love hammond but i don't have one or play - i goto see james taylor quartet look them up!

Big, BIG organ fan here!

I can't play but have always loved the sound, especially with Billy Preston at the helm. A friend of ours opened a recording studio several years ago and had an open house we went to. As soon as I walked in a spotted a Hammond with a Leslie speaker and my buddy was pretty surprised I even knew what it was just by looking at it. I spent about 20-30 minutes making all sorts of racket with it (I did mention I can't play) and it was a lot of fun. I wish I had the skills to play, it's such a cool, unique instrument!

OK - not Hammond. But I have a co-worker that bought a nearly 100 year old but perfect church pipe organ. *HUGE* beast. He had his entire living room ripped out and rebuilt with the pipe organ as the center piece. Looks and sounds incredible. Something like 20 feet wide and more than 2 stories tall.

I have my Grandmas Hammond from the 1960's. It still sounds great! Not sure what kind of Hammond it is, but I'll snap a pic tomorrow when I get home. Kept it around for that Allman Brothers cover band that never took off.

In another life when I toured with rock bands (mid 70s) I used to haul a B3 and Leslie around (along with my Fender Rhodes and Arp Odyssey). Check out the Dialed In mainplay tune. It features B3 playing the melody from time to time.

There's just not much music anywhere that's better than this:

Jimmy Smith, Eddie McFadden, and Peter Wagner "The Sermon"

The late, great Keith Emerson:

Cool! PM sent about your Wo Z...interested since you are so close to me in Pensacola for easy pickup.

Cheers,
Doc

Life-long musician and Hammond fan here. I have a rather rare Hammond S-101 chord organ I'm selling tomorrow, and I've had a several others. Got a free beat up M3 on craigslist I parted for some good money; a C2/122 combo also for free. Sold those as a pair for a grand. (If only the 2 had said 3!) Got an E100 at a goodwill for 10 bucks; parted it out and the power tubes sold for $275 by themselves. Lots of good deals if you keep your eyes and ears open.

Was just listening to Walter Wanderley a few minutes ago. Good stuff on the Hammond!!

Dammit Shimoda I apologize for forgetting about this. Pics coming soon. The legs are really delicately carved so I'm hesitant to move it by myself. Gimme 30 days. I'll find someone.

I bought a pin a while back from a guy in the Detroit area who restores Hammonds, particular for churches, and made a living doing it. Pretty cool, maybe something you can get serious with.

I had a B3 in college that I got tired of moving, so I chopped it in half, splitting the keyboard and draw bar unit from the bottom tone wheel and amp section. A crapload of wiring and connector assembly required, ugh. Maybe that's why I'm comfortable working on EMs now.

Interesting factoid I learned from doing a physics paper about the B3: because the tone wheels put a physical limit on the number of individual harmonics that can be supported (each wheel is a fundamental or harmonic for other notes), the notes across the keyboard are all using borrowed harmonics. They share more of the same tones the deeper into the draw bars you go. So not only are the individual notes tempered, but all the associated harmonics are as well. That means if you pull out all the draw bars, you can't really play any really flat or "off" notes, which is great for jamming and why these organs were great for pounding on in old 60s and 70s rock bands. It also makes me suspicious of sampled B3 sounds. To recreate a Hammond properly with modern tech, you need a sine wave generator for every harmonic configured in the same matrix as the original. Good times.

Nuff said...drops the mic !!!!