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1971 Hammond B-3 Walnut w/Leslie 122
1971 Organ Serial Number C121169
1971 Leslie Serial Number 32286
Mint Condition - Cabinets refinished 2010
Repaired to AAA operating condition
Price $ 6,950.00
The serial number, 22535, slots in between two other organs on the tonewheel general list that were both identified as 1963 production units. Speaker serial AO-23232-0 15 shows a ‚3‘ for the last digit of the year. What information might you be able to supply about a Hammond Organ Model E182 Serial number A 30592 Thank you.
Medley of:
'After You've Gone' by Lenny Dee
'Laura' from the Movie Laura
'Sunny Moon For Two' by Sonny Rollins
Version #2
Played by Hammond Artist Tony Thomas
Movie & Soundtrack of this B-3 Organ & Leslie 122
(Streaming Media File)
Drawbars Swell 9 Pitches 2 Sets, Great 9 Pitches 2 sets. Pedals 2 Pitches
Full Polyphony
91 Tone Wheel Electromechanical
Direct Analog Keying
Vibrato / Chorus
Normal & Soft Volume Control
Touch Response Percussion
6 Pin Leslie Socket
Weight 425 lbs
Tony Thomas is a nationally known pianist/organist/keyboardist, currently based in Memphis. Although he has performed and/or recorded in nearly every musical genre (ranging from Country to Rock and even Grand Opera!), he is known best as a Jazz artist. Improvisation is his forte. He is a five-time winner of the N.A.R.A.S (the “Grammy People”) Premier Player Award for Keyboards and/or Piano and was inducted recently into that organization’s Premier Player Hall of Fame. He has recorded literally thousands of commercial music tracks as well as cuts with Joe Walsh, U2, Jimi Jamison (lead singer of the band “Survivor”), and, most recently, an album of Standards with internationally known Opera Star, Kallen Esperian. Tony has performed with Al Jarreau, David Sanborn, Hank Crawford, and the late Richard “Groove” Holmes. He is also an accomplished piano technician with 30+ years experience. Questions or comments about Tony's arrangements and available Cd's should be sent via email to: tonytunes@bellsouth.net
1966 Hammond B-3 Walnut w/Leslie 122
1966 Organ Serial Number C97023
1966 Leslie Serial Number 28283
Mint Condition - Cabinets refinished 2010
Repaired to AAA operating condition
Price $7,950.00
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Medley of:
'Give Me A June Night' by Lenny Dee
'Laura' from the Movie Laura
'Sunny Moon For Two' by Sonny Rollins Version #3
Played by Hammond Artist Tony Thomas
Movie & Soundtrack of this B-3 Organ & Leslie 122
(Streaming Media File)
Drawbars Swell 9 Pitches 2 Sets, Great 9 Pitches 2 sets. Pedals 2 Pitches
Full Polyphony
91 Tone Wheel ElectromechanicalDirect Analog Keying
Vibrato / Chorus
Normal & Soft Volume Control
Touch Response Percussion
6 Pin Leslie Socket
Weight 425 lbs
1956 Hammond B-3 Walnut w/Leslie 122
1956 Organ Serial Number C61136
1970 Leslie Serial Number 12993
1956 JR-20 Speaker SN 77844
Mint Condition - Cabinets refinished 2010
Repaired to AAA operating condition
Price $ 8,950.00
Medley of:
'After You've Gone' by Lenny Dee
'Laura' from the Movie Laura
'Sunny Moon For Two' by Sonny Rollins - Version #1
played by Hammond Artist Tony Thomas
Movie & Soundtrack of this B-3 Organ & Leslie 122
(Streaming Media File)
Drawbars Swell 9 Pitches 2 Sets, Great 9 Pitches 2 sets. Pedals 2 Pitches
Full Polyphony
91 Tone Wheel Electromechanical
Direct Analog Keying
Vibrato / Chorus
Normal & Soft Volume Control
Touch Response Percussion
6 Pin Leslie Socket
Weight 425 lbs
Price for C2 & Leslie $ 5,495.00
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Price for B3 & Leslie $ 8,995.00
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Wurlitzer Side Man, 1960 Cherry Rare, vintage instrument
Everything works Model 5000 All original, Mint condition Serial Number 613817
Price $ 500.00
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Hammond B-3 sn 089754
Mint Condition - Repaired to AAA operating condition
Leslie 122 available
Price: $7,995.00
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Hammond B-3 Walnut Serial Number 082912
Mint Condition - Repaired to AAA operating condition
Leslie 122 available
Price: $7,995.00
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Hammond B-3 CherrySerial Numbaer 76633
Mint Condition - Repaired to AAA operating condition
Leslie 122 available
Price: $7,995.00
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Hammond B-3 Walnut Serial Number 100012
Mint Condition - Repaired to AAA operating condition
Leslie 122 available
Price: $7,995.00
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Hammond B-3 Serial Number 71851
Mint Condition - Repaired to AAA operating condition
Leslie 122 available
Price: $7,995.00
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Hammond B-3 Cherry Serial Number 83744
Mint Condition - Repaired to AAA operating condition
Leslie 122 available
Price: $7,995.00
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Hammond X-66 Console Organ with bench and Original Custom Tone cabinets
(Leslie 122 compatible) Owned and customized for the late John Seng, a Hammond touring artist, and issued directly to him from the factory. This instrument was, until only recently, maintained by Chicago-based Hammond technicians and performs flawlessly. Lots of extras are included, most notably an additional set of custom built Lowrey tone generators which operate in addition to theoriginal Hammond 'Orchestral' sounds. These are coupled to the Swell manual, and have their own controls (see 'Brass and Strings' image below) Also included the technical literature (shop manuals) for both the X-66 and the Lowrey custom tone generator.
For more information about John Seng click on link below.
Obituary for John Seng
Price $ 8,495.00
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Technics SX-PR 1000 Digital Mini-Grand essemble
Features:
1,025 Dynamic Sounds
512 Rhytyms
16 Track Sequencer
240 watts Stereo Speaker System
Bench and Manual Included
Price 9,495.00
Hammond A-100 Walnut Serial Number 3925
With built-in Speakers
Features
Drawbars Swell 9 Pitches 2 Sets, Great 9 Piches, Pedals 2 Pitches
Full Polyphony - 91 Tone Wheel Electromechanical - Direct Analog Keying
Vibrato / Chorus - Normal & Soft Volume Control
Touch Response Percussion - 6 Six Pen Leslie Socket
Weighs 425 Lbs.
Hammond A-105 Walnut Serial Number 26773
Features
Drawbars Swell 9 Pitches 2 Sets, Great 9 Piches, Pedals 2 Pitches - Full Polyphony
91 Tone Wheel Electromechanical - Direct Analog Keying - Vibrato / Chorus
Normal & Soft Volume Control - Touch Response Percussion - 6 Six Pen Leslie Socket
Hammond B3 Organ
Mint Condition Cherry Case - Serial No. 92137
Includes Original Bench, Pedals, and Used Leslie 122
Price $6,995.00
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Hammond B3 Organ Mint Mahogany Case - Serial No. 131050
Includes Original Bench, Pedals - 2 speed Leslie 122 Tone Cabinet
1 Year Warranty Parts/90 Days Labor - Fantastic sounding organ
Price $7,995.00
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Hammond B3 Organ
Excellent Condition Walnut Case - Serial No. C 121383
Includes Original Bench, Pedals - Fisher Reverb, Leslie Trem Kit and 2 speed Leslie 122 Tone Cabinet -
Price $7,995.00
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Hammond B3 Organ
Mint Mahogany Case - Serial No. 66030
Includes Original Bench, Pedals
2 speed Leslie 122 Tone Cabinet
Price $7,995.00
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1969 LESLIE 122 - Rebuilt
Price $ 2,200.00
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Technics SX-PR 950 Digital Mini-Grand essemble
Features:
990 Dynamic Sounds
512 Rhytyms
16 Track Sequencer
12 0 watts Stereo Speaker System
Bench and Manual Included
Price 8,495.00
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Yamaha EX-2 Console Organ with Bench, Dual Yamaha TX-3 Tone Cabinets
and Hammond Leslie 122
(Leslie 122 compatible) This is actually an analog synthesizer cleverly posing as an electronic organ! It was an outgrowth of Stevie Wonder's 'Dream Machine' synth, which was used to score the documentary film, 'The Secret Life of Plants.' This Instrument was owned and operated by the late organist/keyboardist, John Seng, who was both a Yamaha Artist and consultant to that firm in the development of the Dream Machine. Its tonal resources are based on Yamaha's PASS technology, also found in the famous CS-80 synthesizer. What makes this instrument unique is that it's individual sounds were 'tweaked' and re-scaled by Yamaha techs to Mr. Seng's personal specs, producing a sound unlike any other production examples of this model. The 1969 Leslie will be included with this Organ (including customized interface) and is in perfect working order. See bottom of page for Leslie photos.
For more information about John Seng click on link below.
Obituary for John Seng
Price $ 8,995.00
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The Hammond organ is an electric organ which was designed and built by Laurens Hammond in April 1935. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a low-cost alternative to the pipe organ, it came to be used for jazz, blues, and to a lesser extent rock music (in the 1960s and 1970s) and gospel music. It was widely used in United States military chapels during the Second World War, and returning soldiers' familiarity with the instrument may have helped contribute to its popularity in the post-war period.
Tone generation
In imitation of a pipe organ, with its banks of pipes in multiple registers, the Hammond Organ used additive synthesis of waveforms from harmonic series to generate its sounds. As in Thaddeus Cahill's earlier Telharmonium, the individual waveforms were made by mechanical 'tonewheels' which rotated beneath electromagnetic pickups. Although they are generally included in the category of electronic organs, strictly speaking, because the waveforms are produced by mechanical tonewheels rather than electronic oscillators, original Hammond organs are electromechanical rather than electronic organs.
The component waveforms can be mixed in varying ratios by using 'drawbars' mounted above the two keyboards. The drawbars, which operate like the faders on an audio mixing board, allow the performer to vary the volume of each notes' fundamental tone, the octave below it, and the octaves and harmonics above it. Other features added to Hammond organs included an electromechanical vibrato and, by the late 1950s, a reverb effect which simulated the reverberation of a large church hall. The distinctive 'key click' that was originally a design flaw rapidly became part of the 'Hammond sound', which modern imitations of the Hammond organ try to reproduce.
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Speakers originally designed by Don Leslie were widely used with the Hammond organs, though at first, Leslie was a competing company that Hammond sought to drive out of business. The Leslie speakers had a rotating horn and a stationary bass speaker with a rotating baffle that produced a vibrato effect. As well, the Leslie speaker cabinets', the valve amplifier gave the Hammond's tone a warm, natural 'overdriven' sound, which could be varied from a mild 'purr' to a heavily overdriven growl. Soon, the Leslie speaker cabinet's signature sound became a de facto requirement for Hammond enthusiasts.
The tonewheel system
The sound reproduction system is based on tonewheels. There are one of these wheels for each of the ninety-one tones the organ can produce. Each key on the keyboard can control up to nine tones, depending on the drawbar settings or drawbar presets. Each tonewheel has a number of bumps along its edge. The number of bumps and the rotation speed of the wheel determines the tone's frequency. A synchronous motor turns the wheels through a set of axles and gears. The gear ratios determine each wheel's rotation speed. The entire gear train rotates continuously. An electromagnetic pickup is placed next to each tone wheel. The bumps in the edge of the tone wheel cause the magnetic field of the pickup to vary, generating a periodic voltage change in the pickup's coil—a tone. The organist selects these tones via the drawbar circuitry and the keyboards while playing the organ. The resulting tones are ultimately amplified and converted to sound by a loudspeaker.
Keyboards and pedalboard
The lightweight construction of the 'waterfall'-style keyboard for the upper manuals allows for very rapid passages to be executed with more ease than on a weighted keyboard, such as a piano or pipe organ.
Most Hammond organs do not have a full, 32-note American Guild of Organists pedalboard going up to a G (3rd leger line of the bass clef) as the top note. Instead, to reduce the cost of the instrument, or the size of the bass pedalboard, 25-note (with a C on the 1st leger line of the bass clef as the top note) or 30-note (with an F on the 2nd leger line of the bass clef as the top note) bass pedalboards are often used. Several Hammond 'concert' models, the RT-2, RT-3 and D-100 had 32-note AGO pedalboards, in addition to a 'Solo Pedal Unit' which provided several 32', 16', 8', 4' voices on the pedal. The solo pedal unit used oscillators, similar to those used in Hammond's 'Solovox'.
The drawbars
The drawbars add harmonics to the original note that each key produces. This is mainly fifths and octaves, and one major third.
| Pipe Pitch | Scale interval | Stop name | Note name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16' | Sub-octave | Bourdon | C (octave under root) |
| 5 1/3 ' | 5th | Quint | G (fifth over root) |
| 8' | Unison | Principal | C (root) |
| 4' | 8th | Octave | C (octave over root) |
| 2 2/3' | 12th | Nazard | G |
| 2' | 15th | Block-flute | C |
| 1 3/5' | 17th | Tierce | E |
| 1 1/3' | 19th | Largiot | G |
| 1 | 22nd | Sifflote | C |
Types of Hammond organs
The model B-3 was, and still is, the most sought-after model, though the C-3 differs only in cosmetics. Hammonds can be divided into two main groups: the 'Console' models such as the B-3, C-3 or A-100 which have two 61 note manuals and the smaller 'Spinet' models that have two 44 note manuals such as the M-3, L-100 and the M-100. Hammonds' serial numbers are not sequential from one production lot to the next, which can make it difficult to determine the date of manufacture of a Hammond organ.
Not all Hammonds used tonewheels and drawbars; the Hammond company produced a number of cheaper organs which used a simpler electronic way of producing sound, such as the model J100, but these instruments do not have the distinctive Hammond sound. By 1975, synthesizer technology had reached the point where the unique Hammond sound could be fairly closely simulated electronically. However, accurate imitation of the Hammond sound with simple electronic circuitry was difficult, because the subtly-changing phase relationships between tonewheels could not be easily replicated.
Playing the Hammond organ
Pianists and synthesizer players who begin playing the Hammond soon realize that authentic performance practice involves a lot more than playing the notes on the keyboard. Hammond players vary the timbre of both manuals in real time through a combination of changing drawbar settings, engaging or disengaging the vibrato/chorus effects or percussion settings, and changing the rotating Leslie speakers' speed setting. As well, performers obtain other effects by increasing the Leslie speakers' volume to add natural overdrive or 'growl' for certain passages, or by switching the Leslie speaker's run motor off for a brief moment, which produces a wobbly pitch-bend effect.
There are playing styles that are specific to the Hammond organ, such as palm glisses, rapid repetition of a single note, tremolo between two notes a third apart (typically the 5th and flat 7th scale degree of the current chord), percussive drumming of the keyboard, and playing a chord on the upper manual, then sliding your hand down to duplicate the chord on the lower manual. Artistic use of the foot-controlled expression pedal, which controlled the Hammond's volume level, and bass pedals are also important facets of the art of the Hammond. Pianists making the transition to Hammond organ have to learn to use their feet to perform basslines on the bass pedalboard. Although the pedalboard can be used in a very simple fashion (for sustained or slow-moving bass notes), professional-level Hammond players typically develop the ability to perform fast-moving basslines on the bass pedalboard.
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'Clones' and emulation devices
Due to the difficulties of transporting the heavy Hammond organ, bass pedalboard (a B-3 organ, bench and pedalboard weighs 425 pounds/193kg) and Leslie speaker cabinets to performance venues, and due to the risk of technical problems that are associated with any vintage electromechanical instrument, there was a strong demand amongst musicians for way of recreating the Hammond sound in a more portable, reliable fashion. Some early emulation devices were criticized for their unrealistic imitation of the Hammond sound, particularly in the way the upper harmonics were voiced, and in the simulation of the rotary speaker effect. Refinements to Hammond emulations eventually led to the development of relatively light electronic keyboard instruments such as the Roland VK-7 and the KORG BX-3 and CX-3 that produce a fairly realistic re-creation of the Hammond tone.
By the 1990s and 2000s digital signal processing and sampling technologies allowed for better imitation of the original Hammond sound, and a variety of electronic organs, emulator devices, and synthesizers provided an accurate reproduction of the Hammond tone. Some sophisticated emulation devices have algorithms that recreate some of the characteristics of the vintage Hammonds, such as the 'crosstalk' or 'leakage' between the tonewheels, and digital simulations of the rotating Leslie speaker cabinet's sound. Nonetheless, an article entitled Clonewheel Heaven in Keyboard Magazine that reviewed electronic simulations of the traditional Hammond sound claimed that some aspects of the vintage electromechanical Hammonds' sound are not accurately reproduced by clones and emulation devices.[1]
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Current interest in Hammond organs
Despite the availability of relatively lower-cost, reliable digital 'clones' and emulation devices, there is still a strong interest in vintage Hammond organs. Even the difficulties of finding spare parts and trained repair personnel for such a complex instrument has not dissuaded musicians from continuing to use vintage Hammonds. Original electromechanical Hammond organs are prized by musicians from jazz, blues, rock, gospel, and other musical styles for the look and feel of their varnished wooden cabinets and 'waterfall'-style keyboards, and their vintage, traditional sound. Although the last electromechanical Hammond organ came off the assembly line in the mid-1970s, it is a testament to their over-engineered design and high-caliber construction that thousands are still in daily use.
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- ↑Clonewheel Heaven 18 cool organ products take aim at the mighty Hammond B-3 and Leslie duo; Keyboard Magazine; https://www.keyboardmag.com/index.htm