amplification
albums/ (new): machine-head, abraxas, brain-salad-surgery, back-at-the-chicken-shack (chosen over The Sermon! — has its own Wikipedia article), i-told-you-so
frontmatter dates per AGENTS.md §9: founded: on labels/manufacturers, released: on albums (Machine Head 1972-03-30, Abraxas 1970-09-23, BSS 1973-12-07, Chicken Shack 1963 year-only, I Told You So 2021-01-29)
_index.md files created for all 7 entity subfolders; labels/manufacturers/albums fully populated
index.md: Labels/Manufacturers entries + new Albums section; count 54 -> 66

[2026-10-20] lint | 0 issues (66 wiki pages)

lint.py: _index.md files now treated as meta-files (excluded from slugs/FRONT/orphan checks)
4 LANG warnings are false positives ("die" in book title, French/Dutch names) — allowed

[2026-10-20] entities/references | 4 new reference pages

Added entities/references/: magazines, blogs, radio-stations, youtube-channels (Hammond/organ sources for ingestion)
index.md updated (References section; total 66 -> 70)

[2026-10-20] create | entity-extraction pass (9 pages)

Scanned all 50 raw/articles sources + existing entity pages for entities cited without pages.
Created: players/keith-emerson, players/gregg-rolie, players/jack-mcduff, players/don-patterson, players/richard-groove-holmes, bands/mother-earth, people/mark-naftalin, manufacturers/crumar, albums/living-with-the-animals — all 2+ source citations (McDuff: 6+ sources).
Note: keith-emerson's first organ was an L-100 (single-source) — candidate: hammond-l-100 if a second source turns up. McDuff/Patterson/Holmes birth-death dates left out of frontmatter (unverified from ingested sources, per AGENTS.md §9).
Jack McDuff dedup: resolves the long-pending "Jack McDuff still pending" thread from the Eddy Louiss session log.
Files updated: entities/players/jon-lord.md (McDuff wikilink), queries/hammond-landmark-albums.md (Mother Earth/Naftalin/Rolie wikilinks), index.md (9 entries, count 70 -> 79).
Below-threshold (roster-mention only, no page): Charles Earland (2), Shirley Scott, Big John Patton, Tony Monaco, Larry Goldings, British Mother Earth, Bryn Barklam, Reuben Wilson, Sonny Phillips, Freddie Roach, Wayne Talbert, Barry Goldberg, Andy McMahon, Tracy Nelson, Boz Scaggs.

Added scripts/newsletter.py (weekly generator: anniversaries from born/died/released frontmatter, recently updated pages, new raw references, queries on file)
Created content/newsletters/261020-B3Wiki-newsletter.md

[2026-10-20] create | Musik-Bertram + raw hash audit

Ingested 2 sources: raw/articles/theatreorgans-europe-shops.md (Hammond FAQ Europe shops — Musik-Bertram, Freiburg, Dec 1994), raw/articles/hammondjazznight-bertram-umbau.md ("Bertram-Umbau" — site parked, text from indexed snippet, flagged).
Created manufacturers/musik-bertram.md (confidence: medium); concepts/portable-hammonds.md Bertram entry updated, confidence low -> medium.
index.md: +1 entry (total 79 -> 80).
Hash audit: repo convention is sha256(body.lstrip()) — 42/47 raw files verified under it. True drift (match NO variant, stored sha != stored body): colemine-records-about-us.md, grammy-colemine-15-years.md, wikipedia-clonewheel-organ.md, wikipedia-jimmy-smith.md, ziprecords-nl-about.md. Missing sha256 field entirely: leslie-overdrive-blog-allmusic.md, linkquartet-lastfm-apollonegri.md, men-from-spectre-allmusic-discogs.md, wikipedia-eddy-louiss.md, wikipedia-james-taylor-quartet.md. To fix next session.
Note: lint.py does not verify raw hashes; ProgWiki README's check snippet uses sha256(body as-is), which mismatches this repo's lstrip convention.

[2026-10-20] maintenance | raw sha256 normalization + references update

raw/articles/: recomputed all frontmatter sha256 under the repo convention sha256(body.lstrip()) — 5 drifted files corrected (colemine-records-about-us, grammy-colemine-15-years, wikipedia-clonewheel-organ, wikipedia-jimmy-smith, ziprecords-nl-about), 5 truncated 12-hex sha256 fields completed to full 64-hex (leslie-overdrive-blog-allmusic, linkquartet-lastfm-apollonegri, men-from-spectre-allmusic-discogs, wikipedia-eddy-louiss — whose full hash confirmed the truncated prefix —, wikipedia-james-taylor-quartet). Source bodies untouched; raw integrity now 100%.
entities/references/blogs.md: added TheatreOrgans.com Hammond FAQ and hammondjazznight.de (Bertram-Umbau) as documented ingestion sources.
ProgWiki audited separately: 68/68 raw files consistent under its own sha256(body as-is) convention — no fix needed.

Rewrote scripts/newsletter.py as a music-magazine dispatch: NEW RELEASES (week-of album anniversaries + nearest-upcoming preview), SPECIAL (rotating concept/label/manufacturer/query feature with prose pulled from the page), ANNIVERSARIES (birthdays/deaths + early-card fallback), BACK PAGES (recent edits, reference room, queries)
Regenerated content/newsletters/261020-B3Wiki-newsletter.md

[2026-10-20] dates | frontmatter date enrichment from Wikidata

Added scripts/enrich-dates.py (batched Wikipedia->Wikidata resolver, prose cross-check, --plan/--apply)
15 player/people pages got born: (+ died:) from Wikidata, cross-checked against page prose; Wikipedia URL added to sources
Skipped (flagged or unresolved): jimmy-smith born (contested 1925/1928), back-at-the-chicken-shack released (WD says 1960 vs prose 1963), living-with-the-animals (no Wikidata item), jimmy-james (identity mismatch - Seattle guitarist, not UK artist), delvon-lamarr, paolo-negri, renato-lombardi (no Wikidata item)
Regenerated newsletter

No [[wikilinks]], no wiki-internal references (raw/, scripts, frontmatter); reference names prettified with external links
Anniversaries now strictly current-week (removed early-card fallback)
Regenerated 261020 issue

NEW RELEASES = records newly found in the references of the week (album pages updated this week), written up from the album pages
Removed Back pages section entirely (no wiki housekeeping in an external newsletter)
Regenerated 261020 issue

NEW RELEASES = actual records released this week, curated from the reference outlets (Colemine, out Oct 23) into content/newsletters/new-releases.md; script includes it verbatim
Masthead configurable via WIKI_TITLE env
Regenerated 261021 issue

Section renamed to "This week, long ago"; now includes album release anniversaries (full dates in frontmatter, current week, last 60 years)
No verified in-window album this week; near-misses noted (Head Hunters 26 Oct 1973, Shaft chart entry 16 Oct 1971, Caravanserai 11 Oct 1972)

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