I have an old hammond organ, and it sounds like crap. The organs on my roland rd170 pwn it so bad its not funny
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I think I'd pass, if I were you. If it's from the 70's it must be a solidstate organ. I've never heard of anyone considering these collectable.
There were a whole passle of makers of transistor home organs in the 70's. Nowadays they are so obsolete that they are essentially worthless to most folk. I see ads in the classifieds for "Big Organa home organ! $300!"
A month or two later you see the same organ in the $50 and under column. Then it's "Free organ! You hump it outta here!"
I get about 2-3 as freebies this way each year. You can usually scrounge a decent music instrument speaker, a few switches/jacks and miles of shielded and hookup wire. The wood can go in your fireplace.
Now, old TUBE organs are a different story! The kind that take a while for the tubes to warm up! The kind they stopped making in the late 60's.
Hammond TUBE organs are perhaps the most collectable of all. You should do a google and check 'em out. The classic sound that pioneered rock and roll was from the Hammond model B3. It was a hernia maker to lug around but that's the real deal for tone! You often find a setting on some LinePod for a B3. It works about as well as a solid state amp trying to sound like a Plexi stack - that is, lameass.
I think by the time your 70's organ was made Hammond was nearly out of the business and just rebranding solid state units made offshore. I could be wrong. There are lots of sites giving Hammond history that will fill you in far better than I can.
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I think I'd pass, if I were you. If it's from the 70's it must be a solidstate organ. I've never heard of anyone considering these collectable.
There were a whole passle of makers of transistor home organs in the 70's. Nowadays they are so obsolete that they are essentially worthless to most folk. I see ads in the classifieds for "Big Organa home organ! $300!"
A month or two later you see the same organ in the $50 and under column. Then it's "Free organ! You hump it outta here!"
I get about 2-3 as freebies this way each year. You can usually scrounge a decent music instrument speaker, a few switches/jacks and miles of shielded and hookup wire. The wood can go in your fireplace.
Now, old TUBE organs are a different story! The kind that take a while for the tubes to warm up! The kind they stopped making in the late 60's.
Hammond TUBE organs are perhaps the most collectable of all. You should do a google and check 'em out. The classic sound that pioneered rock and roll was from the Hammond model B3. It was a hernia maker to lug around but that's the real deal for tone! You often find a setting on some LinePod for a B3. It works about as well as a solid state amp trying to sound like a Plexi stack - that is, lameass.
I think by the time your 70's organ was made Hammond was nearly out of the business and just rebranding solid state units made offshore. I could be wrong. There are lots of sites giving Hammond history that will fill you in far better than I can.
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