What Kind Of Hammond Is This???
Lazer
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I just bought this guy from the thrift store across the street from my job. $14.99 for this guy and Senor Soul - Psychaldelic Sounds of....LP seemed like a good deal to me, but I have no clue what model it is. It has an inspection date of 12/2/72 but I can't figure out what model it is. I've done extensive googling and have found no matching organ. Any help would be awesome.
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it appears that was stapled to the back and now gone
I don't think you have a 'Leslie'. A Leslie cabinet is a whole different 'box' if you will with a rotating cone around the speaker. You probably have a hook-up for one, but I do not believe Leslie's were ever built into Hammonds. As a matter of fact, I believe Hammond dis-liked Leslies and preferred their own built in speakers.
Is this a tube amp? If it is...then I would think it's got the Tonewheel Generator mechanism for the sound which gives it the classic Hammond sound. I know around this time, mid-70's, they started going solid-state and phasing out the Tonewheel sound.
Can't really track down what you have though. With all the different color switches, it looks much like an Aurora, but the overall shape doesn't look like one. And...it looks like this one has no drawbars which I know Hammond made some in the later stages for entry level organists.
Good luck...
ah ha, looks like this does actually have a built in leslie and it's a 125 XL model.
thanks for the help all.
http://anchorage.craigslist.org/msg/464247125.html
Hammond 125 XL
I believe the X-series went solid-state and no Tonewheel. But...you did get it for one hell of a price...
That's cool that it does have the Leslie in there. Didn't know they were doing that. Have fun with it.
boy, from the auctions/adds I've seen it looks like that thing would have sold for a bit more than $5.
I have one too that I traded for a few guitar pedals.
I need to get it back from my friends house, but I still don't have enough room in my garage for it yet.
- spidey
Yeah...it would have been a hell of a steal but it all depends on the condition. Those things are MASSIVELY heavy and would need a truck and some people to get it anywhere. If it didn't need much work...yeah...would have been pretty good. I have been hearing about good condition B-3's going for a couple G's...but I would refuse to pay that much.
Actually, I checked out a Hammond (I think an M model) a couple weeks ago with a fellow strutter, but the organ wasn't making any sound at all. It would power up and that's it. I was willing to spend the 50 bucks to pick it up, but this strutter is mad weak (KnewJak)... so we left it. It also would have required all electronics re-soldered and re-worked...which I could have done...but it wouldn't have been worth it. Besides...I got a Rhodes instead...
Lazer:
Yeah...they probably can sell for more but the real Hammond peeps are looking for the non-transistor models.
no. im just not mad stupid. stupid.
Yeah...would have been a lot of work...another one will turn up.
picked this one up at the thrift store a few years back, it's an m-103, works great but i still haven't learned to play it